Piergiuseppe Morone Research Group Coordinator UnitelmaSapienza
Piergiuseppe Morone is Full Professor of Economic Policy at Unitelma Sapienza with a strong interest in green innovation and sustainable circular bioeconomy pushing his research at the interface between innovation economics and sustainability transitions, an area of enquiry that has attracted growing attention over the last decade.
Read more His work regularly appears in prestigious innovation and environmental economics journals.
He is the coordinator of the Bioeconomy in Transition Research Group (BiT-RG) and the director of the School of Sustainability Studies and Circular Economy (SUSTAIN). Moreover, he is/was involved in several European projects (including: H2020, BBI-JU, Life, Erasmus+, COST, Horizon
Europe and CBE-JU) acting as scientific coordinator, vice-chair and WP Leader. He was Economic advisor to the Italian Minister of the Environment, Land and Sea Protection, till February 2021.
Piergiuseppe is Editor in Chief of Societal Impacts (ELSEVIER) and Associate Editor of Cleaner and Circular Bioeconomy (ELSEVIER), member of the Editorial Boards of Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry (ELSEVIER) and Open Agriculture (De Gruyter Open) and acts as Guest Editor for various journal including the Journal of Cleaner Production (ELSEVIER).
Since April 2022 Piergiuseppe is the vice-chair of the Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking (CBE JU) Scientific Committee.
Giulia Borghesi is a Junior Project Manager, collaborating in all BiT-RG European and Italian projects. She graduated cum laude in a Double Degree Master programme in Global Politics and International Relations at the University of Macerata and Public and Business Administration at the MGIMO University of Moscow in 2020, with a final dissertation on European Union policies and Institutions.
Read more She also obtained a 2nd level master’s degree in Politics and International relations at the LUMSA University in 2021, with a final dissertation on food waste, focusing on the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on food waste generation. Giulia has an intercultural and interdisciplinary background thanks to exchange programmes in Canada, Ireland, and Russia. Her research interests include a range of disciplines, such as European policies, sustainability and circular economy.
Rocco Caferra Researcher UnitelmaSapienza
Rocco Caferra is a Post-Doc researcher at the UnitelmaSapienza University of Rome (SECS/P-02). Previously, he got a PhD in Economics at the University of Bari (Italy), in co-tutorship with the University of Castellon (Spain).
Read more He is a member of the Bioeconomy-in-Transition Group at the university ”Unitelma Sapienza” of Rome and a senior fellow of the CIMEO research center of the Sapienza University of Rome.
His main research interests focus on behavioral and experimental economics and finance topics, finalized at the introduction and the discussion of different policy interventions.
Alessandra Callari collaborates with the BiT-RG and supports its coordinator in all aspects related to the group management. She graduated in Political Science at the University of Pisa.
Read more She subsequently obtained a Master Degree in International Studies at RomaTre University. Her final thesis focused on The Origins and Consolidation of the European Union Nuclear Non-Proliferation Policy.
Alessandro Cascavilla Researcher UnitelmaSapienza
Alessandro Cascavilla is a Post-Doc researcher in Economic Policy at Università degli Studi di Roma Unitelma Sapienza. He holds a PhD in Economics and Management at the University of Bari “Aldo Moro” in co-tutorship with Universitat Jaume I (Spain), a double Master’s Degree cum laude in International Economics at UNIVPM and UJI, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics and Commerce cum laude at UNIVPM.
Read more He has been working as a Junior Economist at the Italian Public Accounts Monitor of the Catholic University (Rome). He manages an audience of more than 200.000 followers on social media, where he spreads content about economic and financial literacy. Among other institutional collaborations, he is social ambassador for the ISTAT (Istituto nazionale di statistica) and has been collaborating with Eurostat.
He is conducting research in the field of individual decision making and public economics (taxation, environment and role of government) applying a behavioral and experimental approach.
