Giovanni Molari will be the new Rector of the University of Bologna, he won the run-off election with 1825,01. His mandate will cover six years, from 2021 to 2027.
Since May 2018, he’s been the director of the new Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences and a member of the University Senate of the University of Bologna. From 2015 to 2018, he was vice director of the Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences of the University of Bologna.
Giovanni Molari obtained a Phd in Engineering of Materials at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, became a qualified engineer in 1998 after getting his degree in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Bologna in October 1998. From 2000 to 2010 he worked as a researcher and later as an Associate professor from 2010 to 2016. He is currently full professor at the Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences of the University of Bologna.
His research activity focuses on the design and experimental validation of the reliability of agricultural tractors and machines with particular reference to accelerated tests of machines and transmissions. He also dealt with machines for animal husbandry, the use of biomasses to produce energy and other agricultural machines.
He coordinated several research projects, in particular two PRIN projects (Progetti di Ricerca di Interesse Nazionale - Research Projects of National Interest) and one FIRB project (Programma Futuro in Ricerca - Future in Research Program) financed by the Italian government, as well as a number of research contracts with tractor and agricultural machine enterprises. He authored more than 140 between papers, book chapters and books of which 40 indexed on Scopus. He was chief editor of the Journal of Agricultural Engineering from 2014 to 2018, where he was managing editor for the 2006-2014 period. He’s now editing a special issue of Biosystems Engineering and is also a reviewer for many journals within the field of agricultural engineering.
