BAROLO MASSIMILIANO

Dr. Massimiliano (Max) Barolo is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Padova. After graduating with honors in Chemical Engineering, he worked as a process engineer in the largest petrochemical site in Italy. He earned the Ph.D. degree in Chemical Engineering in 1994. In the same year, he worked as a research assistant at the Italian National Research Council (CNR). He has been a visiting student (1993) and a visiting academic (1995) at the Centre for Process Systems Engineering of Imperial College (London, U.K.), and a visiting Professor (2005; 2009) at the Department of Chemical Engineering of the University of California (Santa Barbara, CA). He is the author or co-author of 150+ peer-reviewed papers and of some teaching monographs.
At University of Padova, he serves as a member of the of the “Presidium for Quality in Teaching” Committee. He served as the President of the School of Engineering, and as the Chair of the Master degree program in Chemical and process engineering.
He serves as the National delegate in the Working Party on “Quality by design” of the European Federation of Chemical Engineering, and as a member of the Board of Directors of AIDIC (the Italian Association of Chemical Engineering).

RESEARCH
Max is the co-chair of the CAPE-Lab research group (https://research.dii.unipd.it/capelab/). His research activities are in the process systems engineering area, particularly in the following fields:
• process chemometrics; data analytics
• “quality-by-design” for the pharmaceutical industry
• process monitoring; statistical process control
• process dynamics and control
• dynamics and control of physiological systems
• development of anti-fraud and anti-adulteration systems for the food sector
• optimal model-based design of experiments