Research Output per year
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Dr
School of Engineering and Applied Science, Aston University
B4 7ET Birmingham
United Kingdom
Research output per year
Marco Della Gala joined Aston University in July 2018 to work, as “Innovation Expert”, on the project AGRI - Agri-tech Growth and Resources for Innovation. His area of expertise is in Supply Chain Management and he has been working to support food companies to innovate their processes, as well as to adopt information technologies, innovative business models and collaborative networking models.
Marco’s background is in management engineering, in which he graduated from the University of Calabria, Italy, in 2004, followed later by a Phd in Civil and Industrial Engineering at the same University in 2018, with a thesis titled “Organizational models and ICT services to support the sustainable development of local agro-food and touristic systems”. He also gained a Masters in knowledge engineering in 2006. Since his master degree, Marco has been working both in academic sector as research fellow and lecturer, and with companies in the ICT and in the food sector as business process analyst, information system and db designer, as well as mobile app and web developer. He also co-founded an IT start-up company that was awarder with the second prizes at a regional business plan competion in Italy and funded by an EFRD project.
Prior to join Aston University Marco worked at the Community and Countryside Research Institute – University of Gloucestershire on the project SOFIA – Situated learning Opportunities to Foster ICT adoption in Alternative Agro-Food Networks funded in the framework of the Horizon2020 Programme by the Marie Sladvoska-Curie Action (Individual Fellowships). Moreover, during his experience as a research fellow at the University of Calabria, he participated to three large collaborative research and industrial innovation projects working on organizational models e technologies fostering new forms of collaboration in the tourism sector; methods, models and new interactions channels among producers and consumers supporting local food systems management; organizational models and ICTs supporting Alternative Agro-Food Network.
Marco’s more recent research interests are in Sustainable Supply Chain Management and new collaborative business models fostered by ICTs.
PhD
1 Apr 2014 → 8 May 2018
Award Date: 8 May 2018
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference publication
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review