Faculty

Andrea Simone

Andrea Simone

Associate Professor / Department of Civil, Chemical, Environmental, and Materials Engineering DICAM

Andrea Simone since 2004 is associate professor at the School of Engineering and Architecture of the University of Bologna. He has served on European and international (AIPCR-PIARC) technical committees. He is author of about 100 publications. His main research areas are: Road pavement materials, Road Safety Analysis, Road Safety Design and human factor interaction

Claudio Lantieri

Claudio Lantieri

Junior assistant professor (fixed-term) / Department of Civil, Chemical, Environmental, and Materials Engineering

Eng Claudio Lantieri, Ph.D. in Transportation Engineering, is researcher type a) a since 2016 in the School of Engineering and Architecture at the University of Bologna. He has been teaching and Teaching Assistant in all courses of the DICAM - Roads area, with activities assistant supervisor in several dissertations. Member SIIV (Italian Society of Road Infrastructures) since 2006, has participated in several conferences and seminars and has authored publications in journals and national and international conferences on topics related to the subject area ICAR04. 

Valeria Vignali

Valeria Vignali

Assistant professor; Department of Civil, Chemical, Environmental, and Materials Engineering; University of Bologna

Valeria Vignali has a background in civil engineering and holds a Ph.D. in Transportation Engineering. She is assistant professor at the Department of Civil, Chemical, Environmental, and Materials Engineering of the School of Engineering and Architecture of the University of Bologna. Her research interests concern road, railway and airport infrastructures, with particular reference to the analysis of the road-drivers interaction by innovative technologies. She authored numerous scientific papers published in international journals.

Roberto Battistini

Roberto Battistini

Mobility Manager and Project Manager on Sustainability transportation at University of Bologna, Architecture and Sustainability Technical Division

Roberto Battistini since 2006 till today has been in charge as mobility manager at University of Bologna with the aim to define strategies, policies and to develop specific projects for the entire university community in the fields of sustainable mobility, urban planning, and mobility as a service. He has published several Commuter Plans and Strategic Plan for Sustainabile Moblility and He cooperates also with research activity in the following areas: air quality and climate change (with BIGEA – Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences Department), City and sustainable mobility for tourism (with CAST – Center for Advanced Studies in Tourism), Behavior models for transportation modal choice (with Department of Psycology)

Filippo Paganelli

Filippo Paganelli

Research Fellow at DICAM – University of Bologna

Filippo Paganelli (PhD in 2012) is Research Fellow at DICAM, School of Engineering and Architecture - University of Bologna since 2017. He participates in local and EU-funded projects on transport topics, has authored publication on journals and conference proceedings and supervised students on their final dissertation in Civil Engineering. His research topic are Air Transport and the optimization of human organ transportation network for transplant activities alongside the Italian Transplantation Centre.

Marco Costa

Marco Costa

Associate Professor. Department of Psychology, University of Bologna

Marco Costa is head of the Laboratory of Environmental Psychology at the Department of Psychology, University of Bologna. His main research interest is human factors and ergonomics, with a particular emphasis on traffic security and driver’s perception using both behavioral and physiological responses.

Federico Rupi

Federico Rupi

Associate Professor / Department of Civil, Chemical, Environmental, and Materials Engineering DICAM

Born in Arezzo on May 1, 1968. Current university role: (2005) Associate Professor, University of Bologna, Italy. Scholastic career prior to the current position: Assistant Professor of Transport Systems Analysis, University of Bologna, Italy;  Researcher at University of Bologna, Italy; PhD in Transportation Engineering, University of Bologna, Italy; Laurea (M.S.), Magna Cum Laude, Civil Engineering, University of Firenze, Italy; High School Diploma in Grammar School (Classical Gymnasium) Arezzo, Italy.

Piergiorgio Tataranni

Piergiorgio Tataranni

Research fellow at DICAM. Scientific manager SAFERUP! H2020 MSCA ITN-2017 project

Piergiorgio Tataranni is a research fellow at DICAM. Since 2013 his activity in the Roads section of the Department is focused on themes related to pavement materials and construction technologies for civil infrastructures. His research is mainly centred on the development of innovative and sustainable materials and low impact construction technologies. On these topics, he is author of several scientific publications, his PhD thesis and he participated in Europeans projects. He is currently the Scientific Manager of SAFERUP! H2020 MSCA ITN-2017 project.

Luca Pietrantoni

Luca Pietrantoni

Full Professor / University of Bologna

Luca Pietrantoni is Full Professor in Social/Organizational Psychology. He is the Director of Erasmus Mundus Joint Master's Degree of Work, Organizational and Personnel Psychology since 2015. He coordinated XCYCLE project on behavioural and social dimension of traffic safety. His main research interests include human factors in transport, human-machine interface, and psychosocial dimensions of safety and risk.

