Who we are

Mariolina Longo is Associate Professor of Management at the Department of Management of the University of Bologna. Her research focuses on Performance measurement system, Sustainability measurement and management and Sustainability Transition. She coordinates research projects funded by the European Commission and important Italian companies.

Matteo Mura, PhD, is Associate Professor in Management Engineering at the Department of Management of the University of Bologna, Visiting Fellow at the Center for Business Performance of the Cranfield School of Management and Teaching Associate at the Warwick Business School. He is the Director of the Centre for Sustainability and Climate Change of the Bologna Business School.

His research focuses industrial sustainability transition and sustainability performance measurement systems. He collaborates with research centers in the UK, Switzerland and Brazil, and coordinates research projects funded by the European Commission and important Italian companies.

Research Fellow at the Department of Management (DiSA). Leticia has a bachelor in Environmental Engineering (Universidade de Passo Fundo, Brazil), a masters’ in Production Engineering (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) and a PhD in Environmental Planning (Griffith University, Australia).

Her research interest lies in how societies and economic activities can transition towards more sustainable and resilient states in a climate change context. Currently, she is focusing on the manufacturing industries’ low-carbon transition, seeking to understand the decarbonization and climate adaptation strategies adopted by companies and their relationship with broader socio-technical and environmental systems.

Previously, Leticia has researched food systems and the role that local food initiatives and urban food strategies can play in a sustainability transition and in increasing food systems’ capacity to cope with climate change effects.

Research and professional experience in the field of measuring sustainability in companies and industrial ecosystems, evaluating the life cycle of products and processes, environmental risk and decontamination of environmental matrices. Environmental engineer, she received her PhD in Civil, Chemical, Environmental and Materials Engineering from the Department of Civil, Chemical, Environmental and Materials Engineering (DICAM), University of Bologna in 2017. She was Climate Kic Pioneer in 2015. She is involved in several research projects at national and international level, such as EIT Climate KIC "Flagship Reindustrialise" and the "Sustainability Measurement and Management Laboratory (SuMM Lab)". She has published academic articles in international journals and has participated in numerous conferences. She holds Business Sustainability courses and seminars on sustainability measurement and Life Cycle Assessment at the University of Bologna and the BBS.

Chiara Vagnini is a Management Engineer and PhD student in Management at the Department of Management of the University of Bologna. She is also teaching assistant of Business Management T-AB in the BSc in Management Engineering at the Department of Industrial Engineering of the University of Bologna.

Her research activity focuses on the industrial transition towards sustainability and on the measurement of the sustainability performance of companies.

Nicolas is a Ph.D. student in Future Earth, Climate Change and Societal Challenges at the Department of Management. His background includes a B.Sc. in Business and Economics (CLaBE) at the University of Bologna, an M.Sc. in Economics and Development at the University of Florence, and a Global MBA in Green Energy and Sustainable Businesses at the Bologna Business School (BBS), as well as periods of study and work abroad in Sweden, Spain and Argentina. His main research interests surround sustainability and economic development.