Advisory Board
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Marche Polytechnic University & International Water Association (IWA)
Francesco Fatone is Full Professor of Chemical-Environmental Engineering and Coordinator of the PhD Program in Civil, Environmental, Building Engineering and Architecture at Polytechnic University of Marche (Italy). Since 2013 Fatone raised more than 5 million euros from EU-funded projects and more than 0.5 from private funding.
He is or has been:
● Coordinator of the Horizon2020 Innovation Action "SMART-Plant" and Work Package leader of: n.2 Horizon Europe; n.6 Horizon2020 projects; n.2 PRIMA/Horizon2020; n.2 Water JPI; n. 2 LIFE+; n. 1 ENI CBC MED.
● Team member of more than 15 International R&D&I projects (FP6; FP7; Horizon2020; LIFE+).
● Editor in Chief of the H2Open Journal (IWA Publishing).
● Associate or guest editor of several scientific ISI journals, including Water Research, Process Biochemistry, Water Science and Technology.
● Member of expert committee about circular economy of the Italian Ministry of Environment.
● Chair of international conferences such as: IWA ecoSTP2014, 3rd European Nutrient Event (2018); 3rd IWA Resource Recovery Conference (2019);
● Former co-chair of the Specialist Group on Small Water and Wastewater Systems (SWWS) - International Water Association (IWA);
● Invited speaker and/or member of scientific committee of >30 international conferences;
● authors of > 120 SCOPUS-indexed paper cited > 3000 times - Hindex = 32;
● General Secretary of the IWA Resource Recovery from Water Cluster;
● Co-leader of the Cluster “Value in Water” within WATER EUROPE technological platform;
● co-leader of the WG Business Models in the European ICT4WATER Cluster;
● Member of executive board of Ecomondo with responsibility of the Water thematic area;
● IWA Fellow;
● Water JPI management board member;
● Expert of the Body of Knowledge for the Water Scarsity in Southern Europe (EIT Water Scarcity);
● Leader of Circular Water VLT in Water Europe;
● doctor honoris causa at Technical University of Iasi (Romania);
● Member of the Joint Committee of Science and Technology for IFWS and Yellow River EIC (China).
