BERTANZA Giorgio

Full Professor (since march 2005, after being Assistant Professor (1998-2001) and Associate Professor (2001-2005) in Sanitary-Environmental Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Brescia. Graduated in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Brescia in 1990, he was assigned of the Ph. D. in Sanitaring Engineering at Technical University of Milan. Reserch activity (as a member of research groups or scientific responsible of project financed with national or european funds) deals mainly with the following topics: technologies for upgrading of Waste Water Treatment Plants (W.W.T.P.), performance testing and operation criteria of W.W.T.P., landfill leachate and industrial wastewater treatment, solid waste recycling, treatment and disposal. Prof. Bertanza is author or co-author of more than 160 scientific works (published on national or international journals, conference proceedings, books etc.) and participated (as author of accepted papers) at about 80 national and internatinal conferences. Prof. Bertanza is co-inventor of two patents. He is Secretary of Specialist Group on AOPs (Advanced Oxidation Processes) within IWA (International Water Association); furthermore, he is member of the International Programme Committee of specialised international conferences on Advanced Chemical Oxidation organized by IWA.
He is tutor or co-tutor of about one hundred university diploma theses and tutor of Ph. D. theses.