Organizers & Commitee

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Chairman of the Conference

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.

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.

Organizers

Elio Jannelli

Dept. of Engineering – University of Naples "Parthenope" – ATENA Scarl, Italy

Massimiliano Della Pietra

ENEA

Adele Pianese

University of Naples "Parthenope"

Scientific Comittee

Dr. Günter R. Simader
Austrian Energy Agency

Austria

Dr. Ana María Ruz Frias
Chilean Economic Development Agency - CORFO 

Chile

Dr. Laurent Antoni
CEA, IPHE 
Dr. Mathias Gérard
CEA

France

Dr. Jari Kiviaho
VTT Technical Research Center of Finland 
Dr. Marcus Rautanen 
VTT Technical Research Center of Finland 

Finland

Dr.Ing. Mihails Kusnezoff
Fraunhofer-Institut für Keramische Technologien und Systeme IKTS
Dr. Can Remzi Samsun
Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZJ) 

Germany

Dr. Thanos Stubos
NCSRD
Prof. Panagiotis Tsiakaras
University of Thessaly

Greece

Prof. Dharam Buddhi
Uttaranchal University

India

Dr. Antonino Aricò
CNR ITAE
Prof. Linda Barelli
Università degli Studi di Perugia
Dr. Andrea Baricci
Politecnico di Milano
Dr. Marcello Baricco
Università di Torino
Prof. Domenico Borello
Università di Roma “La Sapienza” 
Prof. Barbara Bosio
Università di Genova
Prof. Stefano Campanari
Politecnico di Milano
Dr. Luigi Crema
Fondazione Bruno Kessler 
Dr. Pierangela Cristiani
RSE - Ricerca sul Sistema Energetico spa
Prof. Umberto Desideri
Università degli Studi di Pisa
Prof. Vito Di Noto
Università di Padova 
Dr. Giorgio Graditi
ENEA
Dr. Adolfo Iulianelli
CNR ITM
Prof. Aristide Massardo 
Università di Genova 
Prof. Nicola Massarotti
Università di Napoli "Parthenope" 
Prof. Mariagiovanna Minutillo
Università di Napoli "Parthenope" 
Dr. Giulia Monteleone
ENEA
Prof. Vincenzo Palma
Università degli Studi di Salerno
Prof. Alessandra Perna
Università degli Studi di Cassino 
Prof. Cesare Pianese
Università degli Studi di Salerno
Prof. Massimo Santarelli
Politecnico di Torino
Dr. Vinod Kumar Sharma
ENEA
Prof. Giuseppe Spazzafumo
Università degli Studi di Cassino 
Prof. Gaetano Squadrito
CNR ITAE
Dr. Rodolfo Taccani
Università di Trieste
Prof. Stefano Ubertini
Università della Tuscia
Dr. Bianca Maria Vaglieco
STEMS Istituto Motori

Italy

Dr. Eiji Ohira
NEDO 

Japan

Prof. Jim Hinkley,
Victoria University of Wellington

New Zeland

Dr.Marie-Laure Fontaine
SINTEF 

Norway

Dr. Marcin Błesznowski 
Institute of PowerEngineering - IPE 
Dr. Jakub Kupecki
Institute of Power Engineering - IPE 

Poland

Dr. Carmen Rangel 
LNEG - National Laboratory of Energy and Geology 

Portugal

Prof. Justo Lobato Bajo
University of Castilla-La Mancha 
Dr. Emilio Nieto Gallego 
Centro Nacional del Hidrógeno (CNH2) 

Spain

Dr. Jonghee Han
Kentech 

South Korea

Dr. Martin Andersson
Lund University 
Dr. Carina Lagergren
KTH 

Sweden

Dr. Fehmi Akgun
TUBITAK Marmara Research Center
Dr. Isil Isik-Gulsac
Tubitak MAM 
Dr. Cigdem Karadag 
TUBITAK Marmara Research Center 

Turkey

Prof. Mirella Di Lorenzo 
University of Bath 
Prof. John Irvine
University of St Andrews 
Prof. Vladimir Molkow
University of Ulster 

United Kingdom

Prof. Jack Brouwer
University of California Irvine 
Dr.Whitney Goldsborough Colella
Gaia Energy Research Institute 

USA