People

Jun.-Prof. Dr. Edoardo Milana

Principal Investigator Research Area C and Demonstrators

Project leader of Inflatable Snapping Metamaterials for Next Generation Soft Machines

Cluster of Excellence livMatS, University of Freiburg
FIT – Freiburg Center for Interactive Materials and Bioinspired Technologies
Georges-Köhler-Allee 105, D-79110 Freiburg, Germany

Phone: +49 761 203 95090
Email: edoardo.milana@imtek.uni-freiburg.de

Areas of Expertise

Soft Robotics | Biomimetics | Microfabrication | Mechanics

Projects

Doctoral Researchers (first supervisor)

Xin Li

Postdoctoral Researchers (first supervisor)

Dr. Hugo Oliveira

Publications

Meta-Ori: monolithic meta-origami for nonlinear inflatable soft actuators*
Oliveira, H., Li, X., Frey, J. & Milana, E. (2025). Meta-Ori: monolithic meta-origami for nonlinear inflatable soft actuators. 2025 IEEE 8th International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft), 1-6, doi: 10.1109/RoboSoft63089.2025.11020947
Symmetry Breaking Metamaterial Sleeve Actuators*
Mundial, I. Q., Van Merris, A., Milana, E. & Gorissen, B. (2025). Symmetry Breaking Metamaterial Sleeve Actuators. Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2500157. doi: 10.1002/aisy.202500157
Proprioceptive multistable mechanical metamaterial via soft capacitive sensors*
de Souza Oliveira, H., Khaanghah, N. S., Oetelmans, M., Münzenrieder, N., & Milana, E. (2025). Proprioceptive multistable mechanical metamaterial via soft capacitive sensors arXiv, 2503.23389. doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2503.23389
Electropneumatic Oscillators Using Nonlinear Inflatables*
Elias De Smet, Lorenzo Migliorini, Edoardo Milana,, Paolo Milani, Benjamin Gorissen. (2025). Electropneumatic Oscillators Using Nonlinear Inflatables. Advanced Intelligent Systems. doi: 10.1002/aisy.202400695
Mechanical metamaterial sensors: From design to applications*
de Souza Oliveira, H., Saeedzadeh Khaanghah, N., Elli, G., Petti, L., Cantarella, G., Milana, E., & Münzenrieder, N. (2025). Mechanical metamaterial sensors: From design to applications. Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 58(13), 133002. doi: 10.1088/1361-6463/adade5
A bistable pneumatic actuator based on flexible metamaterials*
A. Navale, R. Gupta, H. de Souza Oliveira,, V. Slesarenko, and E. Milana. "A bistable pneumatic actuator based on flexible metamaterials," ACTUATOR 2024; International Conference and Exhibition on New Actuator Systems and Applications, Wiesbaden, Germany, 2024, pp. 245-248.