Franco Cotana
- Since July 2023 he has been Chief Executive Officer of RSE S.p.A.,a joint-stock company wholly owned by the Ministry of Economy and Finance through the GSE S.p.A. corporate group engaged in analysis, study and research applied to the entire energy sector, with over 250 researchers in the Milan, Piacenza and Rome offices. For this position he is currently onleave from the University of Perugia pursuant to Art. 7 of Law 2040/1O, where he has been Full Professor of lndustrial Technical Physics at the Department of Engineering of Perugia since 2001.
- Director and Founder in 2003 of the CRB - National Biomass Research Center, established by the Ministry of the Environment at the University of Perugia; former Coordinator of the tnternational and Industriai PhD in "Energy and Sustainable Development" of the CRB at the University of Perugia.
- Project evaluator at the Ministry of University and Research.
- In collaboration with the Ministry of the Environment and Energy Security and ENEA, coordinator of the Working Groups that make up the National Platform for Sustainable Nuclear Power (PNNS, established by Ministerial Decree of 16 November 2023).
- Representative of Education and Merit in the Management Committee of the National Strategy for Biodiversity to 2030 (from November 2023).
- Member since 2019 of the coordination committee of the National Strategy on the Bioeconomy at the Presidency of the Council of Ministers (appointment renewed June 2023), former member of the Scientific Committee of the G20 Environment 2021 under the ltalian Presidency.
- Member of the Scientific Committee of the Edmund Mach Foundation, a non-profit public interest body.
- Holder of 25 patents in the fields of active noise control, hydrogen, fuel cells, biomass, innovative transport, climate change mitigation and biomaterials.
- Author of aver 350 scientific publications, 285 of which in international journals in the field of Energy, Energy Efficiency, Energy Planning, Environment, Biofuels and Biomass, Hydrogen, Noise Pollution, Advanced Materials, Energy and Well-being in Buildings, Electric and Innovative Transport Systems, LCA.
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