Session's Speakers
Luigi Crema
Luigi Crema is the director of the Center for Sustainable Energy at Fondazione Bruno Kessler, in Trento. A physicist, he deals with issues connected with energy transition and the development of technology solutions for hydrogen and batteries, the two main pillars of the Center with more than 80 people: researchers, innovators, and technicians. He is involved in 2 IPCEI projects, on batteries in EuBatIn and on hydrogen technologies in Hy2Tech, with the ongoing realization of a technology infrastructure of industrial relevance in Rovereto, in the Hydrogen Pole of the Province of Trento.
He is President of Hydrogen Europe Research giving support to the realization and implementation of the programme of the Clean Hydrogen Partnership as a member of the Governing Board together with European Commission and Hydrogen Europe industry.
He is the vice presidentof the Italian Hydrogen Association, supporting the role of hydrogen at the national scale and through the engagement of national institutions.
Among other roles, he is a founder and a member of the National Academy of Engineering and Technology and involved in the BEPA, the European Battery Partnership.
For over twenty years, he has been involved in innovation between research and the industrial sector. He supported the creation and growth of Start-up such as Green Energy Storage and Unitec. He was involved in more than 50 project initiatives on the energy sector and in about 100 scientific papers.