The Materials Research Line includes professors and researchers belonging to the scientific disciplinary group IIND-3/C, who operate within 3 research areas: Advanced Materials, Applied Metallurgy, Steelmaking and Metallurgical Processes. The research area generally concerns the development of new materials and the definition of the changes induced on materials by transformation processes and their conditions of use, with a view to evaluating their sustainability, according to a horizon that includes the synthesis of the material, the use of the component, up to the disposal and recycling of the material itself. The reference materials are structural and functional metal alloys, often studied and optimized to develop processes and products aimed at a greater environmental and social sustainability. For example, modern steels and the many innovations in the steel sector are considered, together with the development of new non-ferrous alloys with improved performance, tuned to innovative processes, for a better use and potential recovery at the end of their useful life. Research activities are also dedicated to the modelling and simulation of materials and production processes, through the study on different length scales: microstructural scale for the definition of physical properties and transformations during processes, mesoscopic scale for the effects on mechanical properties, macroscopic scale for the definition of product design criteria.