Marco Bezzi is an environmental engineer: when the Environment is not only the research interest but also the best playground for his favourite activities such as Windsurfing and Mountain climbing.

After his PhD in the Analysis of Natural Hazard in Mountain Areas, Marco Bezzi is dealing with teaching activity in Water Resources Management and Irrigation System and he is lecturer in the course “Practical Stage in Environmental Context” at the University of Trento for the UNESCO chair.

His academic activity is integrated with free-lance activity at national and international level facilitating the match-point between the theoretical and the applied engineering.

Marco Ciolli is an assistant professor in Forest Management and Geographic Information Systems applied to environment and landscape planning.  He teaches Applied Ecology at the University of Trento and is teacher and organizer of the Summer School: Tropical rainforest biodiversity: field and GIS tools for assessing, monitoring and mapping that takes place every year in Tanzania at the Udzungwa Mountains National Park.

He has teached in South Africa, Rwanda, Tanzania and is involved in many international research projects. He loves forests, nature and biodiversity and is particularly fond of Tropical Ecosystems both marine and terrestrial. He uses and support Free and Open Source software since 1995 and is member of OSGEO.

Personal page: http://www.ing.unitn.it/~ciolli/mc.htm

Corrado Diamantini is a professor of the Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering.

He says to himself: I have always been dealing with planning. At least since I graduated in architecture, many years ago, choosing a degree thesis in regional planning.

That's because I have always imagined my work as an interface between a technical and scientific dimension, on one hand, and a social and political one, on the other. In over forty years of experience, I have always tried to intertwine my academic activity – mainly research on the processes generating territorial transformations - with that of planner.

So I found myself at work, as well as in Italy, in Africa, where I carried out planning experiences in Somalia, Senegal, Ethiopia, Morocco, Madagascar and Mozambique. I never separated this activity from the reflection held on central themes, today, of planning, always trying to introduce in the planning practices issues such as the reduction of inequalities, the attention paid to environmental processes and the involvement of affected communities in decisions.

Davide Geneletti is a researcher of the Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering.

Davide Geneletti‘s fields of expertise include impact assessment (EIA, SEA, sustainability appraisal), ecosystem services, spatial decision analysis, and land use planning. He is interested in the combination of these areas to support the development of policies, plans and projects that are more sustainable with respect to current practice.

Davide was a Research Fellow in the Sustainability Science Program at Harvard University, and consulted for national and international bodies, including UNEP, UN-Habitat and the UK Government.

Personal webiste: www.ing.unitn.it/~genelett

Angela Ortigara is a research fellow at the Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering.

Angela is Brazilian, coming from a small city in the south where she lived most of her life. She started working young, as most Brazilians do, both to help her family and to pay her university fees. In 2007 she graduated in her city. After that she moved to Florianopolis, 450 km to the east, where she pursued her M.Sc. in Environmental Engineering (2009) before moving to Italy to attend her PhD in Environmental Engineering at UNITN (2013).

During all her life she has always been concerned about the conservation of water resources, the importance of wastewater treatment for the wellbeing of people and the environment, and the need for an inclusive development. After years doing research in the field of wastewater treatment, her interests have now expanded to include the application of available water and wastewater treatment technologies to fight poverty, the development of consistent policies and implementation strategies.

Today she is a research fellow at the University of Trento, working in a EuropeAid project, which aims to integrate development issues into engineering education. Just a first step to let science solve social problems.

Besides science and sustainable development, she enjoys travelling, especially on a bicycle.

Guido Zolezzi is a member of the Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering.

Environment and people: Guido Zolezzi particularly enjoys interacting with and understanding both of them, and this is a continuous source of motivation for his research and educational activities.

Guido is presently the Chairholder of the UNESCO Chair in Engineering for Human and Sustainable Development at the University of Trento, and the Director the SMART Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate (http://www.riverscience.it).

He is enrolled as assistant professor in Hydraulics and is the reference person for the University of Trento at CUCS, the National University Network for Development Cooperation. His research interests are river morphodynamics, environmental hydraulics, eco-hydraulics  in natural and regulated streams and water resources management in the developing world. Guido’s research is most within the GIAMT research group (http://www.unitn.it/en/giamt).

Massimo Zortea is a member of the Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering.

Massimo Zortea is a lawyer, specialized in Environmental Law (http://www.zorteasandri.it), experienced of International Cooperation, particularly environmental. He has carried out missions in around 50 Countries. He holds the courses Methodologies of International Cooperation and Planning Development with Environmental Mainstreaming. He collaborates with several environmental education and training institutions (TuttoAmbiente, IPSOA-WKI, Ecoopera, IAL FVG, Ecipa BZ). He’s a member of some research groups. He’s also committed for over twenty years in NGOs’ world, where he has assumed directive charges at national and international levels.

In 2010 he was awarded with the Quietly Brilliant Award by HTC and World Vision Italy ("for having interpreted in his social commitment the HTC’s philosophy of making great things with humility").

His family is cross-cutting sea and mountain (his wife and child were born in Sardinia); great lover of mountains and of Alpinism, as soon as his job allows him he applies himself to ascensions, especially in his Dolomites.