Francesca Malpei

Ph.D and Full Professor of Wastewater Treatment at Politecnico di Milano Dept.of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Head of the "A.Rozzi"and the “Environmental Engineering” laboratories (DICA Dept.) and of "Fabbrica della Bionergia” (Polo Cremona, Politecnico di Milano), a research and technology transfer center specifically focused on anaerobic processes and on green energy from wastewater/solid wastes. Her main research interest: anaerobic bioprocesses for biofuel production, including pre-treatments, biomethane by methanogenic hydrogenothrophs, EPS recovery from granular biomasses, microplastic fate and control in WW and sludge, PFAS fate and control in WW and sludge. She was recently scientific coordinator of Perform Water 2030 , a Lombardy Regione finded project to promote the development of innovative technologies and new methodological approaches leading to new paradigms in water management, in the perspective of sustainability, resource recovery and circularity”.