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Prof. Marialaura Di Somma received the Ph.D degree in Mechanical Systems Engineering from the University of Naples Federico II (Italy), in 2016. In 2014, she held position as visiting research assistant at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Connecticut in the US, whereas from 2015 to 2023, she has served as Research Scientist and Project Manager at the Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA) in Italy. In this context, she has managed and coordinated several European and National projects on the topic of multi-carrier energy systems optimization and control, and she covered representative roles within the European Energy Research Alliance – Joint Programme on Smart Grids and within Mission Innovation, Innovation Challenge 1 on Smart Grids. Moreover, she has been the Project Coordinator of the Horizon2020 project eNeuron on the optimization of local integrated energy communities and the vice Project Coordinator of the Horizon2020 project INTERPLAN on operation planning of the integrated grid.
From December 2023, she is Associate Professor in the area of Applied Thermodynamics at the Department of Industrial Engineering of the University of Naples Federico II (Italy). Her main research interests mainly focus on design and operation optimization of distributed energy resources in the context of local multi-carrier energy systems also including energy communities through multi-objective approach. She is involved in EERA JP Energy Systems Integration in representance of UNINA.
Editor of three books on the topic of integrated energy systems published by Elsevier and Wiley, and chair in scientific international conferences, she is author of more than 80 scientific contributions, most of them published in international journals and proceedings of international conferences and awarded as highly-cited papers.