Simone Bastianoni is Full Professor of Environmental and Cultural Heritage Chemistry at the University of Siena. He is Chair of the PhD School in Environmental, Geological and Polar Sciences, and Delegate for Sustainability for University of Siena. He teaches courses at the MS degree in Environmental Sciences: Ecodynamics; Life Cycle Assessment and Environmental Certification; Sustainability.
Education – 1990: MS degree in Electronical Engineering at the University of Padua; 1993-94: Visiting scholar at the University of Florida (Department of Environmental Engineering, with H.T. Odum); 1995: Ph.D. in Chemical Sciences at the Universities of Siena and Perugia. 1999: Visiting scholar at the Royal Danish School of Pharmacy (Department of Pharmaceutics and Analytical Chemistry – Section of Environmental Chemistry, with S.E. Jørgensen).
Research area – Sustainability indicators (e.g. based on Emergy evaluation, Ecological Footprint, Greenhouse Gases Balance, Life Cycle Assessment, Exergy analysis, etc.); Energy and bio-energy systems; application of thermodynamics to ecological systems and of kinetic models to systems of environmental relevance.
Awards – In 2004 he received the first Prigogine Junior Medal for research in complex systems. He received the “2001 Meritorious Award” from the International Institute for Advanced Studies in Systems Research and Cybernetics.
Memberships – President of the Emergy Society; Member of the Standard Committee of the Global Footprint Network; Organization of the Footprint Forum 2006 and the Footprint Forum 2010; Member of the Italian Chemical Society
Editorial Boards – Specialty Chief Editor of the journal “Frontiers in Energy Systems and Policy”. He is member of the Editorial Boards of Ecological Modelling, Ecological Indicators, and of The ScientificWorld Journal; Editor of the section Human Ecology and Sustainability of the 2nd edition of the Encyclopedia of Ecology and has been editor of the section Ecological Indicators of the first edition.
Among his latest publications:
– Gabbi, G., Matthias, M., Patrizi, N., Pulselli, F.M., & Bastianoni, S. (2021). The biocapacity adjusted economic growth. Developing a new indicator. ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS, 122, 10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.107318
– Patrizi, N., Bruno, M., Saladini, F., Parisi, M.L., Pulselli, R.M., Bjerre, A.B., et al. (2020). Sustainability Assessment of Biorefinery Systems Based on Two Food Residues in Africa. FRONTIERS IN SUSTAINABLE FOOD SYSTEMS, 4
– Giannetti, B.F., Almeida, C.M.V.B., Agostinho, F., Sulis, F., Coscieme, L., Pulselli, F.M., et al. (2020). Enzo Tiezzi, turning pioneering into modern ideas: tempos, Ecodynamics and sustainable economy. ECOLOGICAL MODELLING, 431, 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2020.109162
– Pulselli, R.M., Marchi, M., Neri, E., Marchettini, N., & Bastianoni, S. (2019). Carbon accounting framework for decarbonisation of European city neighbourhoods. JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION, 208, 850-868, 10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.10.102
– Patrizi, N., Pulselli, R.M., Neri, E., Niccolucci, V., Vicinanza, D., Contestabile, P., et al. (2019). Lifecycle environmental impact assessment of an overtopping wave energy converter embedded in breakwater systems. FRONTIERS IN ENERGY RESEARCH, 7(APR), 10.3389/fenrg.2019.00032
– Orr, D.W., Niccolucci, V., & Bastianoni, S. (2019). Ecological Systems Thinking, 4, 283-287
– Casini, M., Bastianoni, S., Gagliardi, F., Gigliotti, M., Riccaboni, A., & Betti, G. (2019). Sustainable development goals indicators: A methodological proposal for a multidimensional fuzzy index in the mediterranean area. SUSTAINABILITY, 11(4), 1-25, 10.3390/su11041198
– Vanham, D., Leip, A., Galli, A., Kastner, T., Bruckner, M., Uwizeye, A., et al. (2019). Environmental footprint family to address local to planetary sustainability and deliver on the SDGs. SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT, 693, 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.133642