Antonio has 20 years of experience in multidisciplinary research projects in renewable and clean energy technologies (solar, wind, biomass, hybrid), energy systems integration, biosystems engineering, energy use in agricultural engineering and food processing technologies. He holds a first degree in electric engineering and a PhD in process systems engineering from Imperial College London where he is affiliated as research fellow to the Department of Chemical Engineering, and he is associate professor of clean energy technologies at the Department of agro-environmental sciences of the University of Bari. Before joining the University, he co-founded an energy service company, joined Edison Energie Speciali as wind and biomass energy engineer and the strategic planning division of GSE. He worked as scientific expert and consultant for a number of public and private organisations, including the Italian Ministry of Research, and was vice-rector for energy policy of University of Bari in 2018-19. Antonio authored over 100 scientific papers and delivered speeches to several scientific conferences and workshops, and is member of IEA working group on energy storage, of ASME technical committee on clean fuels, delegate for energy in the Italian Sustainable Universities network. Since October 2020, he is programme manager at EIC for energy systems and green technologies.

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