Final Defences – PhD in Management Engineering – 16 April 2025

In presence and online streaming

Building BL26/B – Room 1.25 (first floor)
Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering
Via R. Lambruschini, 4/B

Committee Chair: Paola Garrone, Full Professor, Politecnico di Milano

Committee Members:
Ottmar Edenhofer, Professor, Potsdam Institute for ClimateImpact Research(PIK), Germany
Gianluca Santoni, Trade Economist, Centre d'Etudes Prospectives et d'Informations Internationales, France

02:00 – 02:30 pm | Briefing and Introduction to the PhD Programme (Private Session – Committee Members Only)

02:30 – 05:30 pm | PhD Defence Sessions – Introduction by Committee Chair – Professor Paola Garrone
Presentation (30 minutes) | Discussion and defence (30 minutes)

02:30 – 03:30 pm | PhD Candidate: Pietro Andreoni
PhD Programmein Management Engineering (full time)
Thesis Title: “Climate Engineering: Regional and Distributional Implications in Climate-Economic Modelling. A collection of model-based appraisals on the implications of different governance settings of geoengineering options considering the social and spatial heterogeneity of their consequences”
Supervisor: Massimo Tavoni, Full Professor, Politecnico di Milano

03:30 – 04:30 pm | PhD Candidate: Matteo Calcaterra
PhD Programmein Management Engineering (full time)
Thesis Title: “Advances in Modeling Macro-Finance amid Climate Change: Adequacy and Examples”
Supervisor: Massimo Tavoni, Full Professor, Politecnico di Milano

04:30 – 05:30 pm | PhD Candidate: Yi Wang
PhD Programmein Management Engineering (part time)
Thesis Title: “The Effects of Demographic Changes on Structural Change: Evidence from China”
Supervisor: Giulia Felice, Associate Professor, Politecnico di Milano

05:30 – 6:00 pm | Final Assessment (Private Session – Committee Members Only)

6:00 pm | Proclamation of the results