Dipartimento di
Ingegneria Astronautica, Elettrica ed Energetica

The coordinator of the PhD in Energy and Environment:

CORCIONE Massimo, Full Professor, SC 09/C2, SSD ING-IND/11, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Astronautica, Elettrica ed Energetica - Sapienza Università di Roma

College of the Ph.D. in Energy and Environment:

BIGGIERO Lucio, Full Professor, SC 13/B3, SSD SECS-P/10, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Industriale e dell'Informazione e di Economia  Università degli Studi dell'Aquila

BISEGNA Fabio, Assistant Professor, SC 09/C2, SSD ING-IND/11, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Astronautica, Elettrica ed Energetica  Sapienza Università di Roma

CAMMI Antonio, Associate Professor, SC 09/C2, SSD ING-IND/19, Dipartimento di Energia  Politecnico di Milano

CARUSO Gianfranco, Associate Professor, SC 09/C2, SSD ING-IND/19, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Astronautica, Elettrica ed Energetica  Sapienza Università di Roma

CELATA Gian Piero, Research Director, SC 09/C2, SSD ING-IND/10, ENEA Casaccia  Roma

COPPI Massimo, Associate Professor, SC 09/C2, SSD ING-IND/11, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Astronautica, Elettrica ed Energetica  Sapienza Università di Roma

CORSINI Alessandro, Associate Professor, SC 09/C1, SSD ING-IND/09, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Meccanica e Aerospaziale  Sapienza Università di Roma

CUMO Fabrizio, Associate Professor, SC 09/C2, SSD ING-IND/11, Dipartimento di Pianificazione, Design, Tecnologia dell'Architettura  Sapienza Università di Roma

DE SANTOLI Livio, Full Professor, SC 09/C2, SSD ING-IND/11, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Astronautica, Elettrica ed Energetica  Sapienza Università di Roma

FULGIONE Walter, Primo Assistant Professor, SC 02/B1, SSD FIS/01, INAF, INFN (LNGS)  Assergi (AQ)

GORI Paola, Assistant Professor, SC 09/C2, SSD ING-IND/10, Dipartimento di Ingegneria  Università degli Studi Roma TRE

HABIB Emanuele, Assistant Professor, SC 09/C2, SSD ING-IND/11, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Astronautica, Elettrica ed Energetica  Sapienza Università di Roma

LANEVE Giovanni, Associate Professor, SC 09/A1, SSD ING-IND/05, Scuola di Ingegneria Aerospaziale  Sapienza Università di Roma

MIKITYUK Konstantin, Assistant Professor, Paul Scherrer Institut, CH (ING-IND/19)

OCLON Pawel, Associate Professor, Cracow University of Technology, PL (ING-IND/10)

PALMERINI Giovanni Battista, Associate Professor, SC 09/A1, SSD ING-IND/05, Scuola di Ingegneria Aerospaziale  Sapienza Università di Roma

PONTANI Mauro, Assistant Professor, SC 09/A1, SSD ING-IND/03, Scuola di Ingegneria Aerospaziale  Sapienza Università di Roma

RISPOLI Franco, Full Professor, SC 09/C1, SSD ING-IND/09, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Meccanica e Aerospaziale  Sapienza Università di Roma

SALATA Ferdinando, Assistant Professor, SC 09/C2, SSD ING-IND/11, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Astronautica, Elettrica ed Energetica  Sapienza Università di Roma

SUBBA Fabio, Associate Professor, SC 09/C2, SSD ING-IND/19, Dipartimento di Energia  Politecnico di Torino

VALLATI Andrea, Assistant Professor, 09/C2, SSD ING-IND/10, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Astronautica, Elettrica ed Energetica  Sapienza Università di Roma

VAN DER SPUY Johan, Associate Professor, Stellenbosch University, SA (ING-IND/09)

