Antonio marco Pantaleo

He has twenty years of experience in multidisciplinary research on renewable and clean energy technologies (solar, wind, biomass, and hybrid), energy systems integration, biosystems engineering, energy use in agricultural sector and food processing.

He holds a first degree in electric engineering from Politecnico of Bari and a PhD in process systems engineering from Imperial College London, where he is affiliated as research fellow to the Clean Energy Processes Lab (CEP) and Centre for Process Systems Engineering (CPSE) of the Department of Chemical Engineering. He is an associate professor of clean energy technologies at the Department of Agro-environmental Sciences of the University of Bari.

Before becoming professor, he co-founded an energy service company, joined Edison Energie Speciali and the strategic planning division of GSE (Gestore dei Servizi Energetici). He also worked as scientific expert and consultant for public and private organisations, including the Italian Ministry of Research, and was vice-Rector for energy policy of University of Bari.

Antonio authored over hundred scientific papers, and he is member of IEA working group on energy storage, ASME technical committee on clean fuels, and is delegate for energy at the Italian Sustainable Universities Network.

At the European Innovation Council, he is responsible for: the Pathfinder Challenges portfolio on Green Hydrogen generation (2021), mid to long duration energy storage (2022), CO2 and Nitrogen management and valorization (2022), clean cooling technologies (2023); for the transition challenge on systems integrated energy systems (2021), energy storage (2022); and for the accelerator challenge on Green Deal (2022), Fit for 55% (2022) and energy storage (2023).