Editors

Series Editor
  • Emilio Bartezzaghi
  • Giampio Bracchi
  • Adalberto Del Bo
  • Ferran Sagarra Trias
  • Francesco Stellacci
  • Enrico Zio

About the Editor

Emilio Bartezzaghi is Full Professor of Business Management in the Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering of the Politecnico di Milano,and he is Vice President of the Politecnico di Milano Foundation, a member of the Evaluation Committee of the University of Verona and from 2004 until 2008 served as delegate of the Rector for Internationalization at the Politecnico di Milano. He served as Director of the Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering of the Politecnico di Milano and as President of the MIP Business School of the Politecnico di Milano. He has also been President of AiIG (Italian Association of Management Engineering), a member of the board of EUROMA - European Operations Management Association and Professor of EIASM (European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management) in Brussels. Currently he is coordinator of a large project relating to the reorganization of Justice Courts in Lombardy. He is a member of the Committee for the Protection of the Impartiality of Certiquality (certification body). 

Giampio Bracchi is Full Professor of Information Systems at Politecnico di Milano, where he also served as Deputy Rector and chairman of the Technology Transfer Unit from 1990 to 2002. Since 2003 he has been chairman of the Politecnico Foundation. His professional interests lie in the fields of information systems, innovation in finance, and technology transfer. On these topics he has been widely engaged in strategic and management consultancy for large companies, and served as chairman of committees in many private and governmental organizations. He has also served as an advisor to the Italian government, and a member of the scientific and technical committees of the Italian Ministry of Research and of many research and cultural institutions.

Adalberto Del Bo is currently teaching Architectural and Urban Design at the School of Architecture Urbanism Construction Engineering, of which he is also the Deputy Dean. He has served as a member of the Politecnico di Milano Administrative Board, of the Fondazione Politecnico, and as a Delegate for South-Central Asia relationships. From 2014 to 2017 he was Vice-President of the EAAE European Association for Architectural Education. He had lectured in many countries and published extensively on the theoretical and practical aspects of architectural and urban design and construction.

Ferran Sagarra Trias is an architect and tenured faculty member of the Department of Urban and Territorial Planning at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). He served as Director of its Escola Tècnica Superior d’Arquitectura de Barcelona from 2008 to 2014, as President of the Conference of Deans of Spanish Architectural Schools, and as a member of the European Association  of Architectural Education (EAAE) Council. He has also Coordinator of the laboratory “Sustainable Architecture of Multi-Scale Projects”, and a Visiting Professor at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) and at the Facultée d’Amenagement, University of Montreal. An External Examiner for Dublin’s UCD and other schools, he has also been a member of the Institut d’Estudis Catalans IEC (Catalan Academy) since 2013.

Francesco Stellacci is currently a Full Professor of the Institute of Materials at the EPFL, Lausanne. After graduated, he moved to the Chemistry Department of the University of Arizona, where he worked as a post-doc in the group led by Joe Perry, in close collaboration with Seth Marder’s group. In 2002 he moved to the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, serving as an Assistant Professor and later Associate Professor (2006). Holding the Alcan EP Chair, Francesco was one of the recipients of the Technology Review TR35 “35 Innovators under 35” award in 2005, and of the Popular Science Magazine “Brilliant 10” award in 2007. He has been a Packard Fellow since 2005.

Enrico Zio completed MSc degrees in Nuclear Engineering (Politecnico di Milano, 1991) and Mechanical Engineering (UCLA, 1995), and PhDs in Nuclear Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano and in Probabilistic Risk Assessment at MIT in 1996 and 1998, respectively. He is currently a Full Professor at the Centre for Research on Risk and Crises (CRC) of Ecole de Mines, ParisTech, PSL University, France, Full Professor and President of the Alumni Association at Politecnico di Milano, Italy, an Eminent Scholar at Kyung Hee University, Republic of Korea, Distinguished Guest Professor at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, Adjunct Professor at City University of Hong Kong, Beihang University and Wuhan University, China and Co-Director of the Center for REliability and Safety of Critical Infrastructures (CRESCI) and the Sino-French laboratory of Risk Science and Engineering (RISE) at Beihang University, Beijing, China.