Teachers' CV

Massimo Corcione has a M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering and a Ph.D. degree in Thermophysical Properties of Materials. He is a Full Professor of Thermal Sciences and of HVAC Design for Hospitals at the Faculty of Civil and Industrial Engineering of Sapienza University of Rome. He is the Coordinator of the PhD Course in Energy and Environment. He is the coordinator of the scientific research commettee of DIAEE department. He is a member of ANS (American Nano Society), ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) and UIT (Italian Union of Thermofluid-dynamics). He is associated with INFN (National Institute of Nuclear Physics). He serves as a reviewer for several archival scientific journals and is a member of the Editorial Board of the following journals: The Open Mech. Eng. J., The Open Thermodyn. J., Energy Sci. Techn., Open Conf. Proceed. J. e Open J. Energy Efficiency. His current research interests include natural and forced convection in pure fluids, mixtures and nanofluids, as well as the energy efficienct optimization of HVAC systems. He is the author or co-author of more than 120 scientific works on heat transfer, applied thermodynamics and acoustics, including more than 60 papers published in international archival journals.

Lucio Biggiero is Full Professor of Organization Science at the Department of Industrial Engineering, Information and Economics (DIIIE) (Università dell’Aquila, Italy). He is member of various international scientific associations and wrote papers on several international journals, among which the following ones: Computational & Mathematical Organization Theory; Current Pharmaceutical Biotechnology; Entrepreneurship & Regional Development; Human Systems Management; Industry and Higher Education; International Journal of Technology Transfer & Commercialization; International Review of Sociology; Journal of Financial Decision Making; Journal of Management and Governance; Journal of Management Studies; Journal of Technology Transfer; Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology and Life Sciences; Science and Public Policy; Systemica; Technological Forecasting & Social Change. Further, he contributed to various books into the fields of economics and management sciences. His main interests are in the following fields: innovation diffusion in inter-firm networks and in industrial clusters; knowledge creation and transfer in R&D collaboration networks; local development and regional systems; international trade and global production networks; (inter-)organisational design theory and methods; coordination theory; socio-cognitive aspects of organisational behaviour; behavioural theory of decision making and cognitive bias; organisational consequences of computer-mediated communication; methodology and epistemology of economics and management sciences.

Fabio Bisegna. M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, PhD and Researcher at the Department of Astronautical, Electrical and Energetic Engineering, Building Physics and Environmental Engineering Area, SAPIENZA University of Rome, Italy. Lecturer of “Bioclimatic Desing”, and “Design of Smart Cities” within the Faculty of Engineering, and lecturer of “Light and Lighting” and “Building Physics” within the Faculty of Architecture. Member of the Doctoral Program “Energy and Environment”. He is member of the Italian National Research Council-Conservation and Valorisation of the Cultural Heritage (CNR-ICVBC). He is author/co-author of about 150 papers on energy efficiency, lighting, acoustics, and a reviewer for international conferences and scientific journals in the fields of Energy and Environment. Assistant Editor of the International of Cultural Heritage and of the International Journal of Photoenergy. He is member of Organizing and Scientific/Technical Committees of national and international conferences. Actually, in the field of light and lighting, he works on the visual, non visual and energy aspects linked to the natural and artificial light, and their integration.

Antonio Cammi  has a M.S. degree in Nuclear Engineering and a Ph.D. degree in Science and Technology of Radiations. He is an Associate Professor of Nuclear Engineering at the Department of Energy – Politecnico di Milano. His research (2000-2018) in Italy and abroad concerns innovative nuclear systems and components (ADS, IRIS, ELSY, SURE, CFR, ALFRED, MSFR), the development of control strategies for power plants as well as of new methods and techniques (multi-physics modelling approach, reduced order modelling approach, object-oriented simulators) for analysing nuclear reactors of new generation. This activity has been accompanied by a parallel research related to the characterization of the thermo-hydraulic phenomena in helical pipes and to the experimental characterization of the stability in loops in natural circulation with distributed heat generation. Co-author of about 190 works presented at international conferences and published on international journals. 

