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Lives in:: Milan

Department:: Department of Energy - Politecnico di Milano

Title/rank:: Ph.D., Researcher

Years of public service:: 6

Agency structure:: other

Top issues in your department:: Energy conversion, Heat transfer, Fire safety engineering

Professional Qualifications:: P.E., Member of CTU (Technical consultants) of Novara Court, Member of Fire safety expert list of Italian Internal Affairs Ministry

Topics you provide training for:: Fire modelling, Fire protection strategies optmization

Areas of expertise:: Smoke control, Water mist, Fire tornadoes

Bio:: Born in Novara (Italy) - 23.11.68

Academicals titles
Electrotechnical Engineering M.S. Degree (Politecnico di Milano);
Risk Engineering Master (Cineas – Insurance Engineering University Consortium);
Energetics Ph.D. (Energetics Department of Politecnico di Milano), c** laude, Thesis – Dissertation: “Fire control, suppression and extinction effectiveness assessment of water mist systems”.

Professional qualifications
Member of Engineers order of Novara;
Fire safety expert (Internal Affairs Ministry list according to Law 818/84).

Training qualifications
“Industrial plants reliability and availability assessment innovative methodologies” course (Nuclear Engineering Department of Politecnico di Milano – CESNEF);
“Design and carrying out works co-ordinator” course (construction site safety course of Building school of Novara).

Professional (private) activities
Electrical systems safety, Lightning protection systems design;
Fire protection systems design;
Civilian (residential) and industrial site lightning risk assessment;
Civilian (residential) and industrial site explosion and fire risk assessment;
Collaboration with “La Termotecnica” (Thermotechnics) and “il Giornale dell’Ingegnere” (the Journal of Engineer) editorial staff.

University activities (in collaboration with Department of Energy of Politecnico di Milano)
Seminars and tutorials inside Technical Physics, Industrial Thermotechnics and Industrial Ergotechnics university teaching courses;
M.S. Degree and Ph.D. Thesis assistant tutoring;
Member of “Water mist systems” UNI Working Group (WG of Fire active protection committee);
Fire Engineering research and consulting:
- modelling (pool fire dynamics, water mist spray, whirling flames), mainly oriented to developing ECART code;
- experimental activities (pool fire dynamics, single-fluid and twin-fluid fire suppression, whirling flames);
- civilian (residential) and industrial site fire risk assessment (multi-floor buildings, underground metro lines, …);
- fire scenario analysis by physics – mathematical correlations and numerical codes (one-dimensional - SES, three-dimensional: fast-running code - ECART and CFD code - FDS) finalized to fire safety strategies optimization (smoke control, fire control-suppression-extinction).

To day I work for Department of Energy (Politecnico di Milano) – scientific/ thematic sector: Industrial Technical Physics.

Web site:: http://www.energia.polimi.it

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