ORCID: 0000-0002-9475-0763
Scopus Author ID: 670185363
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=fy3iBr4AAAAJ&hl=it
MAIN RESEARCH TOPICS:
- sustainable logistics (special focus on design and management of automated warehouses and refrigerated transports);
- sustainable production;
- energy recovery and renewable integration;
- industrial and urban symbiosis.
RESEARCH METHODOLOGIES:
- Constraint Programming (CP) and local search;
- Mixed Integer Programming (MIP),
- Simulation.
BEST PAPER AWARDS:
Burbidge Award in recognition of excellence in research by IFIP WG5.7 for the paper “Sustainable storage assignment in AS/RSs” presented at the International Conference on Advances in Production Management Systems (APMS) 2010.
Applied Energy ICAE2013 Best Paper Award of Excellence for the paper "PCM-based energy recovery from Electric Arc Furnaces", Applied Energy, 2014, Vol. 136.
http://www.journals.elsevier.com/applied-energy/news/icae2013-best-paper...
Best Paper Award for an outstanding manuscript at the conference submission for the paper “Integrating industrial waste heat recovery into future sustainable Smart Energy Systems”, at the SDEWES 2018: 13th Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems.
JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUES
I'm currently guest editor of the special issue Energy transition and Hydrogen: challenges and opportunities for the journal Sustainability, to which I encourage submissions.
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability/special_issues/energy_transi...
CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS
Leader of the reserach task "Integration of renewable energy sources, alternative fuel/vector production and energy efficient management in industrial and logistic systems", iNEST -Interconnected Nord-Est Innovation Ecosystem, Spoke 3 - Green and digital transition for advanced manufacturing technology, PNRR, September 2022-August 2025