Gianfranco Caruso is currently Researcher and Assistant Professor in Nuclear Plants (2011-today). He has a MSc degree in Nuclear Engineering (1984) and got a PhD in Energy Engineering (1988) and a post-graduate certificate in Industrial Safety and Protection (1992). He is habilitated as Associate Professor in Thermal Sciences, Energy Technology, Building Physics and Nuclear Engineering by the Italian National Scientific Habilitation (2013). He is Representative Member of Sapienza in the Governing Board of CIRTEN (ConsorzioInteruniversitario per la RicercaTecnologicaNucleare), Coordinator of the Nuclear Section of DIAEE (Department of Astronautical, Electrical and Energy Engineering), Liaison Officer of the OECD-NEA Data Bank for DIAEE.Member of the ScientificCouncil of International Center of Heat and Mass Transfer (ICHMT); member of UIT (Italian Union of Thermal-Hydraulics), member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. He is in the Editorial Board of the journal "Latin American Applied Research (LAAR)" for the subject "Heat and Mass Transfer". He is reviewer for several scientific journals in the field of energy, heat transfer and nuclear thermal-hydraulics. He is author of more than 150 scientific publications in international and national Journals and Conferences and more than 40 technical reports in the following main fields: advanced heat transfer and thermal-hydraulics in nuclear plants; two-phases heat transfer and flow; design of components and systems for energy production plants; heat transfer equipments.

Massimo Coppi, Nuclear Engineer, is Associate Professor of Environmental Technical Physics (SC 09/C2 ssd ING-IND/11) in the Architecture and Engineering course at the Faculty of Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome. He is the director of the Laboratory of Acoustics at the Department DIAEE - Sapienza University of Rome. His research activities are focused on traditional sectors of Environmental Technical Physics (Heat Transfer, Thermodynamics, Acoustics and Lighting). In particular, in the field of environmental acoustics, he deals the acoustics of the rooms and aspects related to noise for the evaluation of the acoustic environmental impact of transport infrastructures. In the field of heat transfer he is concerned with passive solar architecture with particular reference to solar chimneys. Regarding to the thermodynamics, he deals with issues related to OTEC (Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion) through the use of heat transformers for the desalination of seawater. He is the author and co-author of more than 110 scientific papers in the areas of heat transfer, thermodynamics and acoustics.

Alessandro Corsini is Professor of Fluid Machineries and Energy Conversion Systems at the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome. He received is PhD in 1996, and since then he has been actively involved in the development of numerical methods for turbomachinery CFD. He is Visiting Researcher at Rice University in Houston, USA, since 2004. Alessandro Corsini has contributed to establish the Sapienza University Technology Center (UTC) on R&D and Innovation in the field of industrial turbomachinery and energy systems working on model-based concepts for system and component design, environmental impact mitigation technologies, signal processing for condition and fault monitoring. Alessandro Corsini serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Power and Energy, International Journal of Rotating Machinery, Periodica Polytechnica. He has published over 150 papers, including more than 60 journal papers, and 5 international patents (on RES technologies and noise control). He is the winner of the 2013 Institution of Mechanical Engineering (IMechE) Donald Julius Groen Prize. Since 2012, Alessandro Corsini is Founder and President of the spin-off company SED Soluzioni per Energia e Diagnostica Srl. SED Soluzioni is dedicated to the development of software and hardware solutions for energy system diagnosis and efficiency control.

Fabrizio Cumo  nuclear engineer and doctor in Energetics, Associate Professor in Environmental Technical Physics (SC 09 C2 ssd ING-IND 11). He is Professor of Energy Management of Buildings and of Building Physics at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Rome Sapienza. He is president of the bachelor degree in Project Management, is Director of the Interdepartmental Research Center CITERA (Interdepartmental Centre for Territory Construction Restoration and Environment) and is director of the Master BIM (Building Integrated Modelling). His research work focuses primarily on energy and environmental management of buildings and the integrated modeling of the same. He is author of over 100 papers in the field of environmental technical physics and architecture technology and 15 printed publications in the same fields.

