‍Viviana Cigolotti, PhD
ENEA Italian National Agency for New Technologies,Energy and Sustainable Economic Development, Italy

Head of Laboratory for energy storage, batteries and hydrogen production and utilisation technologies in ENEA, Italian National agency for new technologies, Energy and sustainable economic development.
Executive Board Member ofHydrogen Europe Research and TC Leader of Heat&Power and Industry and ViceChair of of IEA Technology Collaboration Programme Advanced Fuel Cells.

She received her PhD inIndustrial Engineering in 2009 from University of Naples Federico II (Italy), for research conducted in ENEA and in Korea Institute of Science and Technology(KIST) at the Fuel Cell Research Center, South Korea. Her PhD research focused on the use of alternative fuels from biomass and waste for stationary applications.
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Her research activities focused on the study of hydrogen and fuel cell technologies for different applications and uses cases, integration of FCH in real ecosystems as island and ports. Her main experience is in hydrogen production, hydrogen storage and use in stationary applications and for mobile and / or transportable applications. She is coordinator and participant in several National andEuropean projects focused on the implementation of Hydrogen and Fuel Cell technologies in different applications and in different environments.

She authored several scientific papers in the above fields in international journals or international conference proceedings. She is also reviewer and member of editorial and advisor board of scientific journals. 

She started organizing EFC Conference since 2005, catalysing scientific progress and bring together the international community in order to realize what has been his professional dream across the various waves of enthusiasm: a hydrogen economy.