Luca Mantecchini

Luca Mantecchini

Assistant Professor, DICAM – School of Engineering and Architecture, Unibo

M.Sc. in Civil Engineering degree from the University of Bologna in 2000, Ph.D. in Transportation at the University of Bologna in 2004, is assistant professor at the Department of Civil, Chemical, Environmental and Materials Engineering, School of Engineering and Architecture, University of Bologna, Italy. His main interests include urban transportation systems analysis, transportation sustainability, airport planning and development, air transportation and healthcare logistics. During the last years has been involved in a number of European research projects on urban transportation sustainability. He is transport advisor of the Italian National Transplant Centre (CNT), and he is also member of the board of the G. Marconi Airport of Bologna, Italy. He is co-author of more than 60 scientific papers and articles.

Anna Costa

Anna Costa

Landscape architect / Adjunct professor, agricultural and food sciences (DISTAL), University of Bologna

Anna Costa, architect (IUAV) and landscape architect (Master in Landscape Architecture, ETSAB, UPC, Spain); member of AIAPP. She carries out professional activity in the field of landscape design with particular reference to the design of gardens and open spaces. Since 2015 she has been adjunct professor in the Degree in Ornamental Plants and Landscape Protection; she is also involved in research on topics related to landscape architecture and public space.

 

Patrizia Tassinari

Patrizia Tassinari

Full Professor - Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences – DISTAL – University of Bologna Academic discipline: AGR/10 Rural Buildings and Agro-forest Land Planning

Coordinator of PhD Programme of Health, Safety and Green Systems, representative of UNIBO in Uniscape network, President of the II section of the Italian Association of Agricultural Engineering, Rector's delegate as academic representative of the Imola district of UNIBO. System and a disciplinary expert at ANVUR. Author of over 200 publications in national and international journals. Teaching and research activities in various macro-themes in the field of rural construction, land and rural landscape and green systems

Catia Prandi

Catia Prandi

Assistant professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Catia Prandi obtained the PhD in Computer Science at the University of Bologna in 2016. After the PhD, she spent two years in Portugal, working as Post-Doc researcher at the Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute. Since July 2018, she is assistant professor at the University of Bologna, Department of Computer Science and Engineering. Her current research is related to HCI and urban data science: how to explore pervasive systems and crowdsourcing/crowdsensing to gather data about the environment and how to visualize these data to inform communities about sustainability.

Tommaso Bonino

Tommaso Bonino

Director SRM – Bologna Metropolitan Mobility Authority

Tommaso BONINO graduated in Engineering in 1994, he has experiences in individual and collective mobility management. Since 2003 he is the manager at SRM, the public transport authority for the Bologna metropolitan area. Before, he has worked for private companies and for several local bodies. SRM regulates 120 millions PT trips per year, 50.000 urban parking slots and bike- and car-sharing urban services; moreover promotes mobility services and deals with research and development in sustainable mobility projects. He represents SRM within UITP as member of the UITP Organising Authorities Committee. His main fields of expertise are related to mobility planning and regulation. He’s been involved in many multidisciplinary and group works, and has participated in many congresses and studies, at national and international level.

Claudio Rossi

Claudio Rossi

Associate Professor / Department of Electrical, Electronic, and Information Engineering "Guglielmo Marconi"

Claudio Rossi received his M.Sc. and the PhD degrees from the University of Bologna, in 1997 and 2001, respectively, both in electrical engineering. Since 2000 he is Research Associate at the Department of Electrical Engineering of the same University in Electrical Machines, Drives and Power Electronics. He is associate professor since 2015. His present research activity is devoted to power electronics, electric drives and battery management system for full-electric and hybrid-electric vehicles.

Cleto Carlini

Cleto Carlini

Director of the Sustainable Mobility and Infrastructure Sector of the Municipality of Bologna

Eng. Cleto Carlini  worked in the field of transport planning at the Emilia-Romagna Region from 1996 to 2004. Since 2004 director of the Municipality of Bologna, he has played a key role in developing the General Plan for Urban Traffic and the Structural Plan of the Municipality of Bologna. He has participated in numerous national and European projects in the field of mobility management and the use of ITS technologies to improve urban traffic. Since March 2007 he has been Director of the Sustainable Mobility and Infrastructure Sector of the Municipality of Bologna and coordinates all planning, design and management activities in the transport and urban mobility field.

