Marco Bovo, Civil Engineer, Ph.D. in Strucural Engineering and Hydraulic, is an assistant professor at the Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences at University of Bologna in the Agricultural and biosystems Engineering field, Rural Buildings and Agro-forest Land Planning.
His main research activities deal with: design and calibration of environmental monitoring systems, modelling and analysis of environmental parameters in agricultural, livestock and agro-industrial buildings, thermo-acoustic optimization of building envelopes, LCA and CFD simulations, structural design of civil and rural buildings, PLF systems, energy production from renewable sources.
He is member of the research team of the University of Bologna within the PRIN 2017 research project “Smart dairy farming: innovative solutions to improve herd productivity” (ongoing) and PRIMA Project (Partnership for Research and Innovation in the Mediterranean Area - Euro-Mediterranean cooperation joint programme) “Self-sufficient Integrated Multi-Trophic AquaPonic systems for improving food production sustainability and brackish water use and recycling (SIMTAP)” (2019-2022).
He has taken part in many other research activities, in collaboration with public and private bodies, in order to experiment and implement solutions aimed at enhancing the rural and peri-urban territory and the sustainability of the built system.
He teaches in different graduation programs of the Department of Agri-Food Sciences of the University of Bologna and in post-graduation masters.
He presented several articles in national and international conferences. He authored several publications on national and international journals and conferences proceedings and published various papers on ISI WoS and Scopus Journals. He is reviewer for various international scientific journals.
He supervises several degree theses and student training activities and is co-supervisor of PhD students. He is member of the Italian Association of Agricultural Engineering/Associazione Italiana di Ingegneria Agraria (AIIA), European Society of Agricultural Engineers (EurAgEng), and International Commission of Agricultural Engineering (CIGR).
He has more than ten years of experience as self-employed as civil engineer, with main expertise on building design, seismic evaluation, seismic retrofitting design.