Annarita Colasante Associate Professor UnitelmaSapienza
She obtained the PhD in Economics at the Università Politecnica delle Marche (Italy) in 2014 and she spent 4 years at the Universitat Jaume I (Spain) to improve her knowledge in the field of experimental economics.
Read more The main focus of her research is to investigate how economic policies can be shaped taking into account individuals’ behavior. She applies the tools of Behavioral Economics in many fields such as financial markets, social economy organization and energy consumption.
Ana Gabriela Encino Researcher UnitelmaSapienza
Ana Encino is collaborating as a researcher in the BiT group. Her main lines of research are Sustainable Consumption, Design for Sustainability, and the contributions of Circular Economy and Design for sustainable transitions. She obtained a PhD in Design from the University of Leeds in the UK.
Read more She has experience as a lecturer and as a reviewer for international scientific journals.
Francesca Govoni Project manager UnitelmaSapienza
Francesca Govoni graduated in Law at Roma Tre University in 2015, writing a final dissertation on the environmental policy of the European Union. After completing her BA, she obtained a Master Degree in International Relationships in Rome, at the LUMSA University, focusing mostly on European and International Law, Bioeconomy, Environmental Law and Environmental Economics.
Read more In 2016, she won a scholarship from Lazio Regional Government to attend a training programme on “EU policies and funding schemes” in Brussels. She is currently part of the administrative staff of UnitelmaSapienza, supporting the preparation of project proposals within different national and EU programmes, as well as the administrative management of funded projects. She is also involved in research promotion activities, networking activities and in the administrative management of University funds for research.
Enrica Imbert Associate Professor UnitelmaSapienza
Enrica Imbert works on topics related to sustainable development and sustainable transitions. She obtained a PhD in ‘Economic Development, Finance and International Cooperation’ at Sapienza University of Rome in 2015 and, currently, she is a Senior Researcher in Economic Policy at Unitelma Sapienza where she teaches, among others, Environmental Economics and Sustainability Policy.
Read more She devoted over the last years particular attention to bio-based products focusing on the socio-economic dimension of the sustainability transitions, which included the application of Social life cycle analysis when assessing the sustainability of new products, socio-economic opportunities specifically related to new jobs creation especially when adopting circular bioeconomy approaches (e.g. exploiting organic wastes), opportunities coming from shorter value chains and impact in reducing regional inequalities. Most of these analyses have been published in peer reviewed journals.
Ilenia Manetti Researcher UnitelmaSapienza
Ilenia Manetti is a Research Fellow, collaborating in BiT-RG projects related to social, economic and environmental sustainability as part of the transition to circular bioeconomy. Experienced in project management and M&E for international cooperation projects and in qualitative research activities for European projects dealing with agrifood sustainability.
Read more After a BA Degree in Cultural and Linguistic Mediation (Scuola Superiore per Mediatori Linguistici di Pisa) and a MA Degree in Development and International Cooperation Sciences (Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza), she obtained a Master in 2021 in Food Security and Human Development (Università degli Studi Roma Tre).
Her professional background is characterized by experiences in the nonprofit sector where she has been involved in the writing, management and monitoring of national and international funded projects dealing with global citizenship education and sustainable development. During her experience as a Research Fellow at CREA (Council for Agricultural Research and Economics), Centre for Policies and Bioeconomy, she supported qualitative data analysis, reporting activities and scientific papers on short food supply chains sustainability, taking also part in activities related to food policies analysis.
Stella Santos Researcher Università di Roma La Sapienza
Stella Santos is a research fellow on BiT-RG projects, and she is working on the project ‘Protecting the Environment: Advances in Circular Economy (PEACE) with a focus on the social dimension. She is a PhD Student at University “La Sapienza” University of Rome; her project research is focused on social sustainability discourses and knowledge networks. Her research interests include global governance, the role of social and knowledge actors in the public sphere, and public policies, with a particular focus on the domains of sustainability, antiracism, and migration. Her research approach is primarily qualitative.
