Alessandro Tansini is a PhD student of Energetics.
He earned his MsC in Energy Engineering at Politecnico di Milano (Italy), defending a thesis on multi-physics 3D CFD simulation of the low temperature and high efficiency combustion process for compression ignition engines. After graduation, he worked as a test engineer in the emission laboratory of MV Agusta Motorcycles, and as an on-road vehicle calibration engineer in the powertrain department of Maserati.
Currently, he is a PhD student of Energetics in Politecnico di Torino (Italy) and a Research Fellow in the European Commission Joint Research Centre in Ispra (Italy) - Sustainable Transport Unit. His activities are focused on the investigation of flexible ways of calculating CO2 emissions from light-duty and heavy-duty vehicles, with a special focus on vehicles equipped with a hybrid powertrain.

Main activities carried out in the current job position

• Participation to the pre-pilot phase test-campaign of the CO2 emissions calculation methodology for heavy-duty buses and coaches, mainly assigned to the post-processing of data obtained for the evaluation of air drag impact.
• Participation to the ECO-CHAMPS European project and main author of deliverable D1.4 (Proposal on the enhancement of CO2 declaration methods to support Hybrid Commercial Vehicles).
• Calculation of the heavy-duty trucks fleet fuel consumption baseline to support the development of the CO2 standards regulation for heavy-duty trucks.
• Literature review of relevant hybrid electric powertrains for light-duty applications. Hybrid electric vehicles testing: responsible for vehicle instrumentation and data collection. Specializing on powertrain characterisation with the use of OBD data (standard + extended PIDs), CAN data and power analyzer electrical measurements.

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