Ugo Bardi

Ugo Bardi was born in Florence, Italy, on 23 May 1952 and is a professor of physical chemistry at the University of Florence. His research concerns materials for new energy sources. He contributed to the now-defunct website The Oil Drum, co-founded ASPO Italy and served as its president, sits on the scientific committee of the Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas, and is a member of the Club of Rome. His books include La fine del petrolio (2003), The Limits to Growth Revisited (2011), Extracted (2014), The Seneca Effect (2017) and, with Ilaria Perissi, The Empty Sea (2021). His journal papers run from the oxidation of a nickel aluminide alloy studied by surface methods (1992) and ionic liquids for supercapacitors and solar collectors to the shape of oil production curves (2005) and the stages of the peak oil idea (2009).