Marcello Colledani is Full Professor at the Mechanical Engineering Department of Politecnico di Milano, Italy. He has carried out research activities at the Laboratory for Manufacturing and Productivity (LMP) of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is Fellow Member of the CIRP, the International Academy for Production Engineering.
He is the coordinator of the Horizon Europe BATTwin, for the development of a zero-defect manufacturing approach based on digital twins for the battery manufacturing process-chain, and the I3 project BatMass, for the development of a circular value-chain for EV batteries.
He is coordinator of the HE project rEUman, developing human-centric technologies and solutions for enhanced remanufacturing-oriented business cases in automotive, optoelectronics and home appliance industries. He has scientific responsibility of the inter-departmental laboratory “CIRC-eV: Circular Economy for Electrified Vehicles of the Future” at Polimi. He was coordinating the 2020 Lombardy Region Circular Economy Roadmap.
He is the coordinator of the Pilot Network on “De- and Remanufacturing” for the “ESM – Efficient and Sustainable Manufacturing” Pilot within the Vanguard Initiative. He is the coordinator of the Regional industrial working group on “De-and remanufacturing for Circular Economy”, within AFIL, the Lombardy Region Cluster on Intelligent Factories.

He is the coordinator of the EU H2020 large-scale demonstration projects FiberEUse,
the I3 project DeremCO, and the Horizon Europe projects YourBan and ReBoat, targeting composite recovery and re-use, the EU H2020 project DigiPrime, for the development of
a digital platform for circular economy in cross-sectorial sustainable value networks, with

a focus on e-mobility. He is co-founder of the start-up FiberEUse Tech.

He is in the Board of Directors of APRA Europe –  Automotive Part Remanufacturing Association. He is member of the Advisory Board of the Rematec, the most important remanufacturing exhibition in Europe.