MSc in hydraulic engineering at the University of Bologna (1993), assistant researcher (2008) and then associate professor (2019) at the Department of Architecture of the University of Ferrara (UNIFE). He lectures Thermodynamics, Heat Transfer, Energetics and Acoustics at the School of Architecture, Industrial Design and Innovation Design in two main courses and two modules of multidisciplinary courses.
Before his academic carrier (1994-2008), he was aggregated professor of Technologies for Environmental Protection at the Faculty of Architecture of UNIFE (2000-2008), and collaborated in research activities with some Italian universities. In particular, he took part at the European project EUREKA-EU487 ENVINET-INFOSYSTEM (1994/95), a project focused on a model-based information and decision support system, planning and managing water resources at catchment basin scale (UNIBO). In 2005/06 he upgraded the former results in the European project W-SAHaRA-EVK1-CT-1999-00041, focused on Stochastic Analysis of Well-Head Protection and Risk Assessment (POLIMI). He was manager and scientific leader of several scientific researches at UNIFE and Bocconi University, e.g. about use of blast furnace syngas in Brayton cycles, strategies for soil remediation in brownfields, thermal exploitation of water pipelines, and thermal benefits of tiled vented roofs in Mediterranean area. At the same time, he was a freelance designer of wastewater treatment plants, landfills, hydraulic networks, river flood control systems, air-conditioning plants and environmental mitigations for public and private clients (e.g. Solvay, Degremont, Ansaldo, Edison, Pirelli RE, and several Italian authorities).
His research topics are mainly focused in developing and applying numerical models, especially CFD for solving heat and mass transfer phenomena, and testing in lab the numerical results. He is author of several technical papers on international journals and conferences, reviewer for international journals focused on renewable energy and heat transfer, and project reviewer for EPSRC (UK) and MIUR (Italy).
He was rewarded with the best paper award of International Journal of Low-Carbon Technologies (University Oxford Press, 2011), and was invited as Keynote Speaker at the International Heat Transfer Symposium and Heat Powered Cycle Conference (Nottingham, 2016), Int. Conf. of Sustainable Energy and Technology (Wuhan, 2018; Kuala Lumpur, 2019); Int. Conf. on Energy Photoelectron Technology (EPT2020), (Hubei University of Technology, online, 2020).
He was member of the Scientific Board of Int. Conf. of Alternative Energy Sources, Materials And Technologies (AESMT18, AESMT19). He is member of the editorial board of the Int. J. FUTURE CITIES & ENVIRONMENT (2363-9075), and guest editor for a special issue on APPLIED THERMAL ENGINEERING.
He was/is scientific leader of UNIFE’s partnership in the following competitive project:
_European project LIFE HEROTILE (High Energy savings in building cooling by ROof TILEs shape optimization toward a better above sheathing ventilation)
_European project H2020 IDEAS (Novel building Integration Designs for increased Efficiencies in Advanced Climatically Tunable Renewable Energy Systems)
_Regional project POR-FESR 2014-2020 HEGOS (Nuove pompe di calore per l'Harvesting EnerGeticO in Smart buildings)
_Regional project POR-FESR 2014-2020 CLIWAX (Materiali a cambio di fase per l’harvesting energetico)
He was awarded from the European Communitee of the Seal of Excellence for the proposal submitted in Horizon 2020’s Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions n.794118: Coupled Flat GHE Investigation of a dual air and ground source heat pump coupled with a novel Flat-Panel Ground Heat Exchanger for energy harvesting in smart buildings.
He was member of the Management Committee in the European TUD COST Action TU0802 NeCoE-PCM (Next generation cost effective phase change materials for increased energy efficiency in renewable energy systems in buildings), and in the Action TU1401 RELY (Renewable energy and landscape quality).
He is founder and leader of the Laboratory to Advance in Ground heat exchange (LAG), where lab and field studies are carried out on the geothermal energy. LAG is a research unit belonging to the TekneHub lab of UNIFE, which is one of the four laboratories of the Techno-pole of UNIFE, within the European Building Platform and part of the High Technology Network of the Emilia Romagna region (HTN-RE). Actually, the main research activity is focused on dual-source heat pumps for space cooling and heating and the usage of phase change materials (PCMs) to improve the performance of horizontal and shallow ground heat exchangers. Especially, LAG is testing a novel prototype of horizontal ground heat exchanger, which is an European patent of UNIFE (EP2418439 - Geothermal system), as coupled with a standard air-source heat pumps by means of an innovative control unit.
He carried out an Erasmus Staff Teaching Mobility period at the Institute For Sustainable Energy, University of Malta (2014), a three-month academic visit at the University of Nottingham (2015), and a seminar about ground source heat pumps at the University of Science and Technology of China (2018).
His main international relationships involve colleagues at the University of Nottingham, Technical University of Sofia, Istanbul Technical University, University of Malta, Akita University, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, University of Science and Technology of China.
He was member of the Research Council of the University of Ferrara in 2012-2014 and 2014-2016, Academic Senate (2018-19) and of several commissions at the Department of Architecture.
