Maria Cristina Lavagnolo

Assistant Professor at the University of Padova since July 2002.
She teaches ‘Environmental Sanitary Engineering’and ‘Waste Management in Developing Countries’modules.
In the last few years she has been mainly involved in a project regarding the decentralization of urban wastewater treatment plants and integrated solid-liquid management: wastewater reuse; phytodepuration of grey water and urine; anaerobic digestion of the solid waste organic fraction and brown water; phytodepuration by energy crops.
Specifically involved in several solid waste and water management projects in Africa, she is the director of a Master on ‘Integrated management of water resources and environmental sanitation’sponsored by the European Community.