Riccardo De Gennaro
Sustainability Consultant at Plastic Footprint Network
Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland
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Top SchoolRiccardo De Gennaro is a sustainability consultant and physicist with a PhD from EPFL and nine years of experience translating advanced computational materials science into practical tools and strategies. He has a strong track record in scientific software development—authoring and maintaining the koopmans code—and in supervising research projects and teams. Now applying his analytical rigor to industry, he assesses environmental footprints, builds platforms like PLASTEAX for plastic waste metrics, and leads cross-sector working groups to standardize plastic footprint methodologies. Comfortable bridging research, software, and stakeholder engagement, he brings both hands-on modelling experience and program-level thinking to sustainability challenges. Based in Lausanne, he is uniquely positioned to combine first-principles thinking with product-minded delivery to help organizations reduce environmental impact.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Materials Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Materials Science at École polytechnique fédérale de LausanneMaster of Science - MS, Physics (curriculum: Structure of Matter), 110/110 cum laude, Master of Science - MS, Physics (curriculum: Structure of Matter), 110/110 cum laude at University of Rome Tor Vergata
Italian, English, French
Github Skills (32)
editor9
microsoft9
electron9
espresso9
visual-studio-code9
vscode-extension9
typescript9
visual-studio9
vscode9
quantum-computing8
language-server8
coq8
numerical7
pylance7
gitlab6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ricc91/hello-world
Feb 2017 - Mar 2020
Contributions:4 PRs, 9 pushes, 6 branches in 3 years
degennar/registration_YRM
Jul 2021 - May 2022
Form to pay the registration fee to the 17th ETSF YRM
Contributions:3 PRs, 9 pushes, 3 branches in 10 months
paydjangoregistrationfeeyrm
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