ANDREA PIETRELLI

Attualmente Ricercatore in Tenure Track (RTT) presso il Dipartimento di INGEGNERIA DELL'INFORMAZIONE, ELETTRONICA E TELECOMUNICAZIONI.
Dottore di Ricerca presso Sapienza, Università di Roma e presso l'Ecole Centrale de Lyon. Laurea Magistrale in Ing. delle comunicazioni presso Sapienza, Università di Roma.
Ricerca scientifica nei campi: elettronica, bioelettrochimica, sensori e biosensori, tecniche di energy harvesting, microbial fuel cell, sistemi embedded e reti di sensori wireless, radar e GPR, remote sensing, strumentazione e aquisizione.

Pubblicazioni scientifiche:
International Journals

1. Pietrelli, A., Micangeli, A., Ferrara, V., Raffi, A. Wireless sensor network powered by a terrestrial microbial fuel cell as a sustainable land monitoring energy system. Sustainability, 6(10),7263-7275. 2014. https://doi.org/10.3390/su6107263
2. Ferrara, V., Pietrelli, A., Chicarella, S., Pajewski, L. GPR/GPS/IMU system as buried objects locator. Measurement, 114, 534-541. 2018. DOI: 10.1016/J.MEASUREMENT.2017.05.014
3. Ancona V., Barra A., Borello D., Ferrara V., Grenni P., Pietrelli A., Microbial fuel cell: An energy harvesting technique for environmental remediation, Int. Journal Environ. Impacts, 1-12, 168-179. 2020. DOI. 10.2495/EI-V3-N2-168-179
4. Tsipa, A., Varnava, C. K., Grenni, P., Ferrara, V., Pietrelli, A. Bio-Electrochemical System Depollution Capabilities and Monitoring Applications: Models, Applicability, Advanced Bio-Based Concept for Predicting Pollutant Degradation and Microbial Growth Kinetics via Gene Regulation Modelling. Processes, 9(6), 1038. 2021. doi.org/10.3390/pr9061038
5. Kaplan G., Rashid T., Gasparovic M., Pietrelli A., Ferrara V. “Monitoring War-Generated Environmental Security Using Remote Sensing - A Review,” Land Degradation and Development, 33 (10), 1513-1526. 2022. doi.org/10.1002/ldr.4249
6. Kaplan, G., Aydinli, H. O., Pietrelli, A., Mieyeville, F., & Ferrara, V. (2022). Oil-contaminated soil modeling and remediation monitoring in arid areas using remote sensing. Remote Sensing, 14(10), 2500. DOI: 10.1002/ldr.4249
7. Kordek-Khalil, K., Altiok, E., Salvian, A., Siekierka, A., Torres-Mendieta, R., Avignone-Rossa, C., Pietrelli A. ... & Yalcinkaya, F. (2023). Nanocomposite use in MFCs: a state of the art review. Sustainable Energy & Fuels, 7, 5608-5624 DOI: 10.1039/D3SE00975K
8. Lovecchio, N., Di Meo, V., & Pietrelli, A. (2023). Customized Multichannel Measurement System for Microbial Fuel Cell Characterization. Bioengineering 2023, 10, 624. DOI:10.3390/bioengineering10050624
9. Nastro, R. A., Salvian, A., Kuppam, C., Pasquale, V., Pietrelli, A., & Rossa, C. A. (2023). Inorganic Carbon Assimilation and Electrosynthesis of Platform Chemicals in Bioelectrochemical Systems (BESs) Inoculated with Clostridium saccharoperbutylacetonicum N1-H4. Microorganisms, 11(3), 735. DOI:10.3390/microorganisms11030735 CITAZIONI: 3
10. Nguyen, T. D. T., Altiok, E., Siekierka, A., Pietrelli, A., & Yalcinkaya, F. (2023). Preparation and Characterization of Microfiltration membrane by Utilization Non-Solvent Induced Phase Separation Technique. Journal of Membrane Science and Research, 9(2). DOI:10.22079/jmsr.2023.1995689.1594
11. Berlitz, C. A., Pietrelli, A., Mieyeville, F., Pillonnet, G., & Allard, B. (2023). Microbial Fuel Cell as Battery Range Extender for Frugal IoT. Energies, 16(18), 6501. DOI:10.3390/en16186501
12. Yalcinkaya, F., Torres-Mendieta, R., Hruza, J., Vávrová, A., Svobodová, L., Pietrelli, A., & Ieropoulos, I. (2024). Nanofiber applications in microbial fuel cells for enhanced energy generation: a mini review. RSC advances, 14(13), 9122-9136. DOI: 10.1039/D4RA00674G
13. Lazar, N. E., Mazkad, D., Kharti, H., Yalcinkaya, F., Pietrelli, A., Ferrara, V., ... & Lotfi, E. M. (2024). Maximizing power generation in single-chamber microbial fuel cells: the role of LiTa0. 5Nb0. 5O3/g-C3N4 photocatalyst. Materials for Renewable and Sustainable Energy, 13, 209–218. DOI: 10.1007/s40243-024-00259-6
14. Kaplan, G., Yalcinkaya, F., Altiok E., Pietrelli A., Nastro R. A., Lovecchio N., Ieropoulos I. A., and Tsipa A. (2024) "The Role of Remote Sensing in the Evolution of Water Pollution Detection and Monitoring: A Comprehensive Review." Physics and Chemistry of the Earth

