Mario Grosso graduated in Environmental Engineering at Politecnico di Milano, where he also earned a PhD in Sanitary Engineering.
He is Professor at the DICA Department of Politecnico di Milano, where he coordinates the AWARE (Assessment on WAste and REsources) research group. Research activities include waste management and treatment, Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and climate change mitigation. Research is funded by both public and private sectors, including some competitive funding.
He has co-authored more than 250 publications, 112 of which in ISI-rated journals (as of March 2026), and has attended a number of international conferences and symposia.
He regularly teaches “Solid waste management and treatment” and “Climate change mitigation” Master Courses at Politecnico di Milano. He has teached “Bio-energy and waste-to-energy technologies”, as well as “Principles of technologies for environmental protection” at L. Bocconi University.
He is president of the technical-scientific committee of the LEAP laboratory in Piacenza, as well as co-founder and member of the Scientific Board of the “MatER” Research Center, established within LEAP.
He is Associate Editor of “Waste Management & Research – The Journal for a Sustainable Circular Economy” since May 2015.
He was founder of AIAT (the Italian environmental engineers’ associations), where he coordinates the Scientific Committee. He is vice-president of ENEP, the European Network of Environmental Professionals, after having served as the General Secretary. He is member of the Scientific Committee of “Climalteranti” (www.climalteranti.it), a scientific blog dealing with the climate change debate.
