Faculty

Giovanni Spagnuolo is Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Salerno. Since January 2016 he is Fellow of the IEEE “For contributions to control of photovoltaic systems”. In 2015 he was included in the list of the Most Influential Minds published by Thomson Reuters. Since 2011 he has been serving as Member of the Steering […]

Nicola Fergnani was born in Ferrara (Italy) in 1985. He was awarded a MS in Energy Engineering in 2010. He is currently adjunct professor for the class of Renewable Energy Sources in Politecnico di Milano. Since 2010 he works as researcher at the Energy Department of Politecnico di Milano in the field of cogeneration, energy efficiency

Alois Bonifacio is associate professor of “chemical foundations of technology” at the University of Trieste, and part of the Teachers Board of the PhD School in Nanotechnology at the same University. His main research interests are about the use of optical spectroscopy for biomedical applications, but as a curious chemist he is also interested in the

Since 2014 Mario Mezzarobba is a Research Fellow at the University of Trieste and has actively taken part in several research projects for the dimensioning, design, prototyping and testing of electromechanical actuators, components and systems. His main research interests are in the field of electrical machine design and optimization, power electronics and control, e-mobility. Lecture: Electric vehicle

Maria Carmela Di Piazza is a Senior Research Scientist of the Italian National Research Council (CNR) 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 several

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