Alessandro Avenali

Alessandro Avenali is Full Professor of Economic-Management Engineering (ING-IND/35) at Sapienza University of Rome, member of the Antonio Ruberti Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering, and serves on both the Management-Engineering and Information-Engineering area councils. Since 2002 he has taught Economics & Business Organisation in the B.Sc. in Management Engineering and since 2011 Procurement Management in the corresponding M.Sc. programme.

Education & career:

• 1998 – Professional engineering qualification
• 2002 – Ph.D. in Operations Research, Sapienza University of Rome
• 2002-2006 – Research fellow, “Economics & Management of Network Services”
• 2006-2011 – Assistant (researcher) professor
• 2011-2022 – Associate professor
• 2022-present – Full professor

Research interests lie at the intersection of industrial economics, operations research and mechanism design, with a long focus on the techno-economic analysis and regulation of network industries—especially telecommunications and transport. Specific themes include bottleneck access pricing, dynamic access-regulation models, infrastructure-investment incentives, asymmetric regulation, vertical relationships, bundling, auction design for scarce network resources, top-down/bottom-up cost models and the efficient allocation of public funds in network services.

His recent publications (2023-24) revolve around sustainable public transport: decarbonisation strategies for bus fleets under macro-economic and technological uncertainty, cost-prediction of local bus services via machine-learning, adoption drivers for zero-emission buses, and cost-effectiveness assessments of alternative bus technologies. Complementary work addresses higher-education policy, efficiency of universities under resource constraints, and interdisciplinary legal-economic views on dematerialised business branches.

Scientific awards & memberships: While no specific prizes are listed, Prof. Avenali is an active member of several international academic associations: EARIE, EEA, WCTRS, ITEA, AiIG, SIEP, SIET and SIPOTRA.

Research funding & supervision: He has been scientific director of projects commissioned by the Italian Ministry of Infrastructure, Lazio & Puglia Regions, the National Association of Passenger Road Hauliers, Vodafone Italia and Fastweb SpA, among others. Since 2002 he has advised numerous B.Sc. and M.Sc. theses on business economics, industrial-systems economics and procurement.

Labs & teams: No dedicated laboratory is mentioned; his activities are embedded within the DIAG department and interdisciplinary master programmes detailed above.