Dr Luca Cioccolanti got his PhD in Energetics in 2014 at Università Politecnica delle Marche. He was Assistant Professor of “Energy systems” at Ecampus University in the period 2015-2020. Since May 2020 he is Associate Professor in the same scientific sector. He participated in setting up and development of structures and syllabuses for a number of modules on energy topics in overseas Universities being involved in several CBHE Erasmus+ projects. His research activity is mainly focus on modelling distributed energy systems using renewable energy sources and waste heat recovery. In this field is currently involved in two research projects.