Over the last 15 years I've taken complex deep-tech from concept to market — across aerospace, renewable energy and IoT.
A PhD, two startup exits, products placed on board the International Space Station and at the MoMA of New York, research publications and more.
Matteo Stoppa
I'm Matteo Stoppa, an engineering and innovation leader with a background spanning aerospace, applied research, hardware product development and technology entrepreneurship.
My career began in space-related biomedical engineering at Thales Alenia Space, where I helped deliver the first integrated wearable system for space. I then earned a PhD in aerospace medicine and wearable technologies at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia and Politecnico di Torino, with research collaborations involving King's College London, MIT, ESA and Dainese.
Since then I have led multidisciplinary teams and managed R&D and product programs — taking complex hardware from concept through testing, certification, production and market. I've co-founded and run high-tech startups with two successful exits (including Sherlock, acquired by the Viasat Group).
As Chief Innovation Officer at COESA, I currently lead new product and service development, corporate growth strategy, digital transformation and innovation projects — combining technical vision with execution.
COESA srl is an energy-innovation company driving corporate ventures in renewable energy and digital transformation, including the spin-offs KeepTheSun and SPARC.
CER della Morena Frontale Canavesana is a Renewable Energy Community (REC) that brings together citizens, businesses, and local authorities across 11 municipalities in the Canavese area, all served by the "Caluso 1294" primary substation. Members produce and virtually share locally generated clean energy: surplus power is distributed among participants, who receive a GSE incentive, with a share reinvested in local social projects. Membership is free and open even to those without solar panels — established on 15 October 2024.
A circular-economy business project owned by COESA srl — built from scratch to become the first marketplace to buy and sell used photovoltaic panels in the EU.
ERREGI Elettronica designs IoT and mission-critical hardware, from smart-city waste management (PWDP) to defense mission-management platforms (MIMAS).
NOVA Stark developed IoT mesh sensor products — including ARYA for air-quality and wine-production monitoring, and Tappo, the first IoT sensor system for barrique.
Scribit is the maker of the world's first write-and-erase robot, later exhibited at the MoMA of New York and awarded the Red Dot Design Award.
“Technology is the answer, but what was the question?” From university spin-offs to private companies, I designed and managed novel technology solutions for complex challenges.
Sherlock is an IoT anti-theft GPS/cellular tracker for bikes, engineered end-to-end before the company's acquisition by the Viasat Group.
Thales Alenia Space's Biomedical Space Crew Support team, under Mr. Messidoro and Mr. Lobascio, focuses on astronaut health monitoring and space biomedical engineering.
IIT · Politecnico di Torino · King's College London
Designed and tested devices within the Gravity Loading Countermeasure Skinsuit project, in collaboration with MIT, ESA and Dainese. Research into Ultra-Wide Band, smart materials and space-medicine — combining circuit design, piezoresistive/electro-active materials, characterization and system integration.
Politecnico di Torino
The space environment induces important changes in the human body. The Master's thesis focused on a wearable integrated sensor system to monitor biomedical parameters — measuring the negative effects of long permanence in microgravity in order to counteract them.
Compact, mobile, automated recycling of end-of-life PV panels — recovering aluminum, glass, copper and silicon.
OpenPhotovoltaic technology is pivotal for clean energy, but it poses a significant waste-management challenge as panels reach end-of-life. Traditional recycling is costly and environmentally taxing: plants need large spaces, have low scalability and often exceed €2 million to set up.
SPARC introduces a transformative approach:
Europe's first marketplace to buy and sell used photovoltaic panels. +70k panels saved from waste.
OpenIn Italy alone, more than 40 million photovoltaic panels will be decommissioned by 2030 — many still functioning, with an average age of 12 years. KeepTheSun is a marketplace connecting sellers of used PV modules with buyers, extending product life and reducing the demand for new modules.
It is also a media project, owning one of Europe's most advanced databases of PV module and inverter specs (100,000+ records). Each product maps to an indexed page for strong SEO/GEO ranking. In 2026, starting from Italy, KTS opened the French and German markets.
IoT GPS/cellular anti-theft device for bikes — full product design, exited with the Viasat Group.
OpenAn IoT anti-theft device, GPS/cellular-based, for bikes — a perfectly integrated device that hides inside the handlebar.
The world's first write-and-erase robot — exhibited at MoMA NY and Red Dot awarded.
OpenThe world's first write-and-erase robot. From the robot to the markers, every single detail was taken into account.
Watch the factory tour Scribit production line — on VimeoResponsibilities: R&D team management, HW & product optimization, production-line design, mass-production, certification, prototyping & testing.
A skin-compliant piezo-resistive sensor measuring sub-millimeter spinal elongation in microgravity.
OpenMeasuring spinal elongation in microgravity. The challenge was to design a sensor able to measure vertebrae displacement in weightlessness. A silicon piezo-resistive transducer compliant with skin elasticity was developed and connected to a custom read-out and wireless circuit attached directly to the subject's back.
PCB routing produced a compact, rounded (Ø 48 mm) and flat device — components soldered only on top — placed on an ECG electrode. It hosts the read-out, an ultra-low-power wireless module and the battery. It measures displacement < 1 mm, with material elongation up to 140% of nominal length.
Turning ESA's Gravity Loading Countermeasure Skinsuit from passive to active — a wearable load monitor.
