Carlo De Servi is Senior Researcher at VITO, a Belgian research and technology organization in the areas of cleantech and sustainable development. He graduated in Mechanical Engineering at Politecnico di Milano in 2008 with a thesis on "Control Strategies for an Hybrid Vehicle Drivetrain".

In 2009, he started working as research engineer at the Energy Department of the same institution, where he completed his PhD in 2014. Afterwards, he further specialized in the Propulsion & Power group of TU Delft, where he worked as PostDoc for 3 years, becoming an expert in energy system analysis and design.

His professional experience revolves around energy conversion technologies, in particular on organic Rankine cycles turbogenerators, as well as modelling and simulation techniques for the same systems.