Education
Mirko Maraldi has a M.Sc. (with honours) in Mechanical Engineering (2006) and a Ph.D. in Fluid machines and energy systems engineering (2010), both from the University of Bologna.
Academic career
After a post-doc at the University of Michigan (2012-2014), he joined DISTAL in 2015, initially as a Research Fellow and later, from 2019 to 2022, as a Senior Assistant Professor. Since May 2022, he is an Associate Professor at DISTAL.
Teaching
Mirko has held different courses on basic and core subjects, both at the graduate and undergraduate level, since the 2017/2018 academic year.
He is currently a teacher of Physics for the Bachelor’s degrees in Animal production, Agricultural technology and Land and agro-forestry technologies, and of Renewable energy systems for the Master's degree in Planning and management of forest territory, landscape and environment.
In the period 2018-2021, he was a teacher of the Mathematics course for students with Additional Learning Requirements in Mathematics at DISTAL.
Research
Mirko has been the P.I. of different research projects commissioned by different companies in the agricultural machinery and mechanisation sector. He has been a member of the RILEM MCB (Mechanical Characterization of Bamboo) Technical Committee since 2023. He was one of the organizers of the symposium entitled "Italian Bamboo Culture - Chapter V", part of All4Climate Italy with the patronage of the Ministry of the Environment, in 2021. He has participated in various conferences and events as an invited speaker and is a referee for several international journals in the agricultural machinery and mechanisation sector.
Academic posts
He participated in a post-secondary planning programme funded by the Ministry of University and Research in 2024.
Member of the Quality Assurance commission of the the Bachelor’s degree in Land and agro-forestry technologies at DISTAL.
