Angela Daniela La Rosa

About

Italian, M.Sc. in Chemistry (1994), Ph.D (2001), a chemist with a strong focus on polymer composites and environmental impact including Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)/Life Cycle Costing (LCC). From 2001 she holds a PhD in Chemistry of Polymer Composites, carried out in the Wilton International Research Centre (UK), within the Strategic Technology Group of ICI (Imperial Chemical Industries), for about three years. Prof. La Rosa has started her education on LCA and LCC in 2006 in the Division of Environmental Systems, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, and by attending an advanced course in Life Cycle Assessment at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) Stockholm, Sweden. Since then, she has published several articles on LCA of polymers and polymer composites. Prof. La Rosa has long experience from national and European research and innovation projects, being the scientific director of S.C. All Green S.R.L. spin-off (Romania) since 2016. She is author of over 60 articles in journals and conference proceedings (H-index: 20, google scholar 2023). One of her recent articles won the Award NAMRC51 Outstanding Paper in Manufacturing Systems and another paper was published in a Nature-branded journal.

Her research focuses on Sustainable manufacturing and Bio-based composites aiming to fulfil SDGs goals by acting along the entire value chain, starting with next generation feedstocks, and ending with fully recyclable products contributing to increasing the availability of renewable carbon-based complex structures, their circularity and addressing zero pollution goal. The LCA is applied for materials selection and energy consumption to obtain more environmentally friendly products while the LCC calculates the economic feasibility of the investigated products, according to a rigorous methodological framework described by ISO 14040 (2006) and by ISO 14044:2018 (2018) standards.

Ongoing projects

2022-2025. OVERLEAF. https://overleaf-project.eu/ (role:contributor for the LCA/LCC/S-LCA part)

2022-2026. THERMOBAT. https://www.thermobat.eu/ (role:contributor for the LCA/LCC)

2023-2026. H2ELIOS. https://h2elios.eu/ (role:contributor for the LCA/LCC/S-LCA part)

2023-2027. 1,2 TRE-STEG: Steps towards circularity in wood-based building. https://prosjektbanken.forskningsradet.no/project/FORISS/336488 (LCA work package leader)

Ongoing PhD candidates supervision

Main supervisor

1. Orsa Boura

Title: Development of deactivated materials and nanoporous filters for masks, ventilation and high traffic surfaces, to takle zoonotic diseases. (Period: 15.09.22 – 14.09.25)

2. Andrea Pettersen Helåsen

Winner of the PhD position: LCA of Aerospace Composite Materials, in September 2023. The PhD is funded by the EU project H2ELIOS

Co-supervisor

1. Dongming Guo (2020-2023)

2. Subrata Chandra Das (2019-2023)

3. Arman Montazerian (2022-2024)

4. Mohammad Abedi (2022-2024)

Project management experience

2016-2020

Scientific Director of the project: “Research and Development of Innovative Nano-structured Composite Materials, Activated in the Radio Frequency and Microwave Field for Reverse Assembly Technologies with Intersectorial Applications”. (NANO-REV-EM-ASAM). Competitiveness Operational Programme (POC) 2014-2020, Priority axis 1- Research, Technological Development and Innovation (RD&I) to support economic competitiveness and business development, Action 1.1.4: Attracting foreign staff with advanced skills to build capacity for R&D. Technical University of Iasi, Romania (4 years, 1,8M€).

2020-2021

Team Leader (as affiliated) of the project partner All Green srl (Romania) Project ID: MNET18/ADMA3454, 4DPrintEN 4D printed energy harvesting devices based on innovative printable conductive elastomers https://infim.ro/en/project/4d-printed-energy-harvesting-devices-based-on-innovative-printable-conductive-elastomers/

Other relevant professional experience

2024-2028 Secondary proposer of the Cost Action n.CA23157 - European Network for Multiple View Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (MultiViewLCSA)

2021-2024 Member of the extended management team (Utvidet ledergroup) of the Department IVB.

