Prof. Enrico Zio from the Department of Energy at the Politecnico di Milano receives the 2025 Ayyub–Wiechel Risk Analysis Award for his research on reliability and resilience.
GraphiCore, a startup from the Department of Energy at the Politecnico di Milano, awarded for its innovative solutions in nuclear decommissioning and sustainability.
From 5 to 21 November 2025, the three on-campus weeks of the Blended Executive Programme (BEP) Strategic Energy Planning and Industrial Ecology for Local Sustainable and Just Development in an Era of Geopolitical Uncertainties were held at the EN:lab of the Politecnico di Milano. The training programme, which began online in October 2025 and will conclude in February 2026, is is a TNE (transnational education initiative) and it is part of the SHARE_Africa initiative, launched by the IHEA Foundation (Italian Higher Education with Africa) and supported by the Italian Ministry of University and Research (MUR) through the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR). It is funded by the European Union-Next Generation EU.
Prof. Enrico Zio, faculty member of the Department of Energy at Politecnico di Milano and professor at the Centre de recherche sur les Risques et les Crises (CRC) of Mines Paris, has been included among Clarivate Analytics’ Highly Cited Researchers 2025, the select group representing the top 1% of the most cited researchers worldwide.
The Department of Energy of the Politecnico di Milano hosted the UNESCO World Science Day for Peace and Development 2024 event, an international forum focused on the role of science in fostering trust, dialogue, and sustainable development.
Professor Enrico Zio, faculty member of the Department of Energy at Politecnico di Milano and member of the Laboratory of Systems Analysis for Reliability, Risk and Resilience Assessment, has recently completed a period of academic activity in China, where he received important recognitions and shared the results of his research with the international scientific community.
The final presentation of Spoke 13 “Electric Traction System and Batteries” of the National Center for Sustainable Mobility (MOST), led by the Politecnico di Milano, was held on Wednesday, October 8, 2025, in the EN:lab Council Room of the Department of Energy at the Politecnico di Milano.
The project, funded through the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR), involved nine universities and seven companies operating in the fields of electric traction and energy storage, with the goal of developing innovative technologies and solutions for more sustainable and interconnected mobility.
Professor Emanuele Ogliari from the Politecnico di Milano delivered a keynote at ATiGB 2025 in Vietnam on solar radiation nowcasting.
Experimental tests on the prototype of a vertical-axis wind turbine installed on a robot simulating the motion of a floating offshore platform restarted at the Politecnico di Milano wind tunnel. The activity is part of the PNRR project NEST – Network for Energy Sustainable Transition (funded by the EU– NEXTGenerationEU) and specifically as part of Spoke 2 “Energy harvesting & Offshore renewable”.
On October 31, at the Mapei Auditorium in Milan, Matteo Maestri, professor in the Department of Energy at the Politecnico di Milano, received the “Giorgio Squinzi” Medal awarded by the Italian Chemical Society (SCI) – Division of Industrial Chemistry, in memory of entrepreneur Giorgio Squinzi, who passed away in 2019.