Stefano Grigolato is Full Professor (L. 240/10) at the University of Padua, teacher responsible for the courses on Accessibility to the Forest and logistics (6 CFU | LM in Forestry and Environmental Sciences Class LM 73 – in Italian), of Forest operations (8 CFU | LM in Forestry and Environmental Sciences Class LM 73 – in Italian) and Reduced Impact Timber Harvesting (6 CFU | LM in Forest science LM 73 – in English).

He is currently Deputy Coordinator of Unit 3.01.01 – Road networks and transportation of Division 3 of the International Union of Forest Research Organization – IUFRO. At a national level he is coordinator of the Infrastructure, Human Resources and Innovation Working Group for Sustainable Forest Management of the Italian Society of Silviculture and Forest Ecology - SISEF. He is also a member of the LegnoOK Technical-Scientific Committee of FederLegno-Arredo-FLA.

He is a member of the International Editorial Board of the Croatian Journal of Forestry Engineering – CROJFE (indexed ISI Web of Science and Scopus), ForestIST (indexed Scopus) and Forests (indexed ISI Web of Science and Scopus).

His main research interests concern forestry machinery and mechanization and their effects on the environment and operators. Recently, interest has turned to the application of sensors to support the evaluation of the operation and efficiency of machines and to support the evaluation of forest transport systems, both in terms of efficiency and in terms of safety and stability of the systems and their components. Part of the research activity is aimed at the use of high resolution spatial data derived from modern proximal and remote survey technologies to support decisions in forestry operations, specifically aimed at the operation of machines and technologies for forestry uses and for transport in the forest. The areas of applied research relating to machines and processes for transforming forest biomass into biofuels have been and still are addressed.

The research activity conducted has led to the creation and consolidation of a broad network of contacts with various stakeholders both within forestry companies and forest owners (public and private) at an administrative level (local authorities, Regions and Provinces, Ministries). In recent years, collaboration and technology transfer have therefore been consolidated through the coordination of various projects financed for local and regional development and the transfer of knowledge to support the competitiveness of the forestry sector.
To date he is co-author of more than 70 scientific articles and conference proceedings indexed ISI-Web of Science and/or Scopus from which emerges a multidisciplinary approach in line with the typical characteristics of the 07/C1 macro-sector and specifically the SSD AGR/ 09 and the interest in relating the research areas of the SSD AGR/09 with the more specifically forestry research areas such as the SSD AGR/05 and AGR/06.rnative use of forest biomass.

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