My research interests revolve around water quality, management, and availability, and around the water-energy nexus. Specifically, my expertise is in: (i) membrane process engineering and advanced oxidation for water treatment, desalination, and wastewater reuse, (ii) extraction of resources from aqueous waste and high-salinity streams. I am currently coordinating a European-wide project titled MEloDIZER aimed at improving water reuse strategies in the industrial sector and increasing access to safe water through low-cost desalination approaches driven by renewable energy.
Associate Professor of Environmental Engineering, Politecnico di Torino (Italy), 2015-present
Coordinator of the interdepartmental Clean Water Center at Politecnico di Torino, 2017-2023
Post-doctoral researcher, Mari-Sklodowska Curie fellow, University of Geneva (Switzerland), 2013-2015
Yale University, Ph.D. in Chemical and Environmental Engineering, 2012
Yale University, M.Sc. in Chemical and Environmental Engineering, 2010
Politecnico di Torino, M.Sc. in Environmental Engineering, 2007
Selected recent publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals
Giagnorio, M.*; Morciano, M.*; Zhang, W.; Hélix-Nielsen, C.; Fasano, M.; Tiraferri, A. (2022) “Coupling of forward osmosis with desalination technologies: System-scale analysis at the water-energy nexus”, Desalination, 543, 116083, 10.1016/j.desal.2022.116083, Open Access
Ricceri, F.; Malaguti, M.; Derossi, C.; Zanetti, M.; Riggio, V.; Tiraferri, A.* (2022) “Microalgae Biomass Concentration and Reuse of Water as New Cultivation Medium using Ceramic Membrane Filtration”, Chemosphere, 307 (Part 1), 135724, 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2022.135724
Farinelli, G.*; Coha, M..; Vione, D.; Minella, M.; Tiraferri, A.* (2022) “Formation of Halogenated By-products upon Water Treatment with Peracetic Acid”, Environmental Science & Technology, 56 (8), 5123-5131, 10.1021/acs.est.1c06118, Open Access
Farinelli, G.; Coha, M.; Minella, M.; Fabbri, D.; Pazzi, M.; Vione, D.; Tiraferri, A.* (2021) “Evaluation of Fenton and modified Fenton oxidation coupled with membrane distillation for produced water treatment: Benefits, challenges, and effluent toxicity”, Science of the Total Environment, 796, 148953, 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.148953
Di Vincenzo, M.; Tiraferri, A.; Musteata, V.-E.; Chisca, S.; Sougrat, R.; Huang, L.-B.; Nunes, S. P.; Barboiu, M.* (2021) “Biomimetic artificial water channels membranes for enhanced desalination”, Nature Nanotechnology, 16, 190-196, 10.1038/s41565-020-00796-x
Coha, M.; Farinelli, G.; Tiraferri, A.*; Minella, M.*; Vione, D. (2021) “Advanced oxidation processes in the removal of organic substances from produced water: Potential, configurations, and research needs”, Chemical Engineering Journal, 414, 128668, 10.1016/j.cej.2021.128668
Farinelli, G.; Giagnorio, M.; Ricceri, F.; Giannakis, S.*; Tiraferri, A.* (2021) “Evaluation of the Effectiveness, Safety, and Feasibility of 9 Potential Biocides to Disinfect Acidic Landfill Leachate from Algae and Bacteria”, Water Research, 191, 116801, 10.1016/j.watres.2020.116801