De Santoli Livio, Full Professor in HVAC Systems in Buildings (School of Architecture) and Energy Management (School of Engineering) at Sapienza University of Rome, delegate of Sapienza University of Rome for Energy and Buildings Policies and Energy Manager at Sapienza University of Rome. PastPresident of AiCARR, HVAC National Association, 2014-2017 and Chairman of WG on Energy Efficiency for Italian Authority of Energy Stakeholders Panel, Member of Board of Coordinamento FREE (Renewable Energy Sources and Energy Efficiency Associations), Member of Council of National Public Works. Director of Master Course “Strategy Energy Management Systems”, Sapienza University of Rome and member of International Advisory Board at Building Services Engineering Research & Technology (UK). Chairman of a national research WG within a PRIN project funded by the Italian Ministry of University and research (involving 12 Italian Universities), to realize the Italian network on “energy refurbishment of existing building stock in NZEB vision”. Author of some 200 publications about Energy, Indoor Environment Quality, Renewables, HVAC Systems, Applied Thermodynamics. Sopme Awards: Eurosolar for PV design of Vatican Aula delle Udienze Paolo VI (Aula Nervi), 2008, SUR AWARD (Shared University Research Grant) of IBM Corporation, for the research “Rome La Sapienza Active Energy Microgrids”, 2011, REHVA SCIENCE AWARD (Federation of European HVAC Associations), 2009, REHVA Honorary Fellow, 2012, Italian representative Avatar of Energy Innovation, Astana, Kazakhstan, EXPO 2017, Among 100 Italian Best Excellences, 2017

Paola Gori graduated in Electronic Engineering in 1997. In 2001 she received a PhD in Electronic Engineering and in 2005 a PhD in Industrial Engineering. From 2003 to 2013 she was researcher at Istituto di Struttura della Materia of the National Research Council. Since May 2013 she is researcher in the field of applied physics at Roma Tre University. Within condensed matter physics, she worked on first-principles calculations of structural, electronic and optical properties of surfaces and nanostructures. In medical ultrasound, she studied beamforming and synthesis and optimization of sparse ultrasound transducer arrays. She worked on thermophysical properties of solids, dealing with inverse heat conduction problems using stochastic metods. Currently, she works in the optimization of the luminous, acoustic and thermal indoor environment, in the improvement of building envelope and in green building design systems. She coauthored approximately 70 publications in international journals and conference proceedings.

Emanuele Habib has a M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering and a Ph.D. degree in Technical Physics. He is a Tenured Professor of Thermal Sciences at the Faculty of Civil and Industrial Engineering and of Technical Physics at the Faculty of Architecture of Sapienza University of Rome. His current main research interests include natural and forced convection in pure fluids, mixtures and nanofluids, heat transfer through the building envelope, and the energy efficient optimization of HVAC systems. He is the author or co-author of more than 45 scientific papers on heat transfer, applied thermodynamics and HVAC systems.

Giovanni Laneve has a M.S. degree in Aeronautics Engineering and a pots-graduate degree in Aerospace Engineering. He is Associate Professor of Remote Sensing Systems at the School of Aerospace Engineering of Sapienza University of Rome. He is the scientific responsible of the EOSIAL laboratory (Earth Observation Satellite Images Applications Lab.) He is a reviewer of the following journals: Acta Astronautica, Remote Sensing, Trans. on Geos. and Rem. Sens., J. of Applied Remote Sensing, Int. J. of Geogr. Inf. Science. His current research interests focus primarily on the development of applications of satellite images in agriculture, emergency management and real-time monitoring of fast dynamic phenomena (dust storms, volcanic eruptions, etc.). He is the author or co-author of over 160 scientific papers in the areas of orbits for remote sensing, monitoring of forest fires, environmental monitoring and emergency management.

Giovanni Palmerini has a laurea degree with honors in Aeronautical Engineering (1991) and a PhD in Aerospace Engineering (1996), and is currently Associate Professor of Guidance and Navigation at the School of Aerospace Engineering of Sapienza. Research expertise includes orbital dynamics, space systems and small satellites, with the participation to design, manufacturing, test and launch of the first Italian university microsatellite (UNISAT, 2000). In recent years he focussed on the topics of navigation and robotics, and to their applications in different engineering fields. Reviewer and associate editor for several scientific journals, he is session chair of the IEEE Aerospace Conference, AIAA senior member and corresponding member of the International Academy of Astronautics.

