Vincenzo Torretta is a Full Professor of Environmental
Engineering in the Department of Theoretical and Applied Sciences, University
of Insubria, Varese, Italy. He is a member of the board of the doctorate in
Chemical and Environmental Sciences and is President of the Bachelor’s and
Master’s degree courses in Engineering at the University of Insubria. He is the
author of several publications in journals in the field of environmental and
safety engineering. 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 modeling, new technologies for
wastewater treatment, reuse of material from solid waste, and solid waste
management and treatment.