Alessandro Casasso is an Associate Professor and is part of the Groundwater Engineering Research Group since 2008. He holds a PhD in Land and Environmental Engineering (2012), earned at Politecnico di Torino, under the supervision of prof. Rajandrea Sethi.
His research activity is focused on numerical modelling of contaminant and heat transport in porous media applied to the protection, remediation, and sustainable energy use of groundwater. He is also interested in the environmental impact assessment of energy (biogas, building heating) and water treatment plants.
He was PI of the Politecnico research unit and WP leader in the GRETA project (2016-2018), funded by the EU program INTERREG – Alpine Space (overall 2.9 M€ budget), aimed at the sustainable growth of shallow geothermal energy use. He is currently the PI for the PITER Alpimed INNOV project (2019-2022), funded by the EU program INTERREG-Alcotra, which is aimed at improving the environmental sustainability of ski resorts and agricultural activities.
He has over 10 years of experience in groundwater consultancy projects concerning large infrastructures, contaminated sites, and landfills. Between 2008 and 2014 he took part to the environmental monitoring programme of the Mo.S.E. system for the protection of Venice from tidal flooding and he is currently working at a groundwater protection plan of an excavated rocks landfill for the high-speed railway Genoa-Milan.
He has been teaching both theory and exercises in several courses of environmental sanitary engineering, groundwater engineering, contaminant transport, and shallow geothermal energy and he has been the supervisor of about 20 BSc and MSc theses in Environmental, Energy and Civil Engineering.
He spends his spare time cycling, running and cross-country skiing. He volunteers in the digital inclusion project Tutticonnessi, refurbishing second-hand PCs to be donated to students.
