Bardi is a researcher on materials for new energy sources, a contributor to the now-defunct website, "The Oil Drum". He is the co-founder and former president of ASPO Italy, a member of the scientific committee of the Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas [it] (ASPO),[3] a member of the Club of Rome,[4] and author of several books, including The Limits to Growth Revisited.
Personal life
Bardi was married in 1976 to his wife Grazia and is a father of two, Francesco and Donata.
Works
Books
Bardi, Ugo (2003). La fine del petrolio (in Italian). Ed. Riuniti. ISBN9788835954255.
Bardi, Ugo; Pancani, Giovanni (2006). Storia petrolifera del bel paese (in Italian). Ed. Le Balze. ISBN8875391262.
Bardi, Ugo (2008). Il libro della Chimera (in Italian). Firenze: Ed. Polistampa. ISBN9788859603658.
Bardi, Ugo (2011). The Limits to Growth Revisited. Springer Briefs in Energy. ISBN9781441994158..
Bardi, Ugo; Alvarez Pereira, Carlos, eds. (2022). Limits and Beyond: 50 Years on from The Limits to Growth, what Did We Learn and What's Next?. Exapt Press. ISBN9781914549038.
Journals
Ugo Bardi, Andrea Atrei, Gianfranco Rovida, Initial stages of oxidation of the Ni3Al alloy: structure and composition of the aluminum oxide overlayer studied by XPS, LEIS and LEED. In: Surface Science 268, Issues 1–3, (1992), 87–97, doi:10.1016/0039-6028(92)90952-3.
Stefano Caporali, Alessio Fossati, Alessandro Lavacchi, Ilaria Perissi, Alexander Tolstogouzov, Ugo Bardi, Aluminium electroplated from ionic liquids as protective coating against steel corrosion. In: Corrosion Science 50, Issue 2, 2008, 534–539, doi:10.1016/j.corsci.2007.08.001.
Ilaria Perissi, Ugo Bardi, Stefano Caporali, Alessio Fossati, Alessandro Lavacchi, Ionic liquids as diathermic fluids for solar trough collectors’ technology: A corrosion study. In: Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells 92, Issue 4, (2008), 510–517, doi:10.1016/j.solmat.2007.11.007.