Fausto Arpino graduated with honors in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Cassino and Southern Lazio. In 2005 he obtained the title of Ph.D. (XVIII cycle) in Civil and Mechanical Engineering, with a thesis entitled "Numerical modeling of fuel cells". He is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, scientific disciplinary sector ING-IND/10 (Industrial Technical Physics), belonging to the Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering (DICeM), where he holds courses on "Thermofluid dynamics ” and “Advanced Numerical Heat and Mass Transfer”. He is president of the international Industrial Engineering Technology degree course and of the international Master's degree course in Mechanical Engineering. He was the scientific director of the Industrial Measurements Laboratory and is the contact person for the University of the R9 laboratory network "Monitoring and quality of the outdoor environment and indoor, sustainability and energy efficiency" within the Lazio Region DTC Center of Excellence. During his scientific activity, Fausto Arpino was mainly interested in research topics relating to heat transmission, numerical modeling of thermo-fluid dynamics problems, renewable sources, energy conversion systems, comfort, and air quality. He is a co-author of over 100 works published in national and international scientific journals and in the proceedings of national and international conferences and is Editor of the journal "Mathematical Problems in Engineering" (Hindawi). In 2011 he received the “Highly Commended Award” for the article "A novel single domain approach for numerical modeling solid oxide fuel cells", International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, Vol. 20 No. 5, 2010. In 2017 he received the teaching award for the Thermofluiddynamics course, Master's Degree in Mechanical Engineering, University of Cassino and Southern Lazio. In 2018 he received the “Roberto Sanguineti” award 2018 Italian Association of Air Conditioning, Heating and Refrigeration (AICARR, the judging commission reported the report “Experimental and numerical investigation of the effects of wind exposure on historical towns”, presented at Climamed 2017).
Prof Buonanno has a Ph.D. University of Cassino, Italy, March 1996, Mechanical Engineering (Major in Air humidity properties and measurements) and an M.Sc. University of Cassino, Italy, July 1992, Mechanical Engineering (Major in Applied Mechanics, highest class honors). Currently is a full professor with tenure at the University of Cassino and Southern Lazio.
His research interests and expertise are:
Heat and mass transfer in porous media, analysis of the most relevant techniques to measure thermal and fluid dynamics properties, environmental measurements (in particular airborne particle measurements at the emission of industrial plants, in urban areas, in indoor environments), air quality, airborne transmission of viruses. He is the author of more than 200 papers in peer-reviewed journals and international conferences.
Prof Buonanno is recognized as an international expert on airborne particulate matter in the broad context of atmospheric pollution and its sources as well as its impact on human health and the environment. His research interest and contribution fall into four main areas that are of direct relevance to the proposal: (i) Aerosol metrology; (ii) Characterization of urban atmospheric pollution; (iii) Particle emissions from industrial plants and commercial devices and (iv) Indoor Air Quality.