Lucia Cattani

Born in Milan on 01/19/1975

Education and professional career:

• Classical high school diploma
• Five-year degree in Civil Engineering, hydraulic specialization, University of Pavia, Italy;
• First level post-graduate Master's degree in protection and planning of the quality of surface waters, University of Pavia, Italy;
• Competent technician in environmental acoustics and energy certification.
• PhD in Energy and Environmental Technologies, University of Bergamo, Italy.

From 2001 to 2014, she worked as an external researcher, lecturer of thematic seminars, and adjunct professor for the Technical Physics laboratory at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Pavia. In particular, she was among the pioneers of energy certification of buildings and gave lectures in many of the first professional courses for the training of the energy certifier professional figure. At the same time, she worked as a freelancer in the fields of acoustics, renewable energy, and energy efficiency.

In 2012, he was part of the research team at the University of Pavia that designed a new machine to extract water from the air.

In 2014, she became Head of Research and Development at SEAS-SA, Société de l’Eau Aérienne Suisse, established following the success of the prototype.

In 2016, she was selected as one of the 100 Italian experts in the STEM field (100 Experts project).

Today she continues her pioneering work in the field of water extraction from air at SEAS-SA as R&D manager and at the University of Pavia as an external researcher; she is co-author of numerous international scientific articles and popular publications, teaches in the field of Technical Physics, and serves as a topic editor and reviewer for international scientific journals.

After serving two terms as a Councilor of the Order of Engineers of the Province of Lodi, he is a member of the International Atmospheric Water Harvesting Association (IAWHA), an international organization dedicated to the development and dissemination of knowledge and technologies for atmospheric water harvesting.