Giuseppe Luppino

Giuseppe Luppino

Institute for Transport and Logistics - ITL

Experienced EU Project Manager with a demonstrated history of working in transport sector and public policy development. Skilled in Innovative sustainable transport solutions, Sustainable Development, Analytical Skills, product development, International Relations, English, and Proposal Writing. Strong institutional and business development professional with a Master of Business Administration (MBA) focused in Economics, management from Bologna Business School. President of the European Network of Logistics Competence Centers OPEN ENLoCC

Giuseppe Liguori

Giuseppe Liguori

Responsible for the General Affairs department at SRM – Reti e Mobilità Srl

Graduated in Law, expert in drafting and management of European Projects, in SRM he is responsible for the management of General Affairs department, he is in charge of relations with institutions and shareholders and with the partners of the working groups created in EU funded projects.

Katia Raffaelli

Katia Raffaelli

Public Officer at Emilia-Romagna Region

Katia Raffaelli is graduated in Engineering for the Environment and the Territory at the University of Bologna. She has been working for the Emilia-Romagna Region since 2001, with tasks on sustainable mobility, water management, air quality and climate change. Since 2010 she has been dealing with the implementation of air quality policies in Emilia-Romagna and she has elaborated the first regional air quality plan. Currently she is the project manager of the LIFE Integrated Project PREPAIR (Po Regions Engaged to Policies of AIR), co-financed by European Union in 2016 with the aim of improving air quality in the Po Valley.

Andrea Normanno

Andrea Normanno

Technical Officer at the Public Transport and Sustainable Mobility Service - General Directorate for Territorial and Environment Care of the Emilia-Romagna Region

Civil Transportation Engineer, member of the Order of Engineers of the Province of Bologna, I collaborate with the Order as a member of the Infrastructure and Transport commission. I have worked with the University of Bologna, with the Mobility Department of the Municipality of Bologna, and I am currently a permanent officer at the Public Transport and Sustainable Mobility Service General Directorate for Territorial and Environment Care of the Emilia-Romagna Region.  In particular, I deal with sustainable mobility as a technical officer expert in innovative technological systems, electric mobility, renewal of LPT (local public transport) fleets with eco-compatible and innovative vehicles, infomobility and PUMS. I am project manager of several European projects (LIFE MHYBUS and PREPAIR, CIVITAS MIMOSA, INTERREG EPTA and REFORM, ADRION INTERCONNECT, Interreg ICARUS). Member of the PUMS working group at ministerial level for the drafting of the "guidelines". I am also a member of the People Mover Safety Commission coordinated by the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport. I am involved in the main regional projects on sustainable mobility, at the technical level I look at the agreements, agreements and conventions, such as the PUMS project, POR-FESR funds (2007-2013), POR-FESR funds (2014-2020), the Mi Muovo Elettrico project. I participate in many events in Italy and abroad as a speaker and I am involved in writing reports / studies for the promotion of sustainable mobility.

Andrea Bottazzi

Andrea Bottazzi

Fleet manager TPER

Graduated in: Mechanical Engineering (1), Political Science (2) and Economy, Market and Institution (3).  Fleet manager of the city of Bologna since October 1998. Wrote books and papers concerning public transport operations. Lecturer at the Engineering Faculty of Bologna Italy. Started in is company with Life cycle cost methodology since 2001 and is continuing since now a days. Fleet manager expert for some EU project concerning PT and sustainability of vehicles. Part of the Tper spa team that stated with: electrical, CNG and LNG fleet; with a large project. UITP Bus World 2017 Kortrijk speaker, IT TRANS Karlsruhe, EBSF 2 expert.

 

Silvia Mirri

Silvia Mirri

Assistant professor Department of Computer Science and Engineering

iographic Notes:

  • Assistant Professor SSD INF01, Environmental Sciences and Technologies for the Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage Degree Courses, Department of Computer Science, Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences, University of Bologna.
  • 2008, Visiting researcher, Adaptive Technology Resource Centre (ATRC), University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
  • 2007, Ph.D. in Computer Science, Department of Computer Science University of Bologna.
  • 2004-2006, researcher, SWIMM project, University of Bologna.
  • 2003, M.S. in Computer Science, University of Bologna.
  • 2002, Italian degree in Computer Science, University of Bologna.

Main research interests are:

  • Accessibility of E-learning Environments.
  • Web Content Accessibility and Evalutation tools.
  • Content Transcoding and Multimedia Adaptation.
  • Inclusive Digital Design for Multimedia.
Elisabetta Bracci

Elisabetta Bracci

Smart Service & Smart Building Specialist Fondatrice e Senior Consultant @ JUMP Facility

Senior consultant, trainer and keynote speaker working on smart service and smart building, focusing on design and digital transformation for services and infrastructures.

