Faculty

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

Filippo Beltrami is Senior Researcher at the Institute for Renewable Energy of Eurac Research (Bolzano, Italy), with experience in writing and managing EU-funded projects. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics and Management from the University of Padua. He spent a visiting research period at Loughborough University (UK). He has collaborated with the European Commission as Independent

Patrizio Manganiello is Associate Professor and researcher in photovoltaic energy systems at Hasselt University, imec and EnergyVille, Belgium. His expertise covers PV technology, electronics for photovoltaics and system-level analysis, with a focus on modelling, monitoring, reliability and sustainability. His work aims to understand and improve solar energy systems, from device-level behaviour to system design and

Emanuele Ogliari is Associate Professor at the Department of Energy, Politecnico di Milano, Italy where he teaches Electrical Engineering and Photovoltaic-based Systems Lab. He has a M.Sc. in electrical engineering, and he received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Politecnico di Milano, Italy, in 2016. He has been working on photovoltaic power plant

Carlo L. Bottasso holds the Chair of Wind Energy at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), where he is also the founding director of the Wind Energy Institute. He received a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from Politecnico di Milano in Italy, where he also started his academic career, raising to the rank of full professor before moving

Walter Zamboni is an associate professor of electrical engineering with the Università degli studi di Salerno (UNISA), Italy. He graduated and got his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy (2001, 2004). In 2003, he was a Stager with CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, and a Visiting Scientist with the Superconductivity

Marco Giusti is an engineer by profession, a scout by training, a popularizer and activist by passion. He has been working for over 30 years in a energy utility (Agsm Aim), for many years in the role of director of “Engineering and Research”, the department that creates and uses numerical systems and models of energy network