2024 Invited Keynote speaker for the International Conference on Sustainable Materials for Engineering Applications (ICSMEA 2024), 1-3 February 2024 Madras, India

2024 Invited Keynote speaker for the 13th IEEE International Conference and Exposition on Electrical and Power Engineering (EPEi 2024), Iaşi, Romania, on October 17-19, 2024-

2023-2024 Selected as PhD opponent by the PhD Faculty Board of Politecnico di Milano (Italy) for the PhD candidate Roberto Rocca.

2023 Member of the Grading Committe of the PhD candidate Frida Hermansson at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden.

2023 Member of Academic Board of the PhD Course in Mechanical, Manufacturing, Management and Aerospace Innovation at the Department of Engineering, University of Palermo, XXXIX Cycle.

2023 Invited Chair of the special session on LCA of composite materials within the conference ICCM23, Belfast July 2023 https://iccm23.org/

2023 Award NAMRC51 Outstanding Paper in Manufacturing Systems

https://www.sme.org/aboutsme/awards/namrisme-outstanding-paper-award/

Life Cycle Assessment of aluminum alloys chips recycling through single and multi-step Friction Stir Consolidation processes. Journal of manufacturing systems.

2021 Signing a Memorandum of Understanding with the Plastics Recycling Centre of Excellence (PRCOE, Singapore).

2021 Invited visiting Professor at the University of Catania, Department of Economy, November-December 2021.

2020 Invited lecturer on “Sustainability and Circular Economy”. University of Catania, Italy, Faculty of Drug Science, Laboratory of Photochemistry, (27-31)/01/2020.

2019 Invited visiting Professor for lectures on "Sustainability and Circular Economy" during the International Week for PhD Students and Researchers Technical University of Iasi, Romania, 30/10/2019.

Editing activities

2024 Guest Editor of the Special Issue: Application of Green Manufacturing in Environmentally Friendly Polymers and Composites Recycling Process Green Manufacturing Open - OAE Publishing Inc.

From 2019 Associate Editor of Materials Circular Economy https://www.springer.com/journal/42824

2022 Co-Chief Editor of Enciclopedia of Green Materials, (Springer)

From 2022 Editorial Board of Journal of Resource Recovery https://www.resrecov.com/

from 2022 EPD developer

ENVIRONMENTAL PRODUCT DECLARATION Of steel structure for Tangenvika Bridge https://api.environdec.com/api/v1/EPDLibrary/Files/99b4f0d6-a939-4a8b-ef32-08db5cc782d3/Data

Publications

2024

Das, Subrata Chandra; La Rosa, Angela Daniela; Goutianos, Stergios; Grammatikos, Sotirios. (2024) Glass fibre hybridization to improve the durability of circular flax fibre reinforced composites with off-the-shelf recyclable polymer matrix systems for large scale structural applications. Composites Part C: Open Access
Academic article
La Rosa, Angela Daniela. (2024) A combined finite element – Life cycle assessment approach for assessing the sustainability of the thermoforming process of a thermoplastic composite component. Materials Research Proceedings (MRP)
Academic article
La Rosa, Angela Daniela. (2024) LCA and LCC Analysis of the Recovering and Reusing Scenario of Metal-Plastic Process Scraps. Materials Circular Economy
Academic article

