Mario Grosso Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Mario GROSSO graduated in Environmental Engineering at Politecnico di Milano, where he also earned a PhD in Sanitary Engineering on the subject of PCDD/F formation and destruction mechanisms in municipal waste incineration plants.

He currently serves as Associate Professor at the DICA Department of Politecnico di Milano, where he coordinated the AWARE (Assessment on WAste and REsources) research group. Research activities include 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). Research is funded by both public and private sectors, including some competitive funding.

He has co-authored more than 200 publications, 66 of which in ISI-rated journals (as of August 2020), and has attended a number of international conferences and symposia.

He regularly teaches “Solid waste management and treatment” and “Bio-energy and waste-to-energy technologies” Master Courses at Politecnico di Milano, as well as “Principles of technologies for environmental protection” at L. Bocconi University.

He is co-founder and member of the Scientific Board of the “MatER” Research Center, established within the LEAP laboratory in Piacenza.

He is Associate Editor of the “Waste Management & Research” Journal since May 2015.

He was founder of AIAT (the Italian environmental engineers’ associations), where he coordinates the Scientific Committee. He is vice-president of ENEP, the European Network of Environmental Professionals, after having served as the General Secretary. He is member of the Scientific Committee of “Climalteranti” (www.climalteranti.it), a scientific blog dealing with the climate change debate.

He is member of IWWG (International Waste Working Group), of ISWA (International Solid Waste Association), of GITISA (the Italian network of Sanitary-Environmental Engineering) and of the Italian LCA network. He is part of the International Expert Group (IEG) on LCA applied to waste management.

In 2013 he visited the Institute for Thermal Power Engineering at the Zhejiang University in Hangzhou (China), where he gave some lectures on waste management and LCA and advised some PhD students. In 2014 he visited the Department of Environmental Engineering at the Kyoto University (Japan).