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)
Postdoctoral Researchers (first supervisor)
Publications
- 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.org/10.1002/aisy.202400695 - Mechanical metamaterial sensors: From design to applications* (accepted)
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. 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.