Environmental engineer with a PhD in Sanitary Engineering. Currently Associate Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of Politecnico.I coordinate the AWARE (Assessment on WAste and REsources) group, aimed at researching on waste prevention, technologies for recovery and disposal of solid waste and of residues, integrated waste management, flue gas treatment technologies for industrial plants, definition of scenarios for emission reduction, as well as Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). I teach “Solid waste management and treatment” and “Climate change mitigation” Master Courses at Politecnico di Milano, as well as “Principles of technologies for environmental protection” at L. Bocconi University. Co-founder and member of the Scientific Board of the “MatER” Research Center, established within the LEAP laboratory in Piacenza.Associate Editor of the “Waste Management & Research” Journal since May 2015.Founder of AIAT (the Italian environmental engineers associations).Member of ISWA (International Solid Waste Association), of GITISA (the Italian network of Sanitary-Environmental Engineering) and of the Italian LCA network.I have served in the Environmental Impact Assessment Committee at the italian Ministry of the Environment.