Dr. Rosaria Volpe is Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) of Thermal Engineering and Industrial Energy Systems at the University of Catania. She was Visiting Researcher at the University of the Basque Country–Biorefinery Processes (BIORP) in 2020 and at the Tokyo Yokohama University in 2023. She is recipient of research and best paper awards. She is the awardee of a starting grant for the ENACT project focusing on energy and exergy modeling of renewable energy communities. She is Principal Investigator of several national and European projects. She is Subtask C leader of the IEA EBC Annex 83 "Positive Energy Districts". Her current research interests are the development of energy models for the design and operation of Renewable Energy Communities and Positive Energy Districts, agent-based modeling and optimization, thermodynamics and heat transfer, computational fluid dynamics, carbon capture and storage, and energy management.