Fabiana Pirola is an Associate Professor at the Department of Management, Information and Production Engineering of the University of Bergamo (Italy) and Rector delegate for international research in the economic-technological area. She holds a master’s degree in Management Engineering and received her PhD in Logistics and Supply Chain Management at University of Bergamo. In 2008, she joined the International Logistics Program – Master of Engineering in Logistics and Supply Chain Management at MIT-Zaragoza Logistics Center in Spain. In 2010, she has been a PhD visiting student at the Bowling Green State University (Ohio, USA).
Her research interests are Product Service Systems (PSS), service engineering and operations, mainly focused on data-driven services, and smart manufacturing, mainly focused on modelling and simulation. In these areas she has been involved in and coordinated several industrial and research projects, funded at Regional, National and European level, such as DIVERSITY (EU 2015-2018), SMART4CPPS (Regional, 2018-2021), DIGIFoF (EU 2019-2021), and BLISS (2022-2025). She is member of IFIP Working Group 5.7 and IFAC Working Group 5.1 and she has published more than 50 contributions in international & national scientific journals, book chapters, as well as international conference proceedings. She publishes and is regular reviewers of international journals such as Computers in Industry, Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management, CIRP Journal of Manufacturing Science and technology
Publications
- Dehbozorgi M., M. Rossi, S. Terzi, F. Pirola, R. Pozzi. Innovating Engineering Education: Learning Factories as an Enabler of Industry 4.0 and 5.0 Competencies. In CLF 2025-15th Conference on Learning Factories, pp. 1-10
- Naheed Saqib, Roberto Pinto, Fabiana Pirola. (2025) A Preliminary multidimensional AI readiness assessment model for SME’s. Procedia Computer Science 253 pp. 774-783. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2025.01.139
- Paolo Gaiardelli, Veronica Arioli, Giuditta Pezzotta, David Romero, Federico Adrodegari, Roberto Sala, Mario Rapaccini, Nicola Saccani, Fabiana Pirola et al. (2025) Digital servitization business typologies in the manufacturing sector. International Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management 16 pp 1-23.
- Lagorio Alexandra, Chiara Cimini, Claudia Piffari, Mattia Galimberti, Fabiana Pirola, Roberto Pinto. (2024) Operationalisation and validation of a human factors-based decision support framework for technology adoption in the logistics sector. International journal of logistics research and applications 27, no. 11 pp. 2238-2260. https://doi.org/10.1080/13675567.2023.2235298
- Dehbozorgi Mohammad Hossein, Monica Rossi, Sergio Terzi, Luca Carminati, Roberto Sala, Francesco Magni, Fabiana Pirola, Rossella Pozzi, Fernanda Strozzi, Tommaso Rossi; (2024) AI Education for Tomorrow’s Workforce: Leveraging Learning Factories for AI Education and Workforce Preparedness. In 2024 IEEE 8th Forum on Research and Technologies for Society and Industry Innovation (RTSI), pp. 677-682, https://doi.org/10.1109/RTSI61910.2024.10761217