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Full Professor Giorgio Locatelli

Full Professor Giorgio Locatelli

  • Position: Full Professor
  • Areas of expertise: Engineering Management, Project Management, megaprojects, project benchmarking, cost-benefit analysis, risk management, ethics, infrastructure end-of-life, project governance, Social Sustainability
  • Email: G.Locatelli@leeds.ac.uk
  • Phone: +44(0)113 343 2296
  • Location: 4.10 School of Civil Engineering
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Profile

Professor of Project Management. Educated in Politecnico di Milano has a Bachelor and Master in mechanical engineering (2006) and a PhD “Cum Laude” in Industrial engineering, economics, and management (2011). His research area is project management in large and complex infrastructure. Giorgio also works as a consultant and visiting academic for several institutions, including the IAEA and the UK government. He attracted about 1 million euro in research founds. He is the co-author of more than 100 international peer-reviewed publications. Giorgio sits in the editorial board of several journals including the three most prestigious project management journals: “Project Management Journal” (where is senior editor), the “International Journal of Project Management”,  “Construction Management and Economics”, "Progress in Nuclear Energy"

Research interests

o  Project Management in Large Complex infrastructure & Megaprojects. Focus on value creation and capturing, financing, risk management, ethics & sustainability, circular economy, sustainability, governance and modularisation

o  Energy transition to NetZero. Focus on economics, low carbon infrastructure, cogeneration, energy storage, nuclear power plants & Small Modular Reactors (SMR), decommissioning

o  Engineering Management. Focus on sanitation infrastructure and complex systems, real options analysis, techno-economic analysis of complex systems

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Qualifications

  • BEng in Mechanical Engineering (3 years programme)
  • MSc in Mechanical Engineering – Specialization in Industrial engineering (2 years programme)
  • Ph.D. in Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering
  • Postgraduate certificate in education (PGCE)

Professional memberships

  • Chartered Engineer (CEng)
  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)

Student education

·        Teaching “Project Management” to undergraduate, postgraduate and professionals

Research groups and institutes

  • Cities, Infrastructure and Energy

Current postgraduate researchers

<h4>Postgraduate research opportunities</h4> <p>We welcome enquiries from motivated and qualified applicants from all around the world who are interested in PhD study. Our <a href="https://phd.leeds.ac.uk">research opportunities</a> allow you to search for projects and scholarships.</p>