IWWG - International Waste Working Group is a non-profit association that aims to provide a forum to encourage economic and ecological waste management world-wide and to promote scientific advancement in the field
Managing the courses of Circular and Sustainable Waste Management and of Environmental Sanitary Engineering. Implementing research and education in the area of environmental engineering since the completion of the PhD in 1997.
Director of the CEWMS- study center on Circular Economy of Waste, Materials and Sustainability.
Coordinator of the National phD course in Scientific Technological and Social Methods Enabling Circular Economy.
2002 - 2018
University of Padova (IT)
Assistant Professor
Managing the courses of Environmental Sanitary Engineering and Wastewater treament
1999 - 2002
CISA, Environmental Engineering Center, IT
Environmental consultant
1999 - 2002
University of Padova (IT)
Postdoctoral fellowship
Main research interest
Circular economy of waste and materials; Waste management in developing countries; Waste and wastewater integrated management
Most relevant projects
2023-2026, NBFC_National Biodiversity Center (Next Generation EU funds)
– Waste and Health
– Ecosystem valorisation of circular economy business
2023-2026, MICS-Mady in Italy Circular & Sustainable (Next Generation EU funds)
– Waste End, closing the loop of circulae new materials
2023-2026, Treatment & Recovery of ASR, funded by MASE – Italian Minister of the Environment and Energy Security
2023-2026, TEAPOTS (agriculTurE wAste PyrOlysis and Thermocomposting for renewable energy in Sustainable agri-food sector) -Horizon Europe, Project 101118296
Publications
>80 scientific papers and book chapters
Awards / Other
Best paper award – Developing Countries section, Sardinia Symposium 2017
Circular Economy award, UNISMART- UNIPD