Read moreShe worked in collaboration with the Italian Ministry of Ecological Transition (MiTE) – currently named Ministry of the Environment and Energy Security- on a participatory national Forum, under the coordination of Professor Giulio Moini. Concerning her education, she completed her bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences at the University of São Paulo. She pursued her studies by graduating in Applied Social Sciences at “La Sapienza”, University of Rome”. Her dissertation investigated the differences and similarities of the actions form from civil society organizations against racism by observing two case studies: one in Brazil and the other in Italy.
Federica Testa Intern UnitelmaSapienza
Federica Testa, a recent graduate in International Cooperation and Development, is deeply committed to sustainable development and international cooperation. She is currently contributing as an intern at BiT RG, specializing in Project design and Management.
Gülşah Yılan Researcher UnitelmaSapienza
Gülşah Yilan is a researcher with a strong interest in life cycle assessment, sustainability analysis, and circular economy. She is actively engaged in Horizon Europe projects the BiT-RG is contributing to as a project manager and also as a researcher. Her recent publications appear in leading journals including Scientific Reports and Journal of Cleaner Production. She also acts as a guest editor for Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry (Elsevier) and a reviewer for Energy Exploration & Exploitation (SAGE), Journal of Cleaner Production (Elsevier), Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management (Springer, Nature) and Applied Energy (Elsevier).
Read moreGülşah holds a PhD degree in chemical engineering. She worked as a Research and Teaching Assistant in the Chemical Engineering Department of Marmara University, Istanbul (Turkey) and now continues her research activities under the BiT-RG as a postdoctoral researcher.
Associate Fellows:
Idiano D’Adamo Associate professor Sapienza – UnitelmaSapienza
Idiano D’Adamo is an Associate Professor of Management Engineering at the Department of Computer, Control, and Management Engineering of Sapienza University of Rome, where he teaches Business Management, Economics of Technology and Management and Economics and Management of Energy Sources and Services. Idiano was among world’s top 2% scientists for third consecutive year.
Read moreHe received the Master of Science in Management Engineering in 2008 and the Ph.D. in Electrical and Information Engineering in 2012. Both from the University of L’Aquila. He worked in the University of Sheffield, the National Research Council of Italy, Politecnico di Milano, University of L’Aquila and Unitelma Sapienza – University of Rome. In August 2015, he obtained the Elsevier Atlas Price with a work published in Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. He collaborates continuously with several journals: as Editor in Chief (Sustainability), as Associate Editor (Environment, Development and Sustainability, Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management, Frontiers in Sustainability), as Editorial Board Member of Scientific Reports (a journal from the publishers of Nature), as Guest Editor (e.g., Journal of Cleaner Production, Sustainable Production and Consumption), as Reviewer for about 100 journals indexed in Scopus. During its academic career, Idiano D’Adamo published 112 papers in the Scopus database, reaching an h-index of 39. He has participated in scientific research projects (Horizon 2020 “Star ProBio”, Life “Force of the Future”), has collaborated with relevant
national institutes (MATTM, CNBBSV, SVIMEZ) and has written for major national newspapers (Formiche, il Messaggero). His current research interests are bioeconomy, circular economy, green energy, sustainability and waste management.
Dalia D’Amato Researcher University of Helsinki
Dalia D’Amato is a Senior Researcher at the Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE). She is also affiliated as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Helsinki (Department of Forest Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry), and as a member of the Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science (HELSUS). Before gaining her PhD in forest economics and marketing at the University of Helsinki (2016), she completed two MSc degrees related to ecology and biodiversity manaagement from the University of Sussex (UK) and the University of Roma Tre (Italy).
Read moreCurrent research interests include solution-oriented sustainability narratives, such as the green, circular, and bioeconomy, and related societal and organisational transformations; business sustainability in the forest sector and other land use-intensive sectors; biodiversity-underpinned ecosystem services and the governance of socio-ecological systems, including the role of science-policy interfaces. She serves as an editor for the journal Circular Economy and Sustainability (Springer), the journal Frontiers in Sustainability (Frontiers) and the journal Canadian Journal of Forest Research (Canadian Science Publishing).
