Lorenzo Rinaldi, PhD

Lorenzo is a post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Energy of the Politecnico di Milano and co-founder of eNextGen. His activities span across corporate and academic research, focusing on integrated industrial ecology and energy systems models for the analysis of transition scenarios, with a special focus on the integration of critical supply chains of energy transition-related technologies into input-output databases. He is an active contributor to several Python-based open-source software projects, including MARIO, the main software adopted by eNextGen for database management and carbon footprint analysis. He contributes to the vision on improving eNextGen's products and services and developing new functionalities.

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Recent publications:

• Stevanato et al, Data-driven analysis for the characterization of household appliance ownership and use in Sub-Saharan Africa, Renewable Energy Strategy Reviews, 2025. Link

• Rinaldi et al, Assessing environmental and market implications of steel decarbonisation strategies: a hybrid input-output model for the European union, Environmental Research Letters, 2024. Link

• Rinaldi et al, When are battery electric vehicles economically convenient? A sensitivity analysis based on multi-carrier residential energy system renovation modelling, Energy Reports, 2024. Link

• Tahavori et al, MARIO: A Versatile and User-Friendly Software for Building Input-Output Models, Journal of Open Research Software, 2023. Link

• Rinaldi et al, Assessing critical materials demand in global energy transition scenarios based on the Dynamic Extraction and Recycling Input-Output framework (DYNERIO), Resources Conservation and Recycling, 2023. Link