Special Session 4

SPECIAL SESSION #4

Loredana Cristaldi

Politecnico di Milano, Italy

• loredana.cristaldi@polimi.it

Marco Sacco

STIIMA, National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Italy

• marco.sacco@stiima.cnr.it

Flaviana Tagliaferri

Hochschule Mittweida, University of Applied Sciences, Germany

• tagliafe@hs-mittweida.de

The interaction among productivity, sustainability, and enabling technologies has become increasingly pivotal. This special session aims to offer a comprehensive overview of the complex connections within funded projects. By exploring the dimensions of productivity, sustainability, and enabling technologies, we seek valuable insights into the evolving dynamics that shape successful and forward-thinking project initiatives. This exploration extends across different areas, including energy, industry, agriculture, and health, and underscores the crucial role of education in shaping the perspectives of new generations.

Topics of interest for this Special Session include but are not limited to:

• Sustainability, Enabling technologies in:
• Energy;
• Industry;
• Agriculture;
• Health;
• Funded projects;
• Education;

Loredana Cristaldi, (S’91–M’01–SM’06) received the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Catania, Catania, in 1992, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy, in 1995. In 1999, she joined the Dipartimento di Elettrotecnica, Politecnico di Milano as an Assistant Professor of electrical and electronic measurements. She is a Full Professor with the Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria, Politecnico di Milano. Her current research interests include the measurements of electric quantities under nonsinusoidal conditions, virtual instruments, and measurement methods for reliability, monitoring, and fault diagnosis.
Prof. Cristaldi is a Counsellor of the IEEE Student Branch of the Politecnico di Milano and a member of the TC 315 CEI (WG6) and TC56 CEI.

Marco Sacco, graduated in Computer Science, first researcher at the CNR since 2001 at the STIIMA institute (Intelligent Industrial Systems and Technologies for Advanced Manufacturing), I was head of the Engineering and Virtual Applications group and head of the Virtual and Augmented Reality laboratory. President of the EuroXR (European Association for Extended Realities technologies) from 2015 to 2021. Currently head of the Lecco branch of STIIMA (Smart and Human Centred Living Environment) and member of the steering committee of the Bi-Rex consortium (competence center on Big-Data and Industry 4.0 technologies). Coordinator of numerous projects at EU, national and regional level and evaluator both for the European Commission (DG-RTD and DG-Connect) and at national (MISE) and regional (Marche and Autonomous Province of Trento) level of research and innovation projects.

Flaviana Tagliaferri graduated in 2008 with the best score in Mechanical Engineering at ‘Tor Vergata’ University, Rome (Italy).
Between 2006 and 2009 she worked for IACOBUCCI HF Electronics S.p.A. company, operating in the aerospace sector. After achieving her doctorate in 2012 at the University of Naples ‘Federico II’ (Italy) she won a Post-Doc grant (funded by DAAD - Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) to work at the Institute for Machine Tools and Production Processes (IWP) of Chemnitz University of Technology, (TU Chemnitz, Germany). Her focus was on innovative cutting technology. From 2012 to 2017 she worked as a research fellow at the Department of Industrial Engineering University of Naples, Federico II. At the same time and until 2018 she was a research associate at IWP of TU Chemnitz. Since July 2017 she has been a lecturer at Niccolò Cusano University, Rome (Italy), teaching ‘Manufacturing materials and technologies for the food industry’. Since October 2018 she has been a researcher at the Mittweida University of Applied Sciences, under the chair for Systems Electronics, and a lecturer, teaching ‘Industry 4.0 - Responsible Consumption and Production’.