Fedra Francocci Researcher CNR IAS
With a Master degree in Industrial and Environmental Biotechnology and a PhD in Botanical Science at Sapienza University of Rome, she dedicated the beginning of her carreer to the study of biomass as a potential feedstock for biofuels production. She worked in the Department of Biology and Biotechnology “Charles Darwin” Sapienza University of Rome until 2014 carrying on collaborations with international research group in the field of plant biology.
Read moreSince 2015 she is at the National Research Council where she has undertaken activities dealing with the study of bio-based value chains tailored to biorefinery purposes. In particular, at the Research Institute on Terrestrial Ecosystems (IRET-CNR), she developed projects focused on the valorisation of plant species (such as hemp) grown on contaminated soils with the aim to convert phyto-technologies into sustainable production chains. The study on bioeconomy principles applied to local communities and marginal/contaminated lands, received an award in the contest of River’s Contracts in 2018. She is now dedicating to the Blue bioeconomy field and plastic pollution with a focus on Mediterranean basin in the frame of the Interreg MED project MISTRAL.
Donald Huisingh Honorary Member UnitelmaSapienza
Donald Huisingh is skilled in interdisciplinary education and holistic approaches to defining and solving society’s problems so that effective and equitable progress can be made toward Sustainable Societies. He is skilled in course and curriculum development in topics ranging from Sustainable Development and Regional Sustainable Development, to more detailed issues such as: Impacts of Climate Changes, Cleaner Production, Toxic Use Reduction, Life Cycle Thinking, System’s Thinking Industrial Ecology, Circular Economy, Pollution Prevention, Eco-efficiency and Eco-effectivity.
Read moreProf. Huisingh is the Founder and was the Editor-in-Chief for the first 23 years of its publication. He is now Emeritus Editor, of the JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION, which is an Elsevier Science Publication, that is being published for the 26th year of publication. It’s 2016 Impact Factor is: 5.715, http://ees.elsevier.com/jclepro/default.asp.
He is also co-founder and member of the editorial board of “The International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education,” an Emerald Press Publication that is now in the 17th year of publication.
He is co-founder of the Erasmus International Off-Campus Ph. D. Program in Cleaner Production, Cleaner Products, Industrial Ecology and Sustainable Development, which is now in its 24th year in Erasmus University in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
He is among the founders of the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE) of Lund University, which now teaching its 25thgroup of M. Sc. Students. He has taught, part-time in each of the 25 years of the IIIEE’s classes.
He has worked in universities, governments and Industries in 80 countries, since receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in June 1965.
Luana Ladu Researcher TUB – Technische Universität Berlin
Luana Ladu is a senior research Research Fellow at the Chair of Innovation Economics of the Technische Universität Berlin (TUB) and at the department of Quality Infrastructure of the Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM). She holds a PhD in Economics from the Technische Universität Berlin (Germany), a M. Sc. in Economics from UFBA (Brazil) and a Degree in Law and Business Administration (Master equivalent) from Bocconi University (Italy). She has eighteen years of professional experience in research and in international development cooperation in the fields of bioeconomy, sustainability, education, labour market policy, digitalization and ICT for development.
Read moreShe is the coordinator of the Horizon Europe STAR4BBS project, leading the development of a monitoring system for assessing the
effectiveness and robustness of existing certification schemes and labels, applicable to biological feedstock and bio-based products. She is involved in the implementation of other National and EU bioeconomy related projects. In addition, she is involved in the implementation a study which investigates the digitalization of conformity assessment bodies in Germany and other twenty countries.
Federico Rossi Researcher UnitelmaSapienza
Federico Rossi started his collaboration with the BiT-RG in 2022 after graduating cum laude from the Master II in Politics and International Relations at LUMSA University. Under the supervision of Prof. Piergiuseppe Morone, he wrote and discussed a thesis on the environmental impact of North-South waste trade.
