Education
- Laurea (cum laude) in Chemical
Engineering from the Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di
Bologna, Bologna, Italy, on October 26th, 2004.
- Dottorato di Ricerca (Ph.D.) in “Chemical,
Environmental and Safety Engineering” Alma Mater Studiorum -
Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy, (2005 - 2007).
- Visiting PhD student at the Department of Process
Engineering & Applied Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax,
NS, Canada (march-august 2007). Supervisors: Prof. Paul R. Amyotte
and Prof. Faisal I. Khan
Positions
2008 –
2010
Research Grant (“Assegno di Ricerca”) at the Depatment of Chemical
Engineering (DICMA) of the University of Bologna.
november 2010 – september 2014 Researcher
(“Ricercatore”) at the Faculty of Engineering of the Alma Mater
Studiorum - University of Bologna. Area: Chemical Plants
september 2014 – present Associate Professor at the
Departement of Civil, Chemical, Environmental and Materials
Engineering of the Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna.
Area: Chemical Plants and Loss Prevention
Teaching
2004 - present Teaching and seminaries in Bachelor and Master courses: “Equipment and plant design ”, “Chemical plants”,
“Unit operations”, “Industrial ecology”, “Reliability and safety in
process industry”
2005 Formation
of Kazakh engineers, sponsored by ENI Corporate University and
Tecnomare: tutor
2006-2007 Specialization course
(Master Universitario di II livello) in “Plant design for off-shore
oil fields”, sponsored by ENI divisione Exploration &
Production, ENI Corporate University and Tecnomare, at University
of Bologna: tutor
2008-2015 Specialization course
(Master Universitario di II livello) in “HSE&Q Systems
Engineering and Management”, sponsored by ENI divisione E&P,
ENI Corporate University, at QUINN and University of Pisa:
tutor
2008-2015 Specialization course
(Master Universitario di II livello) in “Design of Oil&Gas
plants”, sponsored by ENI Corporate University, ENI divisione
Exploration & Production and Tecnomare, at University of
Bologna: tutor for safety and plant design courses
2023 Visiting professor at the Institute of Process and Particle Engineering, Technical University of Graz, Graz, Austria
Research
Main research topics:
1) Sustainability implementation in plant and process
design
- Development of indicators (KPI) and metrics, based
on flow-sheet analysis, for the assessment of the sustainability
profile of industrial processes
- Development of advanced methods for normalization
and aggregation of indicators, aimed at the integrated
implementation of sustainability strategies in process and plant
design
- Sustainability assessment of suppy chains for bio-fuels from
vegetable biomasses
- Design of storage and transfer systems for liquid hydrogen
2) Quantitative risk assessment, resilience, and implementation of inherent safety strategies in process plants
- Development of quantitative methods for the
assessment of inherent safety profile in process and plant design
(“conceptual” and “basic design”), based on the analysis of
expected consequences of potential accidents
- Development of strategies and methods for the
implementation of inherent safety in plant layout design
- Safety analysis for land-use planning in major risk
areas
- Safety analysis of hazardous substances, with
particular reference to hazardous product formation in runaway
reactions and out-of-control conditions
- Analysis and modelling of the performance of
passive fire protection (fireproofing) materials in preventing
escalation chains (domino effect)
- Identification of hazards from malicious attacks (security and cyber-security) to process plants
Co-author of several contributions to national and international
peer-reviewed journals and technical conferences.
Participation in ongoing and completed research
grants
2004 - 2005 MIUR (Italian Ministry of
Education and Research), PRIN 2004, National research project (6
partners): "Development of an integrated approach to safety,
sustainability and environmental impact assessment of brominated
flame retardants"
2008 - 2009 MIUR (Italian Ministry of
Education and Research), PRIN 2007, National research project (4
partners): "Development of Key Performance Indicators for the
introduction of safety and sustainability drivers in process
design"
2009 European Commission, Joint Research Centre,
IPSC: “Description of accident scenarios, failure frequencies, risk
assessment data and separation distances for Land-Use Planning
evaluations around Seveso plants”.
2008 -2013 European Community , VII
Framework Program, Large-scale research project (80 partners):
"Integ-Risk: Early Recognition, Monitoring and Integrated
Management of Emerging, New Technology Related Risks". Sub-Project
2: "Emerging Risk Management Framework"
2012-2016 European
Commission, 7th Framework Programme - Nanoscience,
Nanotechnologies, Materials and New Production Technologies. Small
or medium scale focused research project: “TOSCA – Total Operations
Management for Safety Critical Activities”,
FP7-NMP-2012-SMALL-6
2012-2016 European Commission, 7th
Framework Programme – SEC-2012.1.5-1 Chemical, Biological,
Radioactive, Nuclear and Explosive Demo Phase II,
FP7-SEC-2012.1.5-1 SEC-2012.1.5-1: “EDEN – End-user driven DEmo for
cbrNe”, 2013-15, Grant agreement no: 313077
2016-2019 Italian Ministry of Economic Developement (MISE), «Project Indicators»
2018-2020 INAIL - Integrated Management of Safety and Security Synergies in Seveso Plants (SAF€RA 4STER)
2020-2021 Italian Ministry of Economic Developement (MISE), «Security in offshore O&G plants»
2023-2025 Piano Nazionale di Ripresa e Resilienza (PNRR) - PE7 - «SEcurity and RIghts In the CyberSpace (SERICS)»
2023-2025 Piano Nazionale di Ripresa e Resilienza (PNRR) - «Ecosistema Territoriale di Innovazione dell’Emilia-Romagna (ECOSISTER)»
2023-2025 European Commission - «Enhancing safety of liquid and vaporised hydrogen transfer technologies in public areas for mobile applications» (ELVHyS), ID: 101101381
2024-2026 European Commission - «Novel Insulation Concepts For LH2 Storage Tanks» (NICOLHy), ID: 101137629
2025-2026 Ministero dell'Università e della Ricerca (MIUR) - PRIN Projects - "Resilience against Cyber Threats for Plant Integrity and Worker Safety in Process Industry"
Scientific services
Referee for the journals:
- Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research (ACS
Publications)
- Environmental Science & Technology (ACS Publications)
- Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries
(Elsevier)
- Safety Science (Elsevier)
- Process Safety Progress (Wiley InterScience)
- Journal of Environmental Management (Elsevier)
Memberships
2005 – present Member of the Professional
Body of Engineers (Albo professionale degli Ingegneri), Province of
Bologna, Italy
