Personal Information

Fields of Interest and Expertise

Biofilm and granular sludge-based biological processes for wastewater treatment.

Resource recovery from excess sludge originating from wastewater systems.

Extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) characterization in anammox granular sludge systems.

Curriculum Vitae

2008: MSc Degree in Environmental Engineering at the University of Florence. Thesis on Anammox process applied for the treatment of leachate and municipal digestate.

2008-2009: Researcher at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Florence.

2009-2013: Researcher at the Department of Environmental Biotechnology, Delft University of Technology.

2012: PhD degree in Methods and Technologies for Environmental Monitoring at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Florence and Department of University of Basilicata.

2013-2016: Researcher at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Milan University of Technology.

2016: PhD degree in Life Sciences at the Department of Environmental Biotechnology, Delft University of Technology.

Awards

2015: Jaap van der Graaf Award 2014 Witteveen+Bos Raadgevende ingenieurs B.V., Deventer, the Netherlands

2009: Alberto Rozzi memorial prize 2009. Dep. of Civil and Environmental Engineering (DICA), Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy

• Florence

• Comparison of bacterial communities of conventional and A-stage activated sludge systems. Scientific Reports (2016)
• Distribution and microbial community structure analysis of a single-stage partial nitritation/anammox granular sludge bioreactor operating at low temperature. Environmental Technology (United Kingdom) (2016)
• Bacterial community structure of a lab-scale anammox membrane bioreactor. Biotechnology Progress (2015)
• Pilot-scale evaluation of anammox-based mainstream nitrogen removal from municipal wastewater. Environmental Technology (United Kingdom) (2015)
• Faster through training: The anammox case. Water Research (2015)