Keynote speeches
Dimitrios Kouretas
Governon of the Region of Thessaly, Grecce
Dimitrios Kouretas is the Governor of the Region of Thessaly, Professor of Physiology of Zoological Organisms and Toxicology and Director of the laboratory of the same name, at the Department of Biochemistry-Biotechnology of the University of Thessaly. He studied Pharmacy in Patras and then received his PhD in Biochemistry from the Department of Chemistry of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. From 1990-1992 he worked as a researcher at Harvard Medical School in Boston. His research work is in the field of studying the mechanisms of interaction of nutritional elements with the organism at the molecular level, especially in cases of exercise. He has published more than 230 articles in international peer-reviewed journals. He was an expert at the EU in the ‘Food for life’ technology platform for the period 2007-2013 and 2014-2020. His work in food innovation has been awarded in Greece and the EU. In 2013-2014 he was Deputy Rector at the University of Thessaloniki and since 2018 member of the Commission’s expert committee on chemical and food crises. Since January 2019 he is a member of the World Academy of Sciences.
Adriano Alessandrini
Professor at the University of Florance, Italy
“TUSS – The Ultimate Sharing Service and its disruptive potentials for urban transport.
Result of Sesto Fiorentino demonstration.”
Mechanical Engineer (MSc in 1998) and PhD in Energy Technologies (2003 – both awarder by the University of Rome La Sapienza) Adriano is associate professor of Transport at the Civil Engineering Department of the University of Florence (DICEA – since 2015) of Transport Technologies and Economics and Innovative Transportation Systems.
Since 2000 (EC project CyberCars) he researches on vehicle automation technologies. He participated with growing responsibilities in a stream of international research projects on road vehicle automation CyberMove, EDICT, NetMobil, CityMobil, CityNetMobil, CATS, VRA, CARTRE, Co-Exist and coordinated the largest of them to date CityMobil2 which deployed the first fleets or automated shuttles in seven European cities carrying almost a hundred thousand passengers overall.
For his vision of a new society generated by automated transport he was shortlisted twice 2014 and 2016 for the EU Champion of Transport Research prize.
His main research interests are the environmental impact of vehicles (and drivers) and automated transport systems.
He published two books on road vehicle automation; one (on the CityMobil2 outcomes) in 2018 Implementing Automated Road Transport Systems in Urban Settings and the second The Role of Infrastructure for a Safe Transition to Automated Driving (with Lorenzo Domenichini and Valentina Branzi 1st Edition – August 10, 2021) with the scientific publisher Elsevier.
In 2019 he led his research team at UNIFI to deposit a patent on technologies to create convoys of automated vehicles.
Since 2022 he leads the participation of an interdepartmental team of UNIFI to the national centre on sustainable mobility (MOST) and since 2023 he is the scientific director of the joint laboratory of UNIFI and the Italian State Railways MORE – Mobility hOlistic Research
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