Read moreHe also holds a Law Degree from the University of Turin and is currently undergoing its legal traineeship. His main areas of specialisation are European Union law, human rights law, and climate change law, all of which he explored in his master’s thesis on the role of human rights in climate change litigation. Passionate about environmental sustainability, public policy, and international cooperation, Federico approached these subjects on several occasions both at his home universities and during two exchange programmes, at the Autonomous University of Madrid (Spain) and the Center for Transnational Legal Studies (United Kingdom).
Edgardo Sica Associate Professor Università di Foggia
Edgardo Sica is Associate Professor of Economics at the DEMeT, University of Foggia (Italy). He obtained a PhD in Technology and Innovation Management at the SPRU, University of Sussex (UK).
Read moreHis main research interest lies in the analysis of sustainability transitions with a particular focus on the biofuel niche.
PHD Students:
Francesca Bonelli PhD student Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori di Pavia
Francesca Bonelli is a PhD student in Sustainable Development and Climate Change at Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori di Pavia. Her project, under the supervision of Prof. Piergiuseppe Morone, is “Reuse, reduce, recycle: challenges and opportunities in the fashion industry”. In 2021 she obtained a double masters’ degree in international relations at the University of Florence and the Moscow State Institute of International Relations.
Read moreShe started working on themes relating to sustainable development and circular economy in 2022, during a second level master in Politics and International Relations at LUMSSA University, writing her final thesis on the phenomenon of fast fashion, with a specific focus on Global North/ South disparities.
Carlo Ciucani PhD student University of Chieti-Pescara
Carlo Ciucani is a PhD student in Business and Behavioural Sciences at the University of Chieti-Pescara (Italy). He graduated in 2020 from a master’s degree in Economics at LUISS University in Rome.
Read moreHis research focus is on behavioral and experimental economics, with an interest in various subjects, such as creativity and innovation, gender differences, and risk attitude. He also reviewed articles for several journals, including Theory and Decision, Scientific Reports, and Journal of Behavioral Economics for Policy. As a part of his research and PhD activities, he is often a visiting scholar at GREDEG (Côte d’Azur University, France).
National PhD student in Sustainable Development and Climate Change, at Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori of Pavia, curriculum on socio-economic risk and impact. Hosted by UnitelmaSapienza for the project “Food system and biodiversity loss: a transition to more sustainable behaviours”.
Read moreFrancesca graduated cum laude in 2021 in Environmental Economics at University Roma Tre with a final dissertation on the relation between international trade and biodiversity. She has a Master on Sustainable Development, Geopolitics of Resources and Artic Studies at SIOI (Italian Society for International Organisation), with a thesis on “the effects of climate change on ecosystem functioning and biodiversity, with a focus on the Arctic ecosystem”. She did an internship at ENEA (National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development) on Circular Economy and a research scholarship at CREA (Council for Agricultural Research and the analysis of Agricultural Economics) on Social Agriculture.
Eleonora Staffieri PhD student Università di Roma La Sapienza
Eleonora Staffieri is a second year PhD student in Social and Economic Sciences at the University of Rome “Sapienza” (Italy). Previously, in 2018 she earned a degree in Ecotoxicology and Environmental Sustainability at the University of Siena.
Read moreIn 2020 she attended a Master in Energy & Green Management at the 24Ore Business School in Milan and she did an internship at the Italian Federation on the Rational Use of Energy (FIRE), where she worked on the use of microalgal for energy purposes. After, she collaborated with IAS-CNR and ARPA Sicilia on the project “Biogoal – from areas with high environmental risk to the circular bioeconomy to build regional strategies, starting from the SDGs “. Her main research interests’ range to different disciplines, from social sciences to economics, focusing on the issues of sustainability, circular bioeconomy and green finance, and their role in the sustainable transition.
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