2023

La Rosa, Angela Daniela. (2023) Grand Challenges in Resource Recovery from Polymer Composites. Journal of Resource Recovery
Academic article
Ingarao, Giuseppe; Amato, Massimiliano; Latif, Abdul; La Rosa, Angela Daniela; Di Lorenzo, Rosa; Fratini, Livan. (2023) Life Cycle Assessment of aluminum alloys chips recycling through single and multi-step Friction Stir Consolidation processes. Journal of manufacturing systems
Academic article
Das, Subrata Chandra; Srivastava, Chaman; Goutianos, Stergios; La Rosa, Angela Daniela; Grammatikos, Sotirios. (2023) On the Response to Hygrothermal Ageing of Fully Recyclable Flax and Glass Fibre Reinforced Polymer Composites. Materials
Academic article
Das, Subrata Chandra; La Rosa, Angela Daniela; Goutianos, Stergios; Grammatikos, Sotirios. (2023) Effect of accelerated weathering on the performance of natural fibre reinforced recyclable polymer composites and comparison with conventional composites. Composites Part C: Open Access
Academic article
Borda, Francesco; La Rosa, Angela Daniela; Filice, Luigino; Gagliardi, Francesco. (2023) Environmental impact of process constrained topology optimization design on automotive component’ life. International Journal of Material Forming
Academic article
Zhang, Zhenggui; Huang, Jing; Yao, Yuan; Peters, Gregory; Macdonald, Ben; La Rosa, Angela Daniela. (2023) Environmental impacts of cotton and opportunities for improvement. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
Academic literature review

2022

La Rosa, Angela Daniela; Mavroudi, Anna. (2022) A case study of hybrid learning in higher education using quantitative research design.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
La Rosa, Angela Daniela; Goutianos, Stergios. (2022) Benefits and Opportunities of Reusing Waste Rotor Blades Materials from a Life Cycle Perspective. Key Engineering Materials
Academic article
Das, Subrata Chandra; La Rosa, Angela Daniela; Grammatikos, Sotirios. (2022) Life cycle assessment of plant fibers and their composites. Woodhead Publishing Limited
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Das, Subrata Chandra; La Rosa, Angela Daniela; Goutianos, Stergios; Grammatikos, Sotirios. (2022) Flax fibers, their composites and application. Woodhead Publishing Limited
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
La Rosa, Angela Daniela; Leistad, Vegard; Gavric, Zoran. (2022) LCA of Reusing Carbon Fibers Recycled Through Solvolysis Process of Thermoset Composites. Springer
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

2021

Guo, Dongming; Onstein, Erling; La Rosa, Angela Daniela. (2021) An Improved Approach for Effective Describing Geometric Data in ifcOWL through WKT High Order Expressions. SciTePress
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Gagliardi, Francesco; La Rosa, Angela Daniela; Filice, Luigino; Ambrogio, Giuseppina. (2021) Environmental impact of material selection in a car body component – The side door intrusion beam. Journal of Cleaner Production
Academic article
Guo, Dongming; Onstein, Erling; La Rosa, Angela Daniela. (2021) A Semantic Approach for Automated Rule Compliance Checking in Construction Industry. IEEE Access
Academic article
La Rosa, Angela Daniela; Greco, Sebastiano; Tosto, Claudio; Cicala, Gianluca. (2021) LCA and LCC of a chemical recycling process of waste CF-thermoset composites for the production of novel CF-thermoplastic composites. Open loop and closed loop scenarios. Journal of Cleaner Production
Academic article
Ramadan, Noha; Taha, Mohamed; La Rosa, Angela Daniela; Elsabbagh, Ahmed. (2021) Towards Selection Charts for Epoxy Resin, Unsaturated Polyester Resin and Their Fibre-Fabric Composites with Flame Retardants. Materials
Academic article
La Rosa, Angela Daniela; Grammatikos, Sotirios; Ursan, George Andrei; Aradoaei, Sebastian; Summerscales, John; Ciobanu, Romeo Cristian. (2021) Recovery of electronic wastes as fillers for electromagnetic shielding in building components: An LCA study. Journal of Cleaner Production
Academic article
La Rosa, Angela Daniela; Ramakrishna, Seeram. (2021) Industrial Symbiosis for Circular Economy: A Possible Scenario in Norway. In: An Introduction to Circular Economy. Springer Springer
Textbook

