Alberto Traverso is Full Professor of Energy Systems at University of Genoa, Italy. He started his academic career as an Assistant Professor in 2005 at the Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre in Genoa. Alberto is currently a member of the Energy Turbomachinery Network Board since 2024, member of the International Advisory Committee (IAC) for Gas Turbine Society of Japan (GTSJ) since 2013. He has been serving the ASME Turbo Expò Technical Committees and Organizing Committee since more than two decades.