Marialaura Di SommaDr. Eng. Marialaura Di Somma - PhD in Mechanical Systems Engineering /, Research Engineer of Department of Energy Technologies and Renewable Energy Resources, Smart Grids and Energy Networks Laboratory of ENEA (Italian National Agency for New Technolgies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development), Portici (Naples), Italy.
Marialaura Di Somma received the MSc Degree (cum laude) in Mechanical Engineering for Energy and Environment and the Ph. D degree in Mechanical Systems Engineering from the University of Naples Federico II (Italy), in 2012 and 2016, respectively. In 2014, she held a position as visiting research assistant at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Connecticut (CT, USA). Since December 2014, she is Research Engineer of the Smart Grid and Energy Networks Laboratory Energy Technologies and Renewable Sources Department of ENEA (Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development). Her main research interests include: design and operation optimization of DER in the context of local energy systems through multi-objective approach, bidding strategies of DER aggregators for participation to the various market options, demand response, multi-carrier energy systems modeling and optimization, and power systems design and control.
Since 2016, she is representative of ENEA within the European Energy Research Alliance - Joint Programme on Smart Grids (EERA JP SG), whereas since 2017, she is member of Mission Innovation - Innovation Challenge 1 on Smart Grids.
She is scientific coordinator of a number of National and European projects on DER scheduling and control and smart grid topics, by also acting as Vice Project Coordinator and Work Package Leader. She is the Coordinator of the H2020 Project eNeuron on Local Energy Communities. In 2020, she has been awarded among the ten most talented under 40 researchers in Italy by Fortune magazine. She has supervised several MSc theses, and international fellowship programmes. She also acts as guest editor for special issues associated to international scientific journals, and she has been plenary speaker in several scientific conferences, chair in international conferences and member of scientific committees. She is author of many scientific papers published in international journals and proceedings of international conferences, most of them awarded as highly-cited papers. Read More Read Less