Mauro Pontani, currently covers the position of Assistant Professor of Aerospace Engineering at the Department of Astronautical, Electrical, and Energy Engineering, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy. He earned two Master Degrees, i.e. M.S. in Electronics Engineering (in 2001) and M.S. in Astronautical Engineering (in 2004), and the Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering (in 2008). He was Visiting Scholar and Visiting Researcher at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, and at Rice University, Houston, TX, several times from 2004 through 2017. Currently, he is a corresponding member of the International Academy of Astronautics. In 2017 he earned the Italian National Qualification for the positions of Full Professor of Aerospace Engineering. His research interests are in the field of astrodynamics and aerospace trajectory optimization, and specifically include (i) aerospace mission analysis, (ii) analytical and numerical optimization methods, (iii) dynamic game theory applied to aerospace trajectories, (iv) guidance of aerospace vehicles, (v) satellite constellations, and (vi) spacecraft attitude dynamics. He is author of more than 80 scientific publications (including 33 journal papers), and currently serves as Associate Editor for the Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, Mathematical Problems in Engineering, and the International Journal of Aerospace Engineering. He gave several invited seminars and more than 30 conference talks. He took part to several research projects, as researcher or principal investigator.

Franco Rispoli, Full Professor since 01.11.2006, Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", Dipartimento di Ingegneria Meccanica e Aerospaziale. Since December 2016: expert of ERC-2017-STG, ERC-2017-PoC, ERC-2017-ADG, ERC-2017-COG for the European Research Council Executive Agency ( ERCEA ) delegated from European Commission. National Coordinator of the European Research Community on: “Flow, Turbulence and Combustion (ERCOFTAC)”. Member of the National Research Evaluation Program 2004-2010 (ANVUR GEV09). Chair of Mechanical Engineering of the Department Mechanics and Aerospace Engineering (DIMA). Member of the University Steering Committee for Research (2012-2014). Decennial collaboration with the following universities: Rice University (T*AFSM), Technical University of Delft, Technical University of Budapest, Politechnika Gdanska, Universitad de Piura UDEP. Visiting Research at Rugters State University (CAIP) and at the European Center for Scientific and Engineering Computing (IBM). Responsible of four bilateral SOCRATES/ERASMUS agreements. Member of Organizing Committee of eleven international conferences. Peer reviewer of eleven Journals. Several Courses and invited Lectures at abroad Universities. Scientific leader of researches based on: “Investigation on aerodynamic and energy characteristics of axial flow fans for the improvement in fan design methodology”. “Analysis of the turbulent 3D flow in the rotor of axial fan”, “Aeroelasticity of horizontal axial wind rotor”. “Application of advanced turbulent model to internal flows”. “Computational analysis of the compressible and incompressible fluidodynamic of turbomachine with innovative technique based on finite element method”. “Development of a parallel methodology for the computational fluidynamic of the turbomachine”. “Multi scale methodology for the simulation of industrial interest flows research program: LES and Hybrid modelling for 3D flows in complex geometry”. “Numerical prediction of the flow in combustion chamber of gas turbine by finite element code”. Italian Engineering professional member since 1987. ATI (Italian Thermo-technical Association) member since 1984, Vice-President ATI-Regional section (Lazio). ISES member since 1984. ASME member since 1998. Turbomachinery IGTI Committee member. JSME member since 2003. Professional experience: 1987 Turin - FIATAVIO Consultant Thermo-structural design of pumps for aeronautical applications. 1989 Rome ENEA Consultant Aeroelastic analysis of the windmill AIT02 MEDIT. 2002-2015 Rome CCSE  and GSE Member of the Steering Committee for the evaluation of Italian research projects and cogenerative power plants. University Courses. Starting from 1982: Seminars and exercises for the Course: “Macchine speciali”, Exercises for the Course Turbomachinery, Exercises for the Courses: Fluid Machinery and Internal Combustion Enginees, Assistant professor of  Fluid Machinery, Associate professor of Energy Systems, Associate professor of Internal Combustion Enginees, Professor of Machinery Fluidodynamics, Professor of Energy Systems, Professor of Advanced Energy Systems. Author of 186 scientific papers, 62 of them published on Journals or books (scopus H-index=18) and 3 patents.