Bachelor's degree in Civil - Environmental Engineering at Marche Polytechnic University.
Master's degree in Environmental Engineering at Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna; MS thesis: Analysis of the environmental issues of Ilva steel plant and partial evaluation of the impact of its emissions in the atmosphere through Calpuff model.
Ph.D. on the valorization of plastic materials through circular economy models, focusing the analysis on plastic packaging applications. Ph.D thesis: System innovation and life cycle thinking: the circularity of plastics.
After a post-doc at the Department of Management and a professional experience at Arpa Emilia Romagna - IPPC unit, I'm actually a junior assistant professor and lecturer at the Centre for Sustainability and Climate Change of Bologna Business School with research on sustainable business models, stratgies and metrics for circular economy and corporate sustainability performance. I collaborated with TU Delft (Technical University of Delft) and KIDV (Dutch Institute for Sustainable Packaging) working on the harmonization of plastic packaging design and extended-producer-responsability schemes in Europe.
In 2023, I'm visiting researcher at the Centre for Sustainability Management of Leuphana University and visiting lecturer at the Université Catholique de Lille.
I'm involved in Research & Innovation projects, including:
- CHEMATSUSTAIN (Implementing Innovative Methods For Safety And Sustainability Assessments Of Chemicals And Materials Particularly At Nano Level In The European Union)
- Multidimensional Model for the Transition of SMEs to the Circular Economy
- Bio-plastics Europe (Developing and Implementing Sustainability-Based Solutions for Bio- Based Plastic Production and Use to Preserve Land and Sea Environmental Quality in Europe)
- The circularity of plastic packaging: towards an European harmonization.
- eCircular - Catalysing a switch to a circular economy through plastic waste prevention
- Circular economy indicators for plastic value chain in manufacturing
- TRIS (Transition region towards industrial symbiosis)
I has been the tutor of the university courses Engineering of Raw Materials, Valorizzazione Materie prime seconde and Resources and Recycling at Bologna University.
I'm supporting the activities promoted by SUN (Symbiosis User Network). I'm the coordinator of the working group Plastics - Eco-efficiency of ICESP (Italian circular economy stakeholder platform). I'm member of the Scientific Committee of SEC (Circular economy stories) and the control room on the circularity of plastics of Emilia Romagna Region - DG ENV.
I'm working with Emila Romagna Region - DG ECONOMY on the sustainability of regional organizations.
I participated in national and European summer school, winter school, workshops and conferences on sustainable waste management, LCA, circular economy and industrial symbiosis.
I'm involved in citizen science activities measuring and monitoring atmospheric pollution.
