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I am cur­rent­ly work­ing as Senior Researcher Asso­ciate at UCL Insti­tute for Sus­tain­able Resources  where I lead the finance research area of the GREEN-WIN project. I focus on cli­mate and sus­tain­abil­i­ty finance poli­cies and gov­er­nance arrange­ments in order to con­tribute to over­com­ing finan­cial bar­ri­ers to mit­i­ga­tion and adaptation.

Before join­ing UCL, I worked for the OECD (Green Growth Unit, Eco­nom­ics Depart­ment) as Marie-Curie Fel­low, a two-year research grant fund­ed by the Euro­pean Com­mis­sion. At the OECD I analysed the effec­tive­ness of ener­gy poli­cies to boost ener­gy invest­ments in Europe. Pri­or to that, I worked for research cen­ters (FEEM and ICCG) and insti­tu­tions, includ­ing the Ital­ian Asso­ci­a­tion Ener­gy Eco­nom­ics, where I was respon­si­ble for the Eco­nom­ic area (2009–2013).

Dur­ing my PhD, I was vis­it­ing schol­ar at the Renew­able and Appro­pri­ate Ener­gy Lab, UC Berke­ley under the super­vi­sion of Prof. Daniel Kam­men (2010–2011). I have worked on a range of nov­el ways to over­come the first-invest­ment costs of ener­gy effi­cien­cy and renew­able energy.

I got my PhD in Busi­ness Admin­is­tra­tion at Poly­tech­nic Uni­ver­si­ty of Marche and Uni­ver­si­ty of Cal­i­for­nia, Berke­ley (co-tutor­ship of doc­tor­al the­sis) with a focus on ener­gy financ­ing pol­i­cy. My research inter­ests include renew­able and ener­gy effi­cien­cy deploy­ment, cli­mate finance and ener­gy pol­i­cy.