Emanuele Colucci

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About

Emanuele Colucci is a pioneering researcher at the intersection of biofabrication, living materials, and sustainable design. His work focuses on harnessing the unique biological properties of living organisms — particularly fungal mycelium — to engineer next-generation materials that can self-heal, adapt, and respond dynamically to environmental stimuli, capabilities that have long distinguished natural systems like bone and plant tissue from their synthetic counterparts. Colucci's most celebrated contribution is his groundbreaking 2022 research on three-dimensional printing of mycelium hydrogels into living complex materials, a study that has already garnered nearly 200 citations — a remarkable milestone for work so recently published. This research addresses a longstanding challenge in materials science: translating the emergent biological properties of living systems into programmable, manufacturable forms. By developing a bioprinting framework that preserves mycelium viability through the fabrication process, Colucci and collaborators opened new pathways toward truly living architectures with real-world applications in medicine, construction, and sustainable packaging. His scholarship is distinctly interdisciplinary, bridging mycology, materials engineering, and digital fabrication, positioning him as an influential voice shaping the rapidly evolving field of living materials design.