OpenTurning the Gravity Loading Countermeasure Skinsuit from a passive to an active space countermeasure. The proof of concept — a wearable adjustable load mechanism — adapts the +Gz force produced by the Skinsuit, with a sensitivity of 0.17 N and variation up to 20 N.
A wearable, wireless Load Monitoring system transmits data in real time to a custom GUI. Results spanned material (custom stretchable piezo-resistive material), electronics (quasi-digital read-out + short-range low-power comms) and implementation into the Skinsuit using conductive thread.
Vehicle-to-Home add-on that turns any wallbox bidirectional — your EV powers your home with AI balancing.
OpenVECTORS (VEhiCle To hOme eneRgy Savings) enables a bi-directional connection between e-vehicle, renewable energy sources and houses — without specific power walls or expensive works. The energy stored in the e-vehicle powers the home seamlessly through an AI algorithm, also allowing efficient grid balancing.
The system is an add-on able to empower a common unidirectional wallbox with the Vehicle-to-Home option.
A waterproof bike fall detector smaller than a cork, alerting automatically via the rider's smartphone.
OpenMate is a waterproof fall detector for bicycles, smaller than a cork. Thanks to an embedded algorithm it can tell whether a violent impact happened and communicate it automatically via the user's smartphone.
After Sherlock, we pushed for a simpler and smaller device — a different product, focused on cyclists' safety. Strict requirements asked for practical solutions, generated at the crossroad between electronics and industrial design.
Hybrid solar modules: thermoelectric generators recover waste heat from PV panels via the Seebeck effect.
OpenIntegrating Thermoelectric Generators (TEG) into photovoltaic panels increases the overall efficiency of solar systems by exploiting not only sunlight converted into electricity, but also heat normally dissipated during operation.
By applying TEGs to the rear side of the panels, part of the thermal gradient is recovered, producing additional energy through the Seebeck effect — improving energy density and thermal management, especially under high solar irradiance.
Per-room energy monitoring and heating/cooling automation — your whole home in a single interface.
OpenEnergy saving within reach. COESA Home is an energy-monitoring and heating/cooling management system for every room, all in a single interface.
It lets users control and automate their home's devices — lights, thermostats, locks, security systems and more — making homes more comfortable, efficient and secure.
Visit coesaenergy.comA wearable integrated sensor garment monitoring vital parameters to counteract microgravity effects.
OpenThe space environment induces important changes in the human body. TESIMS is a wearable integrated sensor system monitoring biomedical parameters to measure and counteract the effects of long permanence in microgravity.
An integrated system of sensors distributed on normal clothing gives a continuous overview of health status. Vital parameters (temperature, pressure, pO₂, ECG, sEMG) enable a "threshold" philosophy with Caution and Warning alarms, while other sensors interface with Virtual Reality for training. The breadboard hosts accelerometers, gyroscopes, a miniaturized ECG (1×25×33 mm), microcontroller and wireless comms — a first step toward E-Inkjet-printed wearables for sports medicine and rehabilitation.
IoT mesh device monitoring air quality and wine production with a multi-sensor, low-power design.
OpenAn IoT mesh device for air quality and wine-production monitoring.
The first IoT sensor system for barrique — wavelength, contactless temperature & humidity sensing.
OpenThe first IoT sensor system for barrique.
Punctual Waste Disposal Pricing — the first IoT upgrade turning existing bins smart for cities.
OpenThe Punctual Waste Disposal Pricing is the first IoT device waste-bin upgrade for Smart Cities. It reuses existing bins with custom wheels and an add-on locking mechanism.
A wearable enclosure with working electrodes for a heartbeat-anomaly detection research prototype.
OpenThe Neuronics research team from Politecnico di Torino developed a hardware prototype able to detect heartbeat anomalies. To present it at fairs and conferences, they needed a wearable enclosure with working electrodes and buttons, and a finished-product look.
Parametric design allowed me to quickly adjust the design, which proved very useful during iteration. Co-designed with Andrea Foschiatti — Industrial Designer & Innovation.
Mission Management System — a unified interface to coordinate air/ground vehicles for rescue ops.
OpenMIMAS (MIssion MAnagement System) is a unified interface managing air and ground vehicles simultaneously for better situational awareness, autonomously updating critical mission status.
The PoC was tested with rescue helicopters, with an upgraded version proposed for the Marina Militare.
Soft-robotics actuators based on ElectroActive Polymers, mimicking natural muscle physiology.
OpenThe entrepreneurial project "EAPtics" was born from the need to exceed traditional robotics. The goal is to design actuation devices based on ElectroActive Polymers, shaped according to bio-inspired geometries to mimic natural muscles — resembling muscular-bundle physiology and allowing selective motor-unit recruitment.
EAPs are soft smart materials behaving as transducers: when stimulated electrically they react with mechanical deformation, and vice versa — a promising solution for "artificial muscles".
Deployable booms for rapid oil-spill containment, with an ad-hoc semi-permeable oil–water membrane.
OpenPIER (Petroleum Innovative Environmental Remediation), a PhD Business International Competition project, aims at producing deployable booms for rapid containment of oil spills from tankers, in harbors and open sea — a fast response where every minute saved means millions of Euros.
PIER introduces an ad-hoc semi-permeable membrane for oil-water separation, innovative reliable materials, and a more efficient storage and shipment solution.
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