Dr. Andrea Trovò received his M.Sc. degree in Mechanical Engineering with honors from University of Padua (UNIPD) in 2015. The same year, he started working in the research group “Fuel Cell Laboratory” of the Department of Industrial Engineering (DII) of UNIPD. In 2016, he enrolled in the Ph.D. course in Electric Energy Engineering at UNIPD, and in this position, he worked on developing technology for vanadium flow batteries. He became a Doctor of Philosophy in 2020. He received the National Scientific Qualification (ASN) as an associate professor in Electrical Engineering in 2022. In June 2022, he became an assistant professor at University of Padua. He participates in the research activities of the Electrochemical Energy Storage and Conversion Laboratory (EESCoLab) of the DII of UNIPD. He is a lecturer of the course “Energy Storage Engineering” for the master's degree in Electric Energy Engineering at UNIPD. He holds three patents on vanadium redox flow battery (VRFB) technology. He is also a co-founder of Spin-off E-Storage. His research topics mainly include fluid mechanics, electrical and electronics engineering, and batteries.
Prof. Andrea Lazzaretto received his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering and his Ph.D. in Energetics from University of Padova in 1986 and 1992, respectively. He obtained his post-doctorate in Industrial Engineering in 1994. In 1994, he became a Researcher of Design of Internal Combustion Machines and Engines at University of Padova and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2004. He has been a Full Professor of Energy Systems since 2019. He was the winner of the ASME Edward F. Obert Award in the years 1998, 2007, and 2018; the Best Paper award of "Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieria de Sevilla" in October-December 2018; and the third prize of the Best Paper Award of the ECOS2017 international conference. He is also a member of the advisory board of the international journal Energies. His research interests concern experimental and theoretical aspects related to the energy-economic-environmental simulation and optimization of the design and operation of energy production and recovery systems powered by renewable and fossil fuels.
