Francesco FantozziFrancesco Fantozzi, MS in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Perugia, PhD in Energy and Aerospace Propulsion at the University of Pisa, is associate professor at the Department of Engineering of the University of Perugia. He is also a memberand past chair of the Coal, Biomass and Alternative Fuels Committee of the ASME and senior research expert for the European Union and the Italian government. His research interests focus on micro-scale energy conversion from biomass and waste with pyrolysis, gasification and anaerobic digestion processes, syngas and oils use in gas turbines and engines, monitoring and diagnostics of power plants, and energy and environmental footprinting. He is co-founder of the spin-off company, Biomass and New Technologies (Bionet). Read More Read Less