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Maria Carmela Di Piazza is a Research Director at the Italian National Research Council (CNR), based at the Institute of Marine Engineering (INM), where she held the position of Head of the Palermo branch of the Institute. She was an adjunct professor at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Palermo. She has led […]

Mariangela Scorrano is Assistant Professor in Applied Economics at the University of Trieste, Italy. Her research interests focus on transport economics and policy, transport demand modelling, discrete choice modelling, total cost of ownership, and the integration between electric mobility and renewable energy sources. Lecture: the total cost of ownership as a decision-making metric The total cost

Giovanni Carrosio, sociologist of the University of Trieste. He deals with territorial inequalities and local development, investigating how the ecological transition impacts on social and territorial cohesion. Recently has started to deal with eco-welfare, in order to integrate the readings on the environmental crisis with those on the fiscal crisis of the state. On these

Lorenzo De Vidovich is a sociologist, research fellow at the University of Trieste, and PhD in urban studies at the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies at Politecnico di Milano. His main fields of interest are energy transition, energy poverty, and welfare policies, with a particular reference to suburbs and peripheries. He is also investigating the

Andrea Mio is contract professor of process simulation and dynamics of chemical processes at the University of Trieste. After his graduation in Materials and Process Engineering, he received a PhD in Nanotechnology at the University of Trieste, working on the development of a methodology for the sustainability evaluation of batch processes. His last research interests focus

Dr. Annalisa Savaresi is Associate Professor of International Environmental Law at the Center for Climate Change, Energy and Environmental Law, University of Eastern Finland, where she serves as Director for the Joint Nordic Master Programme in Environmental Law. She furthermore holds a senior research post at the University of Stirling, UK and visiting professorships at the

Elena Barbera is Assistant Professor (RTDb) at the Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Padova. After her graduation in Chemical and Process Engineering, she earned a PhD in Industrial engineering focusing on optimization of microalgae production for industrial applications. Her research interests focus on process simulation and techno-economic analysis of chemical and biochemical processes, including microalgae

Guido Piccoli, transport economist graduated from the University of Trieste, founding partner and managing director of ALOT S.r.l. (Brescia), is an international mobility expert, with over 30 years of experience in freight transport, logistics and port operations. Complementary to transport issues, he has been working for the past 15 years in the fields of digital

Paul Ekins has a Ph.D. in economics from the University of London and is Professor of Resources and Environmental Policy at the UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources, University College London. He was a Member of the European Resource Efficiency Platform and Vice-Chair of the previous European Environment Commissioner’s Expert Economists’ Group on resource efficiency. He

Francesco Lo Franco received his M.Sc. (cum laude) in Electrical Engineering from the University of Bologna in 2019 and his Ph.D. in Automotive for Intelligent Mobility in 2023. He has been involved in academic and industrial research on electric vehicle charging, renewable energy integration, and energy storage systems. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher at