Associate Professor
Department of Environmental and Infrastructural Engineering (DIATI), Politecnico di Torino (ICAR/03 field)
Scientific Manager of the Interdepartmental CleanWaterCenter@PoliTo
Referent for Research of DIATI
Alberto Tiraferri research interests are in: (i) membrane process engineering for water treatment and resource efficiency, (ii) decontamination and water purification using advanced oxidation, (iii) applications of innovative techniques for the reclamation of contaminated environment systems, (iv) contaminant dynamics in water.
Brief bio
Alberto Tiraferri is Professore Associato L. 240 (equivalent to Associate Professor) in the Department of Environment, Land and Infrastructure Engineering (DIATI) at Politecnico di Torino, in the field ICAR/03 (Applied Environmental Engineering). Prof. Tiraferri received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 2012 in Chemical and Environmental Engineering. During his doctoral work, he conducted research under the supervision of Prof. Menachem Elimelech. Subsequently, Prof. Tiraferri worked for two years as a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow in the lab of Prof. Borkovec at the University of Geneva in Switzerland. His research interests include (i) membrane process engineering for water treatment and resource efficiency, (ii) decontamination and water purification using advanced oxidation, (iii) applications of innovative techniques for the reclamation of contaminated environment systems, (iv) contaminant dynamics in water.
In the fall semester, Dr. Tiraferri teaches the Masters’ course “Environment and Contaminant Dynamics” and co-instructs the Bachelor course “Water and Wastewater Treatment”. In the spring semester, he co-instructs the Masters’ course “Advanced Water and Wastewater Treatment Processes” and the Ph.D. course “Water Desalination: Processes, Materials, and the Future”.