Vincenzo Torretta

Since 2020 he has been a full professor at the University of Insubria in Varese, teaching ""Major accidents and risk analysis"" and ""Studies and procedures for environmental compatibility"" as part of the three-year degree course in Environmental and Safety Engineering, and ""Complements of sanitary-environmental engineering"" in the master's degree course in Environmental Engineering and for the sustainability of working environments. He is a member of the Doctoral College of Chemical and Environmental Sciences (DISCA) and is President of the Bachelor and Master of Engineering degree courses. Since 2019 he has been a delegate of the Director of the Department of Theoretical and Applied Sciences for the drafting and monitoring of the Departmental Strategic Plan, since 2015 he has been a member of the three-year Commission for the distribution of the University Funds for Research - FAR and, since 2021 he has been President of the University Commission for Infrastructure Development. Since 2021 he has been Deputy Director of the Department of Theoretical and Applied Sciences. He holds positions as Editor for several international journals in the field of environmental engineering and has organised several conferences, both nationally and internationally. He is the author of several publications in journals in the field of environmental and safety engineering, with an overall Impact Factor of about 560 (discounted to the year 2021) and Hindex of 33 (Scopus, June 2022). More than 310 publications are available on the Cineca-MIUR website, of which 200 are reported on the Scopus database (June 2022). He is also the author of the volumes ""Safety and risk analysis of major accidents"" (Sistemi Editoriali, 2006), ""Studies and procedures for environmental impact assessment"" (Flaccovio Editore, 2010), ""Environmental health engineering"" (Flaccovio Editore, 2015), ""Environmental assessment and impact - Technical-operational manual for the elaboration of environmental impact studies"" (Hoepli, 2016) and ""Studies and procedures for environmental compatibility"" (Litissea Ed., 2022). He is co-inventor of a solution for the treatment of gaseous effluents for which a patent has been granted. His research activity covers the fields of: energy recovery from biomass and waste, treatment of gaseous effluents by chemical-physical and biological processes, environmental and safety modelling, new technologies for wastewater treatment, reuse of material from solid waste, solid waste management and treatment.