May 2023

Michele Mascia is a Chemical Engineer, PhD, Full Professor of Chemical Plant design from 2019, at the Department of Mechanical Chemical and Materials Engineering of the University of Cagliari. His research activities focus on electrochemical engineering and applied electrochemistry. The main processes studied are the electrolysis of water (conventional, bio-assisted and photo-assisted), conventional and microbial fuel cells. The main applications are energy harvesting and conversion, water and wastewater treatment, and remediation of polluted soils. Fundamental and applied studies cover design, characterisation and modelling of reactors, simulation of plants, electrocatalysis and reaction mechanisms.

Michele Mascia has been a member of UniCa's governing bodies: Senato Accademico (Academic Senate), from 2016 to 2021; Comitato Unico di Garanzia (gender equality and anti-discrimination committee from 2018); Statute revision commission (from 2010 to 2011).


Teaching:
- Unit operations, design and simulation of process equipment for the bachelor programme in Chemical Engineering
- Process integration, plant design and simulation and energy optimisation for the master programme in Chemical Engineering.

Main skills:
FEM Modelling of electrochemical systems
Process plant simulation and design
Planning and conduction of experiments
Analysis of experimental data
Project management
Teamwork and leadership
Communication abilities

Ongoing projects
From – 2020 RAS LR7; FeDe Progetto di ricerca & sviluppo per innovazione di prodotto nei settori dei fertilizzanti e dei disinquinanti ecologici; 1000 k€; Principal investigator
From - 2019 H2020-NMBP-BIO-CN-2018 GREENER InteGRated systems for Effective ENvironmEntal Remediation; 5511 k€, (200 k€ UniCa); local coordinator.
PNRR projects (as participant, task or subtask coordinator):
Infrastruttura tecnologica di Innovazione (IRSME)
Partenariato esteso Scenari energetici del futuro (NEST)
PROMETH2eus

Michele Mascia has authored more than 100 papers in peer reviewed journals, about 30 articles in conference proceedings and book chapters.He has presented more than 50 communications at national and international conferences as a speaker. At the deadline date of the project, the main bibliometric indicators are the following (source Scopus):

Number of publications 109
Number of citations 3206
H index 28