Enea advances with research and its female researchers. Marialaura of Somma – specializing in energy sources of the future and rising star of the public research center – he is among the 40 most influential Italian talents under 40 selected by Fortune Italia magazine, the Italian edition of the famous American magazine.
The magazine, with a focus on economics and finance, celebrates ingenuity and perseverance through the history of entrepreneurs and businesses, to be taken as a model. In this case, these are talented profiles who have distinguished themselves in 4 categories: managers, startuppers, influencers and researchers.
Researchers are the heart for the development of our country, they are the present and the future of a sector, but in recent years the "brain drain" has made itself more and more felt. For this reason, the stories of these young talents, especially in the delicate moment we are experiencing, can represent an important example, but above all encourage more people to invest in our country.
This is the case of Marialaura Di Somma, the Enea researcher who stood out in the research category for her career focused on the energy of the future.
After earning his doctorate in engineering at the Federico II University of Naples, and a part done at the University of Connecticut in the USA, he arrives in 2014 at the Smart Grid and Energy Networks laboratory of the ENEA Center in Portici (Naples), dealing with analysis, research and development, technologies, methodologies, distributed cogeneration and energy storage.
He currently coordinates the 6 million euro European project eNeuron, for the development of innovative tools for the management of energy communities. Furthermore, he is also responsible for the AmBIENCe scientific project for the flexibility of energy performance contracts for buildings, all with a large number of top-level entrepreneurial and scientific collaborators.
An example not only for the country, but above all for women who are still under-represented today in the study of Stems (science, technology, engineering and mathematics). Despite significant progress in recent decades, gender inequality in this area is still widespread.
