With a background in industrial engineering , I hold a PhD degree from Interpolytechnic School of Doctorate (Politecnico di Bari, Politecnico di Milano, and Politecnico di Torino, 2010, Italy). My studies cover a variety of topics among which sustainable supply chain management, circular economic business models, bio-based economy, industrial symbiosis networks, decision-making in transition from linear to circular economy, and use of online IT platforms for sustainable business development.

My research has been supported by multiple grants won from diverse institutions. The largest and most recent one is a Horizon Europe project: "Sustainable Circular Economy Transition: from Industrial Symbiosis to Hubs for Circularity - IS2H4C", with a scale of 23,5 million euros of which 20 million euros is granted by the European Commission. I serve as the coordinator of the IS2H4C project which is going to run between 2024 and 2029.  Previously, I served as the technical manager of the the ‘SHAREBOX: Developing a secure management platform for shared process resources’ also financed by the European Commission (2015-2020).

I am a member of the Association of Sustainable Process Industries through Resource and Energy Efficiency (A.SPIRE) and serve in A.SPIRE’s Industrial and Urban Symbiosis working group contributing to A.SPIRE’s 2050 Roadmap for Sustainable Process Industries, namely Processes4Planet which aims at setting up 2050 sustainability goals of process industry and defining strategic actions to reach these goals.

I coordinate the Circular Economy Platform Twente which is a community engagement project to foster interdisciplinary research on circular economy at UT and diffuse circularity practices at regional scale in Overijssel.