Mauro Viccaro is an Associate Professor of Agricultural and Food Economics at the University of Basilicata (Italy), where he teaches courses on Agri-food Economics and Policy and Agri-food Marketing. He holds his PhD in Agricultural, Forestry, and Food Sciences from the University of Basilicata in 2017. He has been a visiting researcher at IRPET (Italy) and NTNU (Norway), specializing in input-output analysis and models.
Throughout his career, he has collaborated with national and international institutions, including the United Nations Environment Programme, coordinating and participating in various national and international projects. His research in agricultural economics focuses on the sustainability of food systems, innovative agri-food supply chains, consumer behaviour, and the cost-effectiveness of innovative solutions in the agri-food sector, with a focus on waste reduction and bioenergy promotion.
Severino Romano is an full professor in Rural Economics and Appraisal at the University of Bailicata. Currently lecturing the courses “Rural Appraisal” and “Forest Economics and Appraisal”. His research focuses on rural economics and policy, policy evaluation and public investment analysis, economic evaluation of environmental goods, bioenergy supply chains, and cost- effectiveness of innovative solutions in the agricultural and forestry sectors.
Mario Cozzi is an Associate Professor at the University of Basilicata whose research focuses on territorial and environmental planning, rural development, sustainable forest governance, and agro-forestry economics. He teaches courses in agricultural and forestry economics, and territorial and environmental planning at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
Michele Greco is an Civil Engineer in Land Planning and Defence, PhD in Hydrodynamics, Associate Professor in Fluid Mechanics at the Engineering Department, of University of Basilicata, the fields of interest deals with enhancement of natural resources, water resources management, indexing of environmental criticalities, coastal dynamics, marine litter, environmental modelling
Francesco Genovese is an Associate Professor at the University of Basilicata. Since the beginning of his career, his research activity has focused on developing food processing technologies aimed at improving efficiency and reducing waste. He teaches courses on forest mechanization, machinery and equipment for milk production, and technologies for the valorization of by-products from the food industry.
Majid Zadmirzaei earned his Ph.D. in Forest Economics from the University of Guilan, Iran. He has served as a visiting researcher and lecturer at Mid Sweden University, Sweden, where he specialized in optimization and benchmarking methods. Currently, he is a postdoctoral researcher on the RUEESnexus Project at the University of Basilicata, Italy.
Giulio Grassi is a Ph.D. student in Agricultural, Forestry and Food Sciences. His research focuses on energy-economic models and the use of agricultural production waste for energy purposes.