ABOUT US
Terra&AcquaTech Lab
The Terra&AcquaTech Laboratory focuses on the development of innovative solutions for the environmental, agrifood and green economy sectors, capable of saving the use of resources (raw materials and energy sources), reducing waste, also through its processing, according to a circular economic perspective, and making resource management and remediation in industrial processes more efficient and sustainable.
Thanks to its specialisation and versatility in several domains, ranging from biology to chemistry, physics, engineering, and geology, the Terra&AcquaTech Laboratory delivers integrated services, such as the planning and implementation of monitoring plans, the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and production of power from renewable energy sources, the valorisation of waste for the production of chemical compounds, materials of interest for various industrial sectors, such as construction, as well as agri-food and/or cosmetic supply chains, the development of sustainable and precision technologies to be applied in agriculture, animal husbandry, aquaculture and fishing.
ICT, innovative sensors, and big data are used to enable these developments.
Scientific Committee
Luisa Pasti – Scientific Director (Department of Environmental Science and Prevention)
Giuseppe Castaldelli (Department of Environmental Science and Prevention)
Alberto Cavazzini (Department of Chemical, Pharmaceutical and Agricultural Sciences)
Paolo Ciavola (Department of Physics and Earth Sciences)
Massimo Coltorti (Department of Environmental Science and Prevention)
Simonetta Pancaldi (Department of Environmental Science and Prevention)
Stefano Alvisi (Department of Engineering)
Andrea Balbo (Department of Engineering)
Vincenzo Guidi (Department of Physics and Earth Sciences)
Fabio Mantovani (Department of Physics and Earth Sciences)
Alessandro Massi (Department of Chemical, Pharmaceutical and Agricultural Sciences)
Michele Mistri (Department of Chemical, Pharmaceutical and Agricultural Sciences)
Alessandra Guerrini (Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita e Biotecnologie)
Alberto Pellegrinelli (Department of Engineering)
Gianni Sacchetti (Department of Life Sciences and Biotechnology)
Paola Verlicchi (Department of Engineering)
Team
UR1. Water purification and quality
Silvia Rita Stazi – Department of Chemical, Pharmaceutical and Agricultural Sciences
Monica Bertoldo – Department of Chemical, Pharmaceutical and Agricultural Sciences
Pier Paolo Giovannini – Department of Chemical, Pharmaceutical and Agricultural Sciences
Michele Mistri – Department of Chemical, Pharmaceutical and Agricultural Sciences
Luisa Pasti – Department of Environmental and Prevention Sciences
UR2. Water resources, environement geochemical and geo materials
Gianluca Bianchini – Department of Physics and Earth Sciences
Riccardo Caputo – Department of Physics and Earth Sciences
Paolo Ciavola – Department of Physics and Earth Sciences
Annalisa Martucci – Department of Physics and Earth Sciences
Carmela Vaccaro – Department of Environmental and Prevention Sciences
Massimo Coltorti – Department of Physics and Earth Sciences
UR3. Management of water systems, sanitary and environmental engineering
Stefano Alvisi – Department of Engineering
Marco Franchini – Department of Engineering
Paola Verlicchi – Department of Engineering
UR4. Corrosion, metallurgy and polymeric materials
Gian Luca Garagnani – Department of Engineering
Andrea Balbo – Department of Engineering
Vincenzo Grassi – Department of Engineering
UR5. Innovative chemical strategies for agri-food valorization
Alberto Cavazzini – Department of Chemical, Pharmaceutical and Agricultural Sciences
Alessandro Massi – Department of Chemical, Pharmaceutical and Agricultural Sciences
Nicola Marchetti – Department of Chemical, Pharmaceutical and Agricultural Sciences
Annalisa Maietti – Department of Chemical, Pharmaceutical and Agricultural Sciences
Giacomo Zanni – Department of Chemical, Pharmaceutical and Agricultural Sciences
Valentina Costa – Department of Environmental and Prevention Sciences
UR6. Sustainable management andenhancement of acquatic ecosystem
Giuseppe Castaldelli – Department of Environmental and Prevention Sciences
Cristiano Bertolucci – Department of Life Sciences and Biotechnology
Luisa Giari – Department of Life Sciences and Biotechnology
Annalaura Mancia – Department of Life Sciences and Biotechnology
Simonetta Pancaldi – Department of Environmental and Prevention Sciences
Elena Tamburini – Department of Environmental and Prevention Sciences
UR7. Sustainable valorization of biomass
Gianni Sacchetti – Department of Life Sciences and Biotechnology
Alessandra Guerrini – Department of Life Sciences and Biotechnology
Stefano Manfredini – Department of Life Sciences and Biotechnology
Gaia Colombo – Department of Life Sciences and Biotechnology
Maria Cristina Tomasini – Department of Life Sciences and Biotechnology
Mauro Venturini – Department of Engineering
UR8. Environmental sensors
Vincenzo Guidi – Department of Physics and Earth Sciences
Fabio Mantovani – Department of Physics and Earth Sciences
Donato Vincenzi – Department of Physics and Earth Sciences
Cesare Malagù – Department of Physics and Earth Sciences
Angelo Taibi – Department of Physics and Earth Sciences
Giovanni Di Domenico – Department of Physics and Earth Sciences
Federico Spizzo – Department of Physics and Earth Sciences
Alberto Pellegrinelli – Department of Engineering
Lucia del Bianco – Department of Physics and Earth Sciences
Barbara Fabbri – Department of Physics and Earth Sciences