Research Associate
Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies
Contact info
[email protected]
[+39] 055 4685 868
Office
Villa Schifanoia - Casale, CA018
Working languages
Italian, English
Marzia Sesini is a Research Associate in the Natural Gas Area at the Florence School of Regulation (FSR). Her research interests span from energy security and security of supply to the decarbonisation of the energy system, renewable gas and technologies for the energy sector, to cross infrastructure integration and distribution network optimisation modeling. Prior to joining the FSR, she has been a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Chaire Economie du Climat (Université Paris-Dauphine; Institut Europlace de Finance - Paris) investigating policy-supporting mechanisms to create a market driver for renewable gases (i.e., biogas and biomethane) and to back the decarbonisation of the EU natural gas grid. An engineer by training, she has accrued experience (+8 years) in the energy industry both at the corporate and academic level. She has worked in Snam’s Corporate Strategy Department as a Gas Advocacy Specialist, dealing with issues relating to the decarbonisation of the gas network at the European and the Italian level, as well as at Bocconi University as an Academic Fellow in the Department of Management and Technology on topics related to energy, the environment and international corporate strategy. Also, she has been a Doctoral Visiting Fellow for 5 years at the Oxford Institute of Energy Studies (OIES). She holds a Ph.D. in Process Systems Engineering | Chemical Engineering Department from Imperial College London, with research investigating the costs and political implications of shared and coordinated natural gas storage services within the European Union in case of supply/demand shocks; as well as a M.S. in Sustainability Management from the Earth Institute of Columbia University in NYC and a M.S. in Engineering from Pavia State University.