Matteo Mura, PhD, is Associate Professor in Management Engineering at the Department of Management of the University of Bologna and Director of the Center for Sustainability and Climate Change at Bologna Business School, University of Bologna. He is Visiting Fellow at the Cranfield School of Management's Center for Business Performance and Teaching Associate at Warwick Business School. He is currently Scientific Director of the Master in Sustainability Transition Management and of the Executive Master in Sustainability and Business Innovation at the Bologna Business School.
He conducts research on the design and implementation of corporate performance measurement and management systems, with a particular focus on measuring the sustainability of businesses and industrial ecosystems.
He collaborates with research centers in the United Kingdom (Cranfield University, Warwick University, Heriot-Watt University, York University), in Switzerland (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne - EPFL), in Germany (Wuppertal Institute) and in Brazil (Santa Caterina State University ), coordinated research projects funded by the European Commission, the Italian Ministry for the Environment and important corporate groups.
He has published 42 articles in academic journals, 34 of which in journals indexed in international databases, 7 book chapters, 4 of which in international volumes, and has been a speaker at over 40 national and international conferences (of which 14 invited lectures, including the European Commission). He sits on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management and has received national and international prizes and awards for his research activity. He has published articles and given interviews for newspapers such as Sole24ore, Corriere della Sera, Repubblica and, from 2017 to 2019, edited the “Economia Giusta” dossier of Affari & Finanza – Repubblica.
He has been teaching in PhD prorams, Bachelor's and Master's degree courses, MBA and Executive Education, in Italy and abroad.
In 2021 he co-founded B-PLAS s.b.r.l., a spin-off of the University of Bologna engaged in the design and construction of plants for the production of bioplastic from industrial sludge.
