Riccardo Boiocchi obtained a PhD degree from the Technical University of Denmark. He does
research in programming languages, chemical engineering, and environmental engineering. His skills and expertise include environment, wastewater treatment, biological wastewater treatment, environmental impact analysis, water engineering, MATLAB, wastewater analysis, modeling and simulation, nitrogen removal, and nitrous oxide emissions.
Elena Cristina Rada Graduated in Environmental Engineering in 2002 from the Polytechnic University of Bucharest (energy and economics specialization). Since 2005, she has received three PhD titles from Italian and Romanian universities: a PhD in Environmental Engineering, a PhD in Energy Engineering, and a PhD in Engineering and Management. In 2013, she obtained the Italian National Qualification to function as Associate Professor in the sector of environmental and sanitary engineering, confirmed in 2018 and valid until 2027. In 2023, she received the Italian National Qualification to function as Full Professor in the same sector, valid until 2034. In 2016, she received the Eminent Scientist Medal from the Wessex Institute of Technology. Member of tens of scientific committees of international conferences, she is author of co-author of more than 300 articles in conferences and journals (more than 230 articles are indexed in the SCOPUS® database, giving an H index = 37). She is the editor of many Special Issues in international journals with high and medium impact factors of Elsevier and MDPI. Presently, she is a senior researcher at the University of Insubria, Italy. Recently, she was ranked in the top 2% of scientists list of the World Ranking published by Stanford University (the last four years).
Dr. Marco Ragazzi graduated in Hydraulic Engineering, class of 1988, from the Technical University of Milan and was winner of the Noseda Prize as the best graduate in his degree course. He completed his PhD in Environmental Engineering at the same university in 1991. Between 1995 and 2000, he acted as an Assistant Professor at the University of Trento, subsequently becoming an Associate Professor (since 2001) and a Full Professor (since 2018), at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of the same university, where he now teaches solid waste treatment, integrated waste management, and waste management in developing countries. He was the winner of the Ambrogino d’Oro Award in 2006 (Municipality of Milan). He is the author and co-author of over 300 technical scientific papers published in Italy and abroad. His fields of operation include the biodegradable fraction of waste, thermal treatments, separate collection, wastewater treatment, eutrophication of lakes, and pollution.
