Daniele Vivona

Assistant Professor

Dr. Daniele Vivona is an Assistant Professor in the School of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Manufacturing Engineering at the University of Connecticut and Center for Clean Energy Engineering. His research focuses on understanding atom-level energy conversion processes to construct design solutions for ion transport and interfacial phenomena in energy materials, with the goal of advancing next-generation energy conversion devices, with a focus on electrochemical cells. He combines physics-based modeling, atomistic simulations, and data-driven approaches to design materials and technologies across multiple length and time scales.

Daniele received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from MIT, where he was a MathWorks Mechanical Engineering Fellow, a Rohsenow Graduate Fellow, and a member of the MIT Society of Energy Fellows. He holds B.Sc. and M.S. degrees in Energy Engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of Milan and an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Connecticut.