Christian Ferrarese is an Italian project manager and laboratory manager currently working for the Joint Research Center of the European Commission in Ispra, Italy. He obtained a Master's degree in Materials Engineering and Nanotechnology from Politecnico di Milano in 2020 and has over 8 years of experience managing emission testing facilities and experimental campaigns. He is responsible for logistics, testing, data analysis, and reporting related to assessing vehicles' compliance with emission regulations.

1. Christian Ferrarese
Date of birth: 22/02/1993 Nationality: Italian Gender: Male
(+39) 3293841972 christian.ferrarese.93@gmail.com
Via Umberto Maddalena 17, 21018, Sesto Calende, Italy
16/02/2022 – CURRENT – Ispra, Italy
PROJECT MANAGER - SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH – JOINT RESEARCH CENTER - EUROPEAN
COMMISSION
Contributing to tasks foreseen by the new Real Driving Emission legislation and the Regulation 2018/858 by
managing and following the experimental campaigns having the objective of monitoring the latest models
of passenger cars and to check their compliance with the current emission legislation.
Laboratory manager for two new state-of-art emission testing facilities.
01/02/2020 – 01/07/2020 – Ispra, Italy
SCIENTIFIC LABORATORY TECHNICIAN – JOINT RESEARCH CENTER - EUROPEAN COMMISSION
Being part of Sustainable Transport Unit operating in the VELA (Vehicle Emission Laboratories), I am
responsible for the management of VELA 10-11, two new state-of-the-art facilities dedicated to the
compliance checks of vehicles already on the market. I am currently following the plant commissioning and
I manage the logistics related to the testing campaigns.
Preparation and execution of experimental testing campaigns for light-duty vehicles in order to asses
their compliance with emission regulations in Labs (WLTP) and on-road (RDE) in the context of
market surveillance and in-service conformity
Management and validation of the test results
Laboratory management
Contributing to the reports summarizing the findings of the experimental activity
Planning of testing campaigns
Data analysis and Reporting
Research Projects
Ispra, Italy
WORK EXPERIENCE
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2. 09/2017 – 02/10/2020 – Milano, Italy
MASTER OF SCIENCE DEGREE IN MATERIALS ENGINEERING AND NANOTECHNOLOGY – Politec
nico di Milano
Expert professional figure in materials and designer of processes and products.
Full knowledge of the basic characteristics and use of the different classes of materials, as well as of the
most different and innovative manufacturing techniques and their influence on the final properties of the
products.
Specific skills:
Develop of surface treatment processes
Develop technologies, products and applications at the nanometric and micrometric scale
Relevant coursework:
Atomic physics
Solid state physics
Functional materials
Materials characterization
Nuclear techniques for the analysis of materials
Surface technology & engineering
Plasma for surface micro & nano structuring
Nanotechnology and nanomaterials
Advanced organic coatings
Field(s) of study
Engineering, manufacturing and construction
Thesis: Surface wrinkling in bilayered polymer-polymer systems by instability methods
EQF level 7
09/2012 – 03/2018 – Milano, Italy
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE DEGREE IN MATERIALS ENGINEERING AND NANOTECHNOLOGY – Poli
tecnico di Milano
EQF level 6
09/2007 – 07/2012 – Sesto Calende, Italy
SCIENTIFIC HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA – Isis Carlo Alberto dalla Chiesa
EQF level 4
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
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3. Mother tongue(s): ITALIAN
Other language(s):
UNDERSTANDING SPEAKING WRITING
Listening Reading
Spoken
production
Spoken
interaction
ENGLISH B2 B2 B2 B2 B2
FRENCH A2 A2 A2 A2 A2
Levels: A1 and A2: Basic user; B1 and B2: Independent user; C1 and C2: Proficient user
Microsoft Office Latex Python
Communication and interpersonal skills
Highly skilled at interacting and working in a multicultural environment.
Highly skilled at teamworking.
LANGUAGE SKILLS
DIGITAL SKILLS
COMMUNICATION AND INTERPERSONAL SKILLS