Alessandra Zanoletti received a Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Engineering from the University of Brescia in 2012, a Master’s Degree in Environmental Engineering from the same university in 2014, and a Ph.D. in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering from the University of Brescia in 2018. She is an environmental engineer and research fellow at the Laboratory of Chemistry for Technologies, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department of the University of Brescia. Her research interests mainly focus on the synthesis and characterization of innovative porous materials for the trapping of atmospheric particulate matter (PM) and on the search for new methods for the stabilization of fly ash coming from waste-to-energy plants.
Dr. Chiara Ferrara is an Academic Researcher at the Deparment of Materials Science at the University
of Milano-Bicocca. She completed her co-shared PhD studies at the University of Pavia (Italy) and at the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon (France) in 2014. Her research interests include lithium- and sodium-ion battery materials, lithium-ion battery recycling, energy storage materials and devices, structural characterization, and diffraction-based methods. She has 71 publications with 1638 citations and an h-index of 23 (Scopus, 28 November 2023).
Elza Bontempi received her Ph.D. in Materials for Engineering from the University of Brescia and CNRS Grenoble in 2001. Since 2011, she has been a Full Professor in Fundamental Chemistry for Technologies
at the University of Brescia (Italy). Her research interests mainly focus on sustainability innovation (e.g., alternatives to waste landfilling), strategic environmental management, and sustainable raw materials recovery. Moreover, she also contributed to developing new strategies to promote the circular economy
diffusion by proposing preliminary simplified approaches to LCA devoted to evaluating emerging technologies, mainly dedicated to SMEs and material science researchers.
