Alberto Tiraferri

Associate Professor

Department of Environmental and Infrastructural Engineering (DIATI), Politecnico di Torino (ICAR/03 field)

Chair of the Commission for Research and Transfer of Technology of DIATI

Scientific Manager of the Interdepartmental CleanWaterCenter@PoliTo at Politecnico di Torino

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 (Sanitary and Environmental Engineering). Prof. Tiraferri received his B.Sc. from Università Politecnica delle Marche (Ancona, Italy) and 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.

Dr. Tiraferri teaches in the fall semester the Masters’ courses “Environmental and Contaminant Dynamics” and co-instructs “Reclamation of Polluted Sites”. In the spring semester, he co-instructs the Masters’ course “Advanced Water and Wastewater Treatment” and the PhD course “Water Desalination: Processes, Materials, and the Future”.