Viviana Cigolotti (Female), Researcher at ENEA, Italy. She received the MSc Degree (cum Laude) in Environmental Engineering and the Ph.D degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Naples Federico II (Italy), in 2005 and 2009, respectively. In 2009, she was research assistant at the Fuel Cell Research Center of the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), South Korea. Since 2006, he is a Researcher at ENEA, Italian National agency for new technologies, Energy and sustainable economic development. Her main research interests are in stationary and mobile application based on fuel cell technologies, polygeneration (electricity, heat and cold) and energy storage technologies. She is participant as Work Package Leader and Task Leader within National and European projects, as HyLaw (Hydrogen Law and removal of legal barriers to the deployment of fuel cells and hydrogen applications), H2Ports (Implementing Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Technologies in Ports) and Fuel cells and hydrogen market and policy Observatory. She is the Italian representative in IEA TCP Advanced Fuel Cell and Operating Agent of the Annex 33 Fuel Cell for Stationary Applications. 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 is the Chair of the European Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Piero Lunghi Conference.

Best Paper Award
MDPI
Awarded by Energies in 2023