Federica Cappelluti

Federica Cappelluti is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications (DET) at Politecnico di Torino (Polytechnic University of Turin). She serves as the Director of the Open Science Study Center, a Member of the Coordinating Committee of the Polito for Social Affairs, and a Scientific Advisor for the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) Association. Her academic roles include leadership in

• Non-commercial collaborative agreements (Italian Computing and Data Infrastructure, Italian Association for Open Science)
• Research projects funded by EU and national grants (FEDRA, CLAIRE, Skills4EOSC, MIRACLE, TFQD)

Research Interests: Federica specializes in Nanophotonics, Optoelectronics, Photovoltaics, and Semiconductor Device Modeling. Her work focuses on

• Radiative cooling for solar cells
• Perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells
• High-speed semiconductor devices
• Applied photonics for energy efficiency

Article Trends: Recent publications highlight her innovations in

• Photovoltaic radiative cooling using cement-based materials
• 3-terminal tandem solar cell architectures
• Quantum dot and intermediate band solar cell engineering
• Thermal management of multi-junction cells
• Modeling and simulation of photonic devices
• Cost-effective photovoltaic materials

Scientific Awards: She holds an

• International Patent for Cement composites for radiative cooling (co-inventor with Matteo Cagnoni)

Advising and Grants: Federica supervises PhD students in

• Artificial Intelligence (Giacomo Fantino)
• Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering (Antonio Fronteddu, Pietro Testa)
• Completed PhD research (Gemma Giliberti: 3-Terminal Perovskite/Silicon Tandems)

She leads competitive projects including

• FEDRA: FAIR data lake for research assessment
• CLAIRE: Perovskite/silicon solar cells
• MIRACLE: Photonic Metaconcrete for energy savings

Labs and Teams: She collaborates with the Microwave and Optoelectronics Group (MOG) at DET and contributes to the PhotoNext Interdepartmental Center for applied photonics. Her work intersects with Nexa Center for Internet & Society in open science initiatives.