After an engineering degree, I developed a solid experience in Facility, Energy and Service Management through a national and international experience. In 2017 I founded Jump Facility, a consultancy network partner for Facility Managers and Facility Companies in order to maximise performance, achieve higher goals and most of all jump into digital transformation in an easier and more sustainable way

I’m an Innovation Manager & Ambassador and I’ve had the pleasure of collaborating with many SMEs (small and medium enterprises) and also with international companies, Universities, the National Engineers Association and the National Standardization Body (UNI) for standard norms revisioning.

DAVIDE SERRAU

DAVIDE SERRAU

Director Asset e Sviluppo & IT, SAPIR Porto Intermodale di Ravenna SPA

MARCO DE MITRI

MARCO DE MITRI

Specialist in road safety and sustainable mobility

Graduated in Civil Engineering (Transport specialization) at the Polytechnic of Bari. He works in Trafficlab, where he follows projects relating to road safety, sustainable mobility and transport planning through project management activities, applied research, process innovation, auditing and dissemination of best practices. He collaborates with the Department of Civil, Chemical, Environmental and Materials Engineering of the University of Bologna with tutoring activities for thesis students and interns of the Civil Engineering degree course.

ROSANNA BANDINI

ROSANNA BANDINI

Municipality of Bologna - Department of Public Works, Mobility and Heritage - Sustainable Mobility and Infrastructure Sector - I.U. Tram Network, Plans and Projects for Sustainable Mobility - Head of the Urban Transformations and Cycling Operating Unit

Rosanna Bandini graduated in Engineering in 1999 from the University of Bologna.

She has worked for various Entities such as the “Upper and Middle Rhine Valley Community” for the preparation of the "Socio-economic Development Plan"; the “Corno alle Scale Regional Park” for the drafting of the "First study for the Park development program" and collaborated with the "Project: the Fabbrica delle Mura" program, created in collaboration with the Ministry of Environment of the Republic of Malta and the Department of Architecture and Territorial Planning of the University of Bologna.

From 2000 to 2003 she worked as an external consultant for the Sustainable Mobility and Infrastructure Sector of the Municipality of Bologna and since 2003 she has been an officer at the OU. Sustainable Mobility Planning and Promotion. Since 2008 she has been responsible technician of  the Office "Evaluation of urban evaluation plans and interventions" and since 2020 she has been responsible for the "Urban Transformations and Cycling" Operating Unit.

She collaborates in the drafting of the planning tools of the Municipality of Bologna and in the evaluation of Urban Planning and Building projects, from the point of view of urban mobility, in relation to a scale of interventions that varies from the single building intervention, up to the evaluation of large municipal scale interventions and supra-municipal, in terms of analysis of mobility studies and evaluation of urbanization works to transfer to the Public Administration (roads, parking lots, pedestrian and cycle paths, restricted traffic areas, ...).

She is also involved in the evaluation and implementation of sustainable mobility systems, such as the "Bologna a scuola moves sustainable" project relating to sustainable school mobility and she follows the design of roads and school areas as well as the planning and implementation of cycle routes

Luca Mora

Luca Mora

Nemo Consulting

Graduated in Economics and Commerce from the University of Genoa
Freelancer, President and Legal Representative of NEMO Srl

MARCO DE ANGELIS

MARCO DE ANGELIS

Junior Assistant Professor in Work and Organisational Psychology

Marco De Angelis is Junior Assistant Professor in Work and Organisational Psychology since 2020. Between 2015-2018 he participated in the coordination group of the H2020 European project XCYCLE, studying the behavioural and social dimensions of road safety. Moreover, during her PhD concluded in 2020, he designed and elaborated the GOTOUNIBO survey, aimed at understanding home-work travel patterns in the university community. His main research interests focus on psychosocial science applied to high-risk contexts in the industrial, organisational and traffic fields.

Emanuele Gozzi

Emanuele Gozzi

Project Manager CEO Ingegneri Riuniti Spa

Cecilia Mazzoli

Cecilia Mazzoli

Research Fellow

Cecilia Mazzoli is a research fellow at the Department of Architecture (DA) of the University of Bologna (UNIBO). Graduated in Building and Architectural Engineering and PhD in Architecture at UNIBO in co-direction with the Université de Paris-Est, since 2011 she collaborates with the DA carrying out teaching and research activities in the disciplinary sector of Technical Architecture, and collaborating in international research projects. Her profile is oriented to the conservation of local construction techniques, the conservation and restoration of the historical and recent building heritage, and the performance renovation and energy requalification of buildings. In the abovementioned research field she has published a monograph and several scientific papers in conference proceedings and international journals.