Giovanni DE FEO | Curriculum

Associate Professor of Environmental Engineering (ICAR/03), teaching Industrial Ecology at the Master Degree Programs in Chemical Engineering and Management Engineering within the Department of Industrial Engineering (DIIn) at the University of Salerno.

Licensed as a first-tier professor in the ICAR/03 sector.

Member of the Teaching Board of the PhD program in Innovative Engineering Technologies for Industrial Sustainability - IETIS at the University of Salerno.

Graduated with honours in Civil Engineering from the University of Salerno, holds a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering for the Environment and Territory, and previously served as a research fellow specializing in the environmental impact of sanitary engineering projects.

Conducted educational activities for courses such as Pollution Phenomena and Environmental Quality Control, Environmental Management Systems, Environmental Assessment Procedures, Environmental Impact Assessment, Elements of Environmental Impact, Wastewater Treatment Plants, Solid Waste Disposal and Treatment, Impact of Civil Engineering Works, Remediation of Contaminated Sites, Public Service Management, Environmental Health Engineering, Impact of Sanitary Engineering Works, and Legal Disciplines of Technical-Engineering Activities.

Acted as a supervisor, co-supervisor, and tutor for approximately 500 theses.

Since June 2017, responsible for the "Waste" thematic group in the University of Salerno's "Sustainability" working group. Represented the University of Salerno in the "Resources and Waste" working group of RUS - Network of Universities for Sustainable Development since November 2017, and from November 2021, also in the "Climate Change" working group.

Engages in research activities at DIIn, focusing on the following main topics: Life Cycle Assessment (LCA); management, treatment, and disposal of solid waste; management, treatment, and disposal of wastewater. Serves as Editor for the journal "Water, Science and Technology: Water Supply" and has been an editor for "Water, Science and Technology." A member of the Editorial Board for journals such as Sustainability, Recycling, Standards, Energy and Environment Research, Environment and Pollution, International Journal of Environmental Protection, Academica Science Journal - Economica Series, and Environmental Engineering (IDA).

Acts as a referee for approximately forty international journals. Part of the scientific committee of Ingenio. Presented as a speaker at numerous seminars, conferences, masterclasses, and training courses. Author and co-author of more than 200 technical-scientific publications and monographs.

Initiator and promoter of the environmental education project Greenopoli (www.greenopoli.it), involving over 600 schools and approximately eighty thousand students since December 2014.

Awarded at the Caselle Film Festival in 2017.

Received the Vesuvio Verde, Anfiteatro d'Argento, International Prata Award, Environmentalist of the Year - Luisa Minazzi Award in 2018. In May 2018, appointed Honorary Member of the Italian Association of Environmental Sciences - AISA.

Won the Pabulum and "Excellence for Young Campanians 2019" awards in 2019.

In 2021, the third mission project "Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and environmental dissemination with the Greenopoli method," conducted at DIIn, received the "Sustainable and Resilient PA 2021 Award" in the FORMARE section on sustainability topics.

In 2022, the Greenopoli project was featured as an "excellent example of an educational model" in the international book "Social and Environmental Issues to Sustainability" written by university professors Rainer Stegman, Evangelos Gidarakos, Wenjing Lu, and Maria Avalioti for the Technical University of Crete Press (ISBN 978-618-5558-031).

In February 2022, the Greenopoli method was the subject of a Master's Thesis in Science in Journalistic Practice at the University of Rome Sapienza, within the Faculty of Mathematical, Physical, and Natural Sciences, titled "Le vocali della rivoluzione: il podcast di Greenopoli" (The vowels of the revolution: the Greenopoli podcast), written by Claudia Grimaldi.

On April 16, 2022, within an episode dedicated to Campania and Salerno, the Greenopoli method was featured on Rai1 in the program "Linea Verde Link," along with other research and dissemination initiatives from the University of Salerno.

In 2023, invited to conduct environmental education sessions in Spain and Bangladesh, and received the "Giovanni Bozzini Award - Best Italian paper award" at the international conference Sardinia Symposium.

In 2024, he received the Sustainability Awards 2024 for "commitment to sustainability education" from UCID and CONFASSOCIAZIONI Campania, and the award "We Are Nature – #Battipaglia 2024" for "the great ability to communicate and disseminate environmental knowledge using his Greenopoli method to all age groups, and for the passion and competence with which he conveys the need to achieve environmental sustainability goals through small daily actions." In the same year, he received recognition at the TERRAMIA film festival for "daily commitment to raising awareness on environmental issues.