Filippo Mangolini

Filippo Mangolini is an Associate Professor at The University of Texas at Austin, holding the Cockrell Family Fellowship #4 within the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Cockrell School of Engineering. His research focuses on understanding surface reactivity and structural transformations of materials under extreme conditions, with applications in tribology, energy, and nanotechnology.

Education: M.Sc. (2006) in Materials Science from Politecnico di Milano, Italy; Ph.D. (2011) in Materials Science from ETH Zurich, Switzerland. Postdoctoral positions included University of Pennsylvania (2011-2015) and University of Leeds (2015-2017). Awards include the ASME Rising Star (2024), President’s Associates Teaching Excellence Award (2025), and Marie Curie Fellowships (2014-2016).

Research interests span advanced materials engineering, clean energy, and nanoscale phenomena. Key projects involve designing lubricants, studying amorphous carbon films, and developing environmental X-ray spectroscopy tools. Collaborative grants include NASA Early Stage Innovations (2024) and NSF funding (2023).

Labs/Teams: Leads the Mangolini Research Group (Laboratory for Applied Surface Science) at UT Austin, mentoring students like Jimmy Yan (PhD 2025) and Hsu-Ming. Recent work includes studies on ionic liquid microcapsules, Zr-based bulk metallic glasses, and MoS₂ coatings.