Engineering and Authorization of: - Waste to Energy plants through Anaerobic Digestion. Turn wastes (e.g. the organic fraction of municipal solid waste) and byproducts (e.g. from the agro-industry) to Electricity and/or bioMethane/bioLNG;- Composting plants. Turn solid waste (e.g. sludges coming from wastewater treatment plants, the organic fraction of municipal solid waste, etc.) to fertilizers to be used in sustainable farming;- Wastewater treatment plants, both industrial and municipal;- Waste Sorting plants for the recovery of dry fractions (paper, plastics, glass, metals).Industrial R&D in the fields of environmental biotechnology, waste treatment, process automation.

Promoter and Contact person for the Social Innovation project “STRID - Thermographic Diffuse Fire Detection Service”, as for the Italian D.D. 5/7/2012 – MIUR n. 391/Ric “National Smart Cities” and subsequent integrative modifications.The aim of STRID is to realize an innovative land protection service for rural fires, making use of a highly technological system able to detect fires right after their ignition, in order to timely alert the local intervention authority and avoid the exposure of communities to hazards.The STRID project, with the Italian D.D. 13/2/2014 – MIUR n. 428/Ric, was linked to the National Smart Cities project “CLARA - Cloud platform for LAndslide Risk Assessment”, to which the following Social Innovation projects were linked as well:- “Raccolta ed analisi di informazioni dalla Rete per l'aggiornamento di mappe di rischio”- “SALEx - Smart Agriculture for Local Emissions exchange”The partners involved in CLARA are:- Università degli Studi di Enna “Kore”- Università degli Studi di Catania- CNR – Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche- Meridionale Impianti SpA- Etna Hitech ScpA- Consorzio ITER- Sidercom srl- OGS – Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale- Consorzio TeRN- Geosystems srl- Rotas Italia srl- IDS Ingegenria dei Sistemi SpA- Sinergis srl- Tecno In SpA- Geostudi Astier srl- Hera SpA- Ingegnerie Toscane srlhttp://www.etnahitech.com/product/clara/

Feed material and chemicals for anaerobic digestion (biogas/biomethane) and wastewater treatment plants.

Scale-up the production of an anaerobic mixed culture able to reductively dechlorinate PCE, TCE, cis-1,2-DCE, VC and 1,2-DCA.

Early Stage Researcher for GOODWATER Initial Training Network (ITN) on the development of biostimulation and bioaugmentation strategies for anaerobic degradation of volatile organic chlorinated compounds: research on the industrial exploitation of an anaerobic mixed culture able to reductively dechlorinate wide spread chlorinated solvents, such as PCE, TCE, DCE, DCA and VC.Partners in the project are:Technical University of Denmark (DTU)Geological Survey of Denmark & Greenland (GEUS)Flemish Institute for technological Investigations (VITO)Katholic University of Leuven (K.U.Leuven)Gent UniversityCatholic University of Louvain (UCLOUVAIN)HMGU-German Research Center for Environmental Health (HMGU)Coordinator:Prof. Dr. R.U. Meckenstockrainer.meckenstock@helmholtz-muenchen.deInstitute of Groundwater EcologyHelmholtz Zentrum MünchenIngolstädter Landstraße 185764 NeuherbergGermanywww.helmholtz-muenchen.de/goodwaterwww.labmet.ugent.be

Consultant and contact person, on behalf of Felsilab, for the “BioClean” proposal to EU FP7. Felsilab is a SME partner of the BioClean Consortium, which includes 19 partners from nine different and widely distributed European Countries, and one from China.The “BioClean” proposal was funded by the European Commision under the “Food, Agricultures and Fisheries, and Biotechnology” theme, for the 7 Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development. The project started in September 2012, and it is scheduled to run for 36 months.www.biocleanproject.eu

* Industrial research on the optimization of biogas production from waste activated sludge through ultrasonic treatments* Innovative remediation techniques for heavy metals-contaminated soils* Health, Safety and Environment