Since August 2020, I have been nominated Head of the Knowledge Exchange Strategy Service at the Technological Development Division of ENEA - Innovation & Development Directorate. From July 2015 until August 2020, I have been working in the Business Associations and Industry Unit of the Customer Relationship Management Directorate of ENEA. Previously, I have been Head of the Technological Perspectives for Sustainability Service at ENEA – Research and Strategy Central Unit (UCSTUDI) since March 2014. I hold a Ph.D. in Economics (Université catholique de Louvain, 2007), a Master of Arts in Economics (Université catholique de Louvain, 2004), and a BA Degree in Political Sciences (University of Bologna, 2001). My research activity focuses on the assessment of the socio-economic impact and market and industry implications of national and international energy and environmental policies. I also work on the elaboration of socio-economic indicators based on a life-cycle approach for the sustainability assessment of innovative technologies, e.g., for waste tyres recycling (the EU FP7 TyGRe project, Environment) and for energy generation (the EERA Joint Programme on Economic, Environment & Social Impact (e3s) of energy technologies). I lead the ENEA working group for the study “Consumer preferences for smart homes: a comparative study between the United Kingdom, Germany and Italy”, that was based on a participatory approach centered on workshops, public hearings and focus groups with selected groups of potential consumers in the three countries, and aimed at understanding the socio-economic barriers to the adoption and use of innovative technologies in a domestic environment. I've been involved in the management and research activities of several projects both at the national and at the EU level such as the FP7 projects ATEsT (Energy), MILESECURE-2050 (Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities), and the contract “Model to assess CO2 emissions of regional policy programmes” commissioned by the European Commission, Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy (DG REGIO).