Nicola Pepe, who graduated in Environmental and Land Planning Engineering from the Politecnico di Milano, also earned a Ph.D. in Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering from the same institution.
Building on his experience during his doctoral studies, which focused on combining the effects of emissive areas and different source categories on air quality using a US EPA photochemical model (CAMx) and the subsequent application of a hybrid model for source analysis, he collaborates at ARIANET on environmental impact assessment studies for significant industrial sites located throughout Italy. This work involves the application of both Eulerian (FARM) and Lagrangian particle (SPRAY) three-dimensional models.
Among his activities, he has contributed to the evaluation and estimation of anthropogenic emissions at national and regional scales and has worked on the application of Gaussian and three-dimensional diffusion models in the context of environmental impact studies for airports and industrial sites.
He has also explored the role of sources in atmospheric pollution, collaborating with the European FAIRMODE community, with a focus on the Po Valley area.