Luciana Algieri

Italian Institute of Technology, Innovation Engineering (Italy)

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Luciana Algieri is at the forefront of flexible sensor technology and contact mechanics, pioneering innovations that bridge materials science with real-world tactile applications. Her most impactful work centers on the development of flexible and wearable piezoelectric tactile sensors, where she has demonstrated how piezoelectric microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) can meet the growing demand for compact, low-power sensing solutions. Her 2023 paper on this topic, which has garnered 25 citations, details the full pipeline from fabrication and characterization to signal processing optimization, highlighting applications spanning robotics and healthcare. Algieri’s contributions are especially notable for advancing flexible devices that maintain high sensitivity and durability. In her more recent 2025 work, she tackles a critical gap in contact mechanics, showing that classical linear models fail to predict contact area behavior under frictional sliding due to material and geometric nonlinearities. This research, which has already earned 4 citations, challenges established paradigms and offers new insights for designing more accurate frictional interfaces. Algieri’s work is essential reading for researchers in tactile sensing, MEMS, and tribology, as she continues to push the boundaries of how we measure and understand physical contact.