He is member of UIT (Italian Union of Thermal Fluid-dynamics), AIGE (Italian Association for Energy Management), AIPT (Italian Association Thermal Properties), and WSSET (World Society of Sustainable Energy Technologies, UK).
Before his academic carrier (1994-2008), he was aggregated professor of Technologies for Environmental Protection at the Faculty of Architecture of UNIFE (2000-2008), and collaborated in research activities with some Italian universities. In particular, he took part at the European project EUREKA-EU487 ENVINET-INFOSYSTEM (1994/95), a project focused on a model-based information and decision support system, planning and managing water resources at catchment basin scale (UNIBO). In 2005/06 he upgraded the former results in the European project W-SAHaRA-EVK1-CT-1999-00041, focused on Stochastic Analysis of Well-Head Protection and Risk Assessment (POLIMI). He was manager and scientific leader of several scientific researches at UNIFE and Bocconi University, e.g. about use of blast furnace syngas in Brayton cycles, strategies for soil remediation in brownfields, thermal exploitation of water pipelines, and thermal benefits of tiled vented roofs in Mediterranean area. At the same time, he was a freelance designer of wastewater treatment plants, landfills, hydraulic networks, river flood control systems, air-conditioning plants and environmental mitigations for public and private clients (e.g. Solvay, Degremont, Ansaldo, Edison, Pirelli RE, and several Italian authorities).
His research topics are mainly focused in developing and applying numerical models, especially CFD for solving heat and mass transfer phenomena, and testing in lab the numerical results. He is author of several technical papers on international journals and conferences, reviewer for international journals focused on renewable energy and heat transfer, and project reviewer for EPSRC (UK) and MIUR (Italy).
He was rewarded with the best paper award of International Journal of Low-Carbon Technologies (University Oxford Press, 2011), and was invited as Keynote Speaker at the International Heat Transfer Symposium and Heat Powered Cycle Conference (Nottingham, 2016), Int. Conf. of Sustainable Energy and Technology (Wuhan, 2018; Kuala Lumpur, 2019); Int. Conf. on Energy Photoelectron Technology (EPT2020), (Hubei University of Technology, online, 2020).
He was member of the Scientific Board of Int. Conf. of Alternative Energy Sources, Materials And Technologies (AESMT18, AESMT19). He is member of the editorial board of the Int. J. FUTURE CITIES & ENVIRONMENT (2363-9075), and guest editor for a special issue on APPLIED THERMAL ENGINEERING.
He was/is scientific leader of UNIFE’s partnership in the following competitive project:
_European project LIFE HEROTILE (High Energy savings in building cooling by ROof TILEs shape optimization toward a better above sheathing ventilation)
_European project H2020 IDEAS (Novel building Integration Designs for increased Efficiencies in Advanced Climatically Tunable Renewable Energy Systems)
_Regional project POR-FESR 2014-2020 HEGOS (Nuove pompe di calore per l'Harvesting EnerGeticO in Smart buildings)
_Regional project POR-FESR 2014-2020 CLIWAX (Materiali a cambio di fase per l’harvesting energetico)
He was awarded from the European Communitee of the Seal of Excellence for the proposal submitted in Horizon 2020’s Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions n.794118: Coupled Flat GHE Investigation of a dual air and ground source heat pump coupled with a novel Flat-Panel Ground Heat Exchanger for energy harvesting in smart buildings.
He was member of the Management Committee in the European TUD COST Action TU0802 NeCoE-PCM (Next generation cost effective phase change materials for increased energy efficiency in renewable energy systems in buildings), and in the Action TU1401 RELY (Renewable energy and landscape quality).
He is founder and leader of the Laboratory to Advance in Ground heat exchange (LAG), where lab and field studies are carried out on the geothermal energy. LAG is a research unit belonging to the TekneHub lab of UNIFE, which is one of the four laboratories of the Techno-pole of UNIFE, within the European Building Platform and part of the High Technology Network of the Emilia Romagna region (HTN-RE). Actually, the main research activity is focused on dual-source heat pumps for space cooling and heating and the usage of phase change materials (PCMs) to improve the performance of horizontal and shallow ground heat exchangers. Especially, LAG is testing a novel prototype of horizontal ground heat exchanger, which is an European patent of UNIFE (EP2418439 - Geothermal system), as coupled with a standard air-source heat pumps by means of an innovative control unit.
He carried out an Erasmus Staff Teaching Mobility period at the Institute For Sustainable Energy, University of Malta (2014), a three-month academic visit at the University of Nottingham (2015), and a seminar about ground source heat pumps at the University of Science and Technology of China (2018).
His main international relationships involve colleagues at the University of Nottingham, Technical University of Sofia, Istanbul Technical University, University of Malta, Akita University, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, University of Science and Technology of China.
He was member of the Research Council of the University of Ferrara in 2012-2014 and 2014-2016, Academic Senate (2018-19) and of several commissions at the Department of Architecture.
He is member of UIT (Italian Union of Thermal Fluid-dynamics), AIGE (Italian Association for Energy Management), AIPT (Italian Association Thermal Properties), and WSSET (World Society of Sustainable Energy Technologies, UK).
