Riccardo Mereu
Riccardo Mereu is currently Associate Professor at Department of Energy of Politecnico di Milano and lecturer of the course “Innovative Technologies for Energy” and “Sustainable Development”. His research mainly focuses on numerical modeling of energy industrial components and systems and application of sustainable energy technologies with particular attention to Developing Countries. Since 2010 he has been involved in different national and international projects with universities, NGOs and energy companies for modeling and optimization of energy systems and components for international private companies. He has been and his currently member / task and WP co-leader of several international projects: LEAP-RE and PRE-LEAP H2020 (Africa), European projects Sustainable Energy Engineering (Kenya, Tanzania and Ethiopia), Modern Energy services in refugee camps (Lebanon, Somalia, RCA and Colombia) and Capacity Building in Engineering (Tanzania). Since 2007 he is project engineer and actually Vice-President of Engineering Without Borders – Milan (ISF-MI) operating as member and responsible of the Energy Working Group, with focus on design and developing appropriate technologies and related modeling tools. He is author of more than 100 scientific papers, 43 of which in Scopus with more than 1000 citations, H-Index 14.