2020

Grammatikos, Sotirios; Dahl, Morten Melby; Brøndbo, Vegar Salin; La Rosa, Angela Daniela. (2020) On the use of carbon nanotubes to develop durable structural electrodes for self-sensing applications. Key Engineering Materials
Academic article
La Rosa, Angela Daniela; Grammatikos, Sotirios; Ciobanu, Romeo C.; Schreiner, Cristina M.. (2020) Electromagnetic shielding for buildings using hybrid polymer composites: a life cycle assessment study. . Key Engineering Materials
Academic article
Guo, Dongming; Onstein, Erling; La Rosa, Angela Daniela. (2020) An Approach of Automatic SPARQL Generation for BIM Data Extraction. Applied Sciences
Academic article

Part of book/report

La Rosa, Angela Daniela; Mavroudi, Anna. (2022) A case study of hybrid learning in higher education using quantitative research design.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Das, Subrata Chandra; La Rosa, Angela Daniela; Grammatikos, Sotirios. (2022) Life cycle assessment of plant fibers and their composites. Woodhead Publishing Limited
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Das, Subrata Chandra; La Rosa, Angela Daniela; Goutianos, Stergios; Grammatikos, Sotirios. (2022) Flax fibers, their composites and application. Woodhead Publishing Limited
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
La Rosa, Angela Daniela; Leistad, Vegard; Gavric, Zoran. (2022) LCA of Reusing Carbon Fibers Recycled Through Solvolysis Process of Thermoset Composites. Springer
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Guo, Dongming; Onstein, Erling; La Rosa, Angela Daniela. (2021) An Improved Approach for Effective Describing Geometric Data in ifcOWL through WKT High Order Expressions. SciTePress
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
La Rosa, Angela Daniela. (2018) A Life Cycle Evaluation of the Environmental Effects of a Hydrometallurgical Process for Alkaline Battery Waste Treatment. CRC Press
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

Teaching

Courses

Knowledge Transfer

2022

Popular scientific lecture

La Rosa, Angela Daniela. (2022) Analisi LCA di un processo di estrusione per il riciclo di imballaggi in plastica. XVI Convegno dell'Associazione Rete Italiana di LCA 2022-06-22 - 2022-06-24
Academic lecture

Das, Subrata Chandra; La Rosa, Angela Daniela; Goutianos, Stergios; Grammatikos, Sotirios. (2022) Effect of weathering on the long-term performance of natural fiber reinforced recyclable polymer composites for structural applications. 20th European Conference on Composite Materials (ECCM20) , Lausanne 2022-06-26 - 2022-06-30

2021

Academic lecture

Guo, Dongming; Onstein, Erling; La Rosa, Angela Daniela. (2021) An Improved Approach for Effective Describing Geometric Data in ifcOWL through WKT High Order Expressions. The International Conference on Geographical Information Systems Theory, Applications and Management 2021-04-23 - 2021-04-25
Academic lecture

Das, Subrata Chandra; La Rosa, Angela Daniela; Goutianos, Stergios; Grammatikos, Sotirios. (2021) Natural fiber reinforced polymer composites for small/medium wind turbine blades: a LCA study. University of Minho 5th International Conference on Natural Fibers (ICNF2021) , Online 2021-05-17 - 2021-05-19

2020

Lecture

La Rosa, Angela Daniela. (2020) Lecture on Sustainability and Circular Economy. . University of Catania Lecture for the Faculty of Drug Science, Laboratory of Photochemistry , Catania 2020-01-27 - 2020-01-31

2019

Academic lecture

La Rosa, Angela Daniela. (2019) Invited lecturing on "Sustainability and Circular Economy". Techical University of Iasi - TUIASI International Week for PhD Students and Researchers , Iasi 2019-10-30 - 2019-10-30
Lecture

La Rosa, Angela Daniela. (2019) Electromagnetic shielding for buildings using conductive polymer composites: A life cycle assessment study . 18° International Conference on Fracture and Damage Mechanics , Rodos 2019-09-16 - 2019-09-18

Språkvelger

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