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Acerbi Federica

Researcher

Federica Acerbi is an Assistant Professor in the SoM Manufacturing Group of Politecnico di Milano (Italy) at the Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering.

She developed her PhD research at Politecnico di Milano in both academic and industrial contexts with attention towards sustainable operations management in manufacturing. Her research focuses on data and information valorisation enabling the embracement of circular economy strategies and principles by manufacturing companies. She is involved in European and national research projects. She is also involved in industrial consultancy projects facilitating the twin transition of manufacturing companies. She is lecturer for two master courses at Politecnico di Milano: Operations Management and Digital Manufacturing and lecturer for one Bachelor course “Impianti Industriali e Gestione della Produzione” at Politecnico di Milano. She is member of AIDI, IFIP W.G. 5.7 and IFIP W.G. 5.1 scientific communities. Within the IFIP W.G. 5.7. community, she is co-leader of the Special Interest Group on Eco-efficient and Circular Industrial Systems.


Career

PHD: Industrial Engineering, Politecnico di Milano.

Master of Science: Management Engineering, Politecnico di Milano.

Bachelor of Science: Management Engineering , Politecnico di Milano.



Research

The research area of Federica Acerbi mainly relates to sustainable and circular operations management of manufacturing companies. Specifically, Circular Manufacturing and Sustainable Manufacturing integrated with the digital transformation opportunities charcaterise the main interests of her research studies and projects. Her research is deployed through both EU-funded research projects and industrial-oriented projects.


Selected Publications

  1. Acerbi, F., Fani V., Bandinelli, R., Taisch, M. (2025), Unleashing the input–output exchange opportunities within the fashion ecosystem. Computers & Industrial Engineering, 111298, ISSN 0360-8352, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cie.2025.111298.
  2. Acerbi, F., Sassanelli, C., & Taisch, M. (2024). A maturity model enhancing data-driven circular manufacturing. Production Planning & Control, 36(7), 970–988. https://doi.org/10.1080/09537287.2024.2322608
  3. Acerbi, F., Sassanelli, C. & Taisch, M. A conceptual data model promoting data-driven circular manufacturing. Oper Manag Res15, 838–857 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12063-022-00271-x
  4. Acerbi, F., Sassanelli, C., Terzi, S., & Taisch, M. (2021). A Systematic Literature Review on Data and Information Required for Circular Manufacturing Strategies Adoption. Sustainability, 13(4), 2047. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13042047
  5. Acerbi, F., Taisch, M.(2020), A literature review on circular economy adoption in the manufacturing sector, Journal of Cleaner Production, Volume 273, 123086, ISSN 0959-6526, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.123086.


Grants, awards and Honours

  1. PhD Thesis Award “Fondazione Ing. Luigi De Januario” Sezione Componentistica ANIMP – anno 2022
  2. Best Research Proposal at APMS 2020 conference - anno 2020


Community service

Federica Acerbi is an active member of Delega Sostenibilità of the Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering

Research projects