FACCHINI Angelo

PhD, Professor

Place of work: IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca (Lucca, Italy), Associate Professor

Main activities and responsibilities:
- Teaching and research in EU energy policy; sustainability, ecological economics, and governance;
- Design and coordination of interdisciplinary courses with a strong EU policy focus;
- Supervision of PhD research on energy poverty, energy justice, and territorial inequalities;
- Project management in the Horizon Framework;
- Dissemination activities;
- International exchange prorammes and TransNational Access.

Skills and expertise:
- Thermodynamics of complex urban systems;
- Comparative analysis of urban metabolism of megacities;
- The transformation of the city and its impact on energy consumption;
- Energy efficiency and energy use in informal settlements of developing countries;
- Energy efficiency of the built environment, with a focus on the città consolidata.

Academic merits:
- Italian Scientific Qualification as Full Professor ASN 2023-25, 13/A2 Politica Economica;
- Extensive experience as local Principal Investigator and scientific coordinator in European research projects funded under Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe frameworks;
- Long-standing involvement in the SoBigData research infrastructure (2016-present), including the H2020 SoBigData++ project and the ESFRI Roadmap SoBigData Research Infrastructure.

Links:
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2652-5238
Web of Science: https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/15714438
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Angelo-Facchini
Google Scholar ID: https://scholar.google.com.ua/citations?hl=uk&user=sdzj774AAAAJ

Some scientific publications:

1. Calò E., Facchini A. Multilayer network analysis of European regional flows. Entropy. 2025. Vol. 27(9). 978. DOI: 10.3390/e27090978
2. Guidi G., Mastrandrea R., Facchini A. et al. Author correction: Tracing two decades of carbon emissions using a network approach. Scientific Reports. 2024. Vol. 14. 8887. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-59779-w
3. Muscillo A., Re S., Gambacorta S., Ferrara G., Tagliafierro N., Borello E., Rubino A., Facchini A. An open data index to assess the green transition: A study on all Italian municipalities. Ecological Economics. 2023. Vol. 212. 107924. DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2023.107924
4. Saggese P., Belmonte A., Dimitri N., Facchini A., Böhme R. Arbitrageurs in the Bitcoin ecosystem: Evidence from user level trading patterns in the Mt. Gox exchange platform. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. 2023. Vol. 213. P. 251–270. DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2023.07.025
5. Gini A., Re S., Facchini A. A network simplification approach to ease topological studies about the food web architecture. Scientific Reports. 2022. Vol. 12. 1394. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-17508-1
6. Perricone V., Facchini A. et al. Hexagonal Voronoi pattern detected in the microstructural design of the echinoid skeleton. Journal of the Royal Society Interface. 2022. Vol. 19. 20220226. DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2022.0226
7. Pieroni V., Facchini A., Riccaboni M. COVID 19 vaccination and unemployment risk: Lessons from the Italian crisis. Scientific Reports. 2021. Vol. 11. 18538. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-97462-6
8. Pardo Martínez C. I., Alfonso Piña W., Facchini A. et al. Trends and dynamics of material and energy flows in an urban context: A case study of a city with an emerging economy. Energy, Sustainability and Society. 2021. Vol. 11. 24. DOI: 10.1186/s13705-021-00300-w
9. Korjani S., Facchini A., Mureddu M., Rubino A., Damiano A. Battery management for energy communities: Economic evaluation of an artificial intelligence led system. Journal of Cleaner Production. 2021. Vol. 314. 128017. DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.128017
10. Andrienko G., Andrienko N., Boldrini C., Facchini A. et al. (So) Big Data and the transformation of the city. International Journal of Data Science and Analytics. 2021. Vol. 11. P. 311–340. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-53984-8_11

E-mail: angelo.facchini@imtlucca.it