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
Full Professor in Sanitary and Environmental Engineering. Lecturer of “Basics of Sanitary and Environmental Engineering” and “Waste Management and Role in Climate Change”
2016 - 2022
University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy
Programme Chair
Chair of the Undergraduate and Master’s programs in Environmental Engineering
2000 - 2020
University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy
Research Fellow, Associate Professor
Research Fellow (2000-2006) and Associate Professor (2006-2020) in Sanitary and Environmental Engineering.
2008 - present
Various
Associate Editor
Associate Editor for international journals:
• Waste Management (2008-15, 2020-present)
• Heliyon (2016-19)
• Detritus (2018-present)
• J. Environmental Management (2017-21)
Main research interest
Treatment and recycling of residues from thermal waste treatment, anaerobic digestion of organic wastes, degradability of bioplastics, accelerated carbonation of alkaline residues, environmental behaviour of waste materials, treatment of contaminated dredged sediment.
Most relevant projects
• Project Multi-risk science for resilient communities under a changing climate, PNRR Next Generation EU (2022-2025).
• Project EU LIFE12 “Sediment ElectroKinetic REmediation Technology for heavy metal pollution removal” (2014-17).
• Project EU “Co-ordinated Approach for Sediment Treatment and Beneficial Reuse in Small Harbours Networks” (2009-13).
Publications
>150 scientific papers and book chapters
Awards / Other
• Clarivate Analytics recognition for a highly cited paper in 2019.
• Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing Recognition (Waste Manage. 2003; Chemosphere 2016; Waste Manage. 2017; J. Env. Manage. 2018).
