Simone Amadori

CV – Simone Amadori

Work Experience

Sustainability and Food Waste Expert | CIHEAM Bari | Oct 2025 – ongoing

• Expert consultant on food waste reduction and prevention strategies in the Mediterranean area
• Led technical design and evaluation of food loss and waste reduction pilots, translating data into actionable results aligned with FAO standards.
• Shaped policy guidance and international knowledge exchange, contributing to guidelines, policy briefs, and high-impact awareness and communication activities.

  Teaching Assistant | University of Bologna | Sep 2024 – ongoing

• Supported the teaching activities of the course “Institutions of Agricultural Economics”

PhD Candidate in Agricultural and Food Sciences | University of Bologna | Nov 2022 – Oct 2025

• Research focus: Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA) applied to agri-food and agri-energy systems;
• Expertise: GHG Accounting (LCA); Non-Financial Sustainability Reporting; EPD, GRI, SBTi
• Collaborated in several European research projects: CARINA [https://www.carina-project.eu/], 4CEMED [https://4cemed.eu/about-4ce-med/], FOLOU [https://www.folou.eu/], foodCIRCUS [https://www.interreg-central.eu/projects/foodcircus/], FIT4REUSE, WATERAGRI [https://wateragri.eu/], FOODE [https://www.wur.nl/en/research-results/chair-groups/research-funded-by-the-ministry-of-lvvn/soorten-onderzoek/kennisonline/foode-food-systems-in-european-cities-1.htm] ;
• Key role in Horizon Europe [https://www.carina-project.eu/] project: developed methodologies for sustainable oilseed feedstocks for the bio-based economy; co-chaired Policy Innovation Labs, facilitating multi-stakeholder co-design; led market research on alternative uses of sustainable feedstocks;
• Applied LCA, S-LCA, and cost–benefit analysis to lignocellulosic biomass valorisation, oilseed valorisation, vertical farming, water reuse, and food loss & waste
• Tools: OpenLCA, SimaPro, Analytica, R.

Visiting Scientist | University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna | Apr 2025 - Jun 2025

• Developed and applied a tool for the environmental and economic assessment of food waste in European collective catering

  Visiting Scientist | BETA Technological Centre at UVic-UCC | Jan 2024 - Jun 2024

• Strengthened expertise in economic–environmental modelling through advanced LCA applications to estimate the impact of food losses.

Research Fellow | University of Bologna | Feb – Oct 2022

• Coordinated socio-economic research on vertical farming (VFARM project);
• Contributed to foresight scenarios for water reuse (FIT4REUSE);
• Supported business model development for urban agriculture (FoodE).

Assistant Project Manager | CISV NGO, Dakar (Senegal) | Jul 2021 – Jun 2022

• Civil service on climate change adaptation and sustainable value chains.
• Supported project design (incl. EU funding applications), event organization, and stakeholder capacity building.

Research Assistant (Erasmus+) | Fachhochschule Südwestfalen (Germany, remote) | Mar – Jun 2021

• Literature review on city-region food systems’ business models (H2020 FoodE).
• Co-authored a chapter in the Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Diets.

Assistant Project Manager | Medici per la Pace NGO, Verona (Italy) | Sep 2019 – Feb 2020

• Project management support in health & social interventions (refugee camps, prisons, rural areas).

Blockchain Advisor | Rovereto “Bitcoin Valley” & fintech start-up Bitboat | 2014 – 2018

• Advised private clients on DCA investment strategies.
• Explored blockchain applications for financial decentralization.

Education & Training

PhD in Agricultural, Environmental and Food Sciences | University of Bologna | 2022-2025

• Dissertation: From Trade-offs to Synergies: Integrating Socio-Economic and Environmental Impacts into Food System Management.

MSc in Global and Local Development | University of Bologna | 2018–2021 | 110 cum laude

• Thesis: Integrating Life Cycle Thinking into Business Models for City-Region Food Systems.

BA in International Studies – Cooperation and Development | University of Trento | 2015–2018 | 110 cum laude

• Thesis: South African Attitudes Towards HIV/AIDS Drugs Importation and Production.

Additional Training & Exchanges

• Absolute Sustainability Summer School, DTU (Kongens Lyngby, Denmark) | 2024
• EIT Innovator Fellowship, Rimini & Siena (Italy), online | 2024
• FoodE Winter School, Bologna (Italy) | 2021
• UNESCO-AICS Exchange, Dakar (Senegal) | 2019
• Erasmus+, Charles University (Prague, Czechia) | 2017–2018

Conferences & Workshops (selected)

• Presenter, SIDEA-SIEA-CESET Conference (Benevento, 2025).
• Presenter, CARINA General Meetings (Poznan, Hammamet).
• Co-chair, CARINA Living Labs (Italy, France).
• Poster presenter, VertiFarm Workshop (Bologna, 2024).
• Speaker, National Food Waste Prevention Day (Rome, 2024).

Teaching & Supervision

• Tutor, “Institutions of Agricultural Economics” course (2024/25).
• Co-supervisor of six MSc theses (2023–2025) on vertical farming, agro-energy, sustainable value chains, and food losses.
• Delivered seminars on blockchain, LCA, sustainable agri-food policies (2023–2025).

Publications (selected)

• Guerrieri, V., Amadori, S., García-Herrero, L., Declercq, R., & Vittuari, M. (2025). Future scenarios for sustainable water management in Mediterranean agricultural systems: a life cycle case study on water reuse in Northern Italy. Journal of Cleaner Production, 530, 146827. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2025.146827
• Petruzzelli, M., Amadori, S., Ihle, R., Fridel, M., & Vittuari, M. (2025). Monitoring nutritional, environmental and social sustainability in school food settings: A three-dimensional score-based assessment tool. Journal of Cleaner Production, 519, 146015. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2025.146015
• Amadori, S., Niero, A., Vicinanza, A., .Orsini, F., & Vittuari, M.*(2024). How to promote sustainable vertical farming? Towards a common science-based definitional framework. European Journal of Horticultural Science, 89(5), 1–12. https://doi.org/10.17660/ejhs.2024/023
• Avellan, T., Canet-Martí, A., Canga, E., Guerrieri, V., Amadori, S., Lavrnić, S., Hartl, M., Nagabhatla, N., Dahal, B., Ghag, K., Mustafa, S., & Klöve, B. (2025). Enhancing sustainability of constructed wetlands for agricultural water and nutrient management practices through social innovations. In Nature-Based Solutions for Urban Sustainability (pp. 271–288). IWA Publishing. https://doi.org/10.2166/9781789065015_0271
• Cirone, F., Pölling, B., Amadori, S., & Vittuari, M. (2022). (Re)building sustainable City Region Food Systems after COVID-19. In Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Diets (pp. 307–317). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003174417-31

Skills

• Research & Analysis: Life Cycle Assessment (environmental, social, economic).
• Technical tools: OpenLCA, SimaPro, Brightway, R, Analytica, MS Office.
• Project Management: EU-funded projects, multi-stakeholder facilitation, reporting.
• Languages: Italian (native), English (C2), French (C1), Spanish (B1), German (B1), Slovak (A2).
• Soft skills: Stakeholder engagement, intercultural communication, public speaking.

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