• Sustainability and efficiency of productive processes;         
• Energy conservation and changes in climate;         
• Mobility and Transport;         
• Nutrition and food quality;         
• Environmental Management.

Renewable Energy

Quality of life 

• Effects of the mountain cultural and environmental conditions on strawberry quality

Product and process innovation

• Design of lean and agile material handling systems in make-to-order production
• Identification of the main drivers of market success for products and services in business-to-business

Management of biotic and abiotic resources

• Cause e prevenzione delle “necrosi fogliari” della cv.  di melo “Kanzi”   
• Ciclo degli elementi nutritive nell’agrumeto (sottoprogetto del progetto nazionale: Ricerche avanzate in agrumicoltura e loro applicazioni)
• Ecological and physiological consequences of soil nitrogen availability for trees and herbaceous plants   
• Molecular basis of chemicals and odorants recognition in the insect model organism Tribolium castaneum by structural biology of chemoreceptor proteins
• Characterization of atypical OBPs in Tribolium castaneum (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae)
• Linking geomorphological processes and vegetation dynamics in gravel-bed rivers
• In-channel wood in mountain rivers of South Tyrol: volumes and management
• Geological and hydrological processes: monitoring, modelling and impact in the North-Eastern Italy
• The impact of tree species diversity on tree growth and herb-layer diversity – ecological studies and management implications at the biosphere reserve Valle del Ticino, Italy

 
Climate change and Energy efficiency  

• Assessing the potential for CO2 sequestration by apple orchards in South Tyrol 
• Assessing the role of environmental and tree-internal factors to soil respiration in the apple orchard  
• An estimate of the efficiency of air-to-air heat exchangers in conventional HVAC systems: experimental analysis and validation
• Technologies and materials for passive coolings and hygrothemal control of indoor conditions

• Mathematical Modelling and Qualitative Analysis of Complex Systems