International Conferences
15. Chicarella, S., Ferrara, V., & Pietrelli, A. (2015, October). Integration of Ground Penetrating Radar with Global Position System and Inertial Measurement Unit for archaeological applications. In 1st International Conference on Metrology for Archaeology (Vol. 1, pp. 112-115). 2015. ISBN 978-88-940453-3-8
16. Pietrelli, A., Ferrara, V., Micangeli, A., & Uribe, L. (2015, February). Efficient energy harvesting for microbial fuel cell dedicated to wireless sensor network. In AISEM Annual Conference, 2015 XVIII IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/AISEM.2015.7066817
17. Pietrelli, A., Ferrara, V., Khaled, F., Allard, B., Buret, F., Costantini, F. (2016, June). Electrical characterization of MFC for low power applications. In Environment and Electrical Engineering (EEEIC), 2016 IEEE 16th International Conference on (pp. 1-5). IEEE. 2016. DOI 10.1109/EEEIC.2016.7555624
18. Chizh M., Pietrelli A., Ferrara V., Zhuravlev A., ‘Development of embedded and user-side software for interactive setup of a frequency-modulated continuous wave ground penetrating radar dedicated to educational purpose,’ Microwaves, Antennas, Communications and Electronic Systems (COMCAS), 2017 IEEE International Conference on, pp. 1-5. 2017. DOI 10.1109/COMCAS.2017.8244780
19. Pietrelli A., Ferrara V., Allard B., Buret F., Lovecchio N., Bavasso I., ’Custom measuring instrument dedicated to microbial fuel cell characterization,’ poster presentation, EU-ISMET 4, International Society for Microbial Electrochemistry and Technology European edition, 12th-14th September, Newcastle, UK, 2018.
20. Pietrelli A., Bavasso I., Lovecchio N., Ferrara V., Allard B., ‘MFC as biosensor, bioreactor, bioremediator,’ IWASI 2019 conference, IEEE International Workshop on Advances in Sensors and Interfaces, June 2019, Otranto, Italy. DOI 10.1109/IWASI.2019.8791412
21. Pietrelli A., Lovecchio N., Ferrara V., Allard B., ‘Custom measuring system tailored for MFCs,’ IWASI 2019 conference, IEEE International Workshop on Advances in Sensors and Interfaces, June 2019, Otranto, Italy. DOI 10.1109/IWASI.2019.8791385
22. Pietrelli A., Allard B., Ferrara V., Mieyeville F. ‘Review on MFC for application to monitoring,’ 3rd MEEP International Symposium 2019 Microbial, Enzymatic & Bio-Photovoltaic Electrochemical Reactors, 3rd-4th July, Lucerne, Switzerland, 2019.
23. Ancona, V., Caracciolo, A. B., Borello, D., Ferrara, V., Grenni, P., Pietrelli, A. (2020). Microbial fuel cell: an energy harvesting technique for environmental remediation. 6th International Conference on Disaster Management and Human Health Risk: Reducing Risk, Improving Outcomes, 25 – 27 September 2019, Ancona, Italy. WIT Transactions on The Built Environment, vol. 190, 2020
24. Aimola G., Gagliardi G, Pietrelli A., Ancona V., Barra Caracciolo A., et Al. ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION AND POSSIBLE USE OF TERRESTRIAL MICROBIAL FUEL CELLS, WIT Transactions on The Built Environment, Vol. 207, ISSN 1743-3509, pp. 121–133, 2022 DOI: 10.2495/DMAN210101
25. Carlos Augusto Berlitz, Pietrelli. A, Gaël Pillonnet, Bruno Allard, Application of Weak MFCs in Power Management, 5th MEEP International Symposium 2023 Microbial, Enzymatic & Bio-Photovoltaic Electrochemical Reactors, 5-7 July, Lucerne, Switzerland, 2023
26. Kaplan, G., Yalcinkaya F., Tsipa A.., Pietrelli A., Mieyeville F., Ferrara V., Allard B., Advancing Remote Sensing for Continuous Monitoring and Detection of Water Pollution Incidents, International Conference of Environmental Remote Sensing and GIS (ICERS) , Zagreb, Croatia, 11-12 July 2024, DOI 10.5281/zenodo.11621258

National Conferences
27. Pietrelli, A., Ferrara, V., Allard, B., Buret, F., Costantini, F., Lovecchio, N. Khaled F., (2017)."Microbial Fuel Cells: Performance and Applications." World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology, International Journal of Energy and Power Engineering.19th Conference on Fuel Cell Engineering and Technology, London, UK nel November 23-24. 2017
28. Pietrelli, A., Ferrara, V., Allard B., Buret, F., Khaled, F., Bavasso, I., Costantini F., ‘MFC Performance and Applications,’ poster presentation at SIE 2017, 49th Annual Meeting of the Associazione Società Italiana di Elettronica, Palermo, 2017.
29. Pietrelli, A., Allard, B., Ferrara, F., Buret, F.,“Electrical valorisation of Microbial fuel cell”, proceedings Symposium de Genie Electrique SGE, Nancy. 2018.
30. Pietrelli A., V. Ferrara V., Allard B., Buret F., Lovecchio N., ‘An original measuring board for MFC electrical characterization,’ poster presentation at SIE 2018 50th Annual Meeting of the Associazione Società Italiana di Elettronica, Naples, 2018.