Biografisk notat

Vincenzo Bianco is a Full Professor of Energy and Thermal Sciences at the University of Naples “Parthenope”, Italy. Previously he served at the University of Genova, Genoa, Italy from 2012 to 2022 as an Assistant, Associate, and finally Full Professor. He carries out research on energy efficiency in buildings, energy planning, analysis of energy markets, energy efficiency in industrial processes and heat transfer using nanofluids. He was a visiting researcher at the University of California Riverside, USA and ETH Zurich, Switzerland. He is the author of over 100 papers published in world-leading peer-reviewed journals on energy and heat transfer. Before starting his academic career, he gained important experience in industry as a Business Analyst at Value Partners Management Consulting and as a Senior Business Analyst at ENEL SpA, working on business strategy issues and the analysis of energy markets. Mattia De Rosa is an Associate Professor in Energy and Applied Thermodynamics in the Department of Biomedical Science of the University of Sassari, Italy, where he also worked as an Assistant Professor from between November 2020 and December 2022. He was a Visiting Researcher at the Institute of Energy Engineering, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain in 2014, where he studied the development of numerical methods for geothermal heat pump systems. Mattia was a Research Fellow at Queen’s University Belfast, UK from 2015 to 2017, and a Senior Energy System Researcher at University College Dublin, Republic of Ireland. During his career, Mattia has worked in several national and international research projects and as a lecturer in energy, thermodynamics, and heat transfer for university undergraduate and post-graduate courses. He is an author of more than 50 publications in world-leading peer-reviewed journals, conferences and technical reports in energy, heat transfer and sustainability.