Strengthening of the Italian Research Infrastructure for Metrology and Open Access Data in support to the Agrifood
National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA)
ENEA is the National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development, a public body aimed at research, technological innovation and the provision of advanced services to enterprises, public administration and citizens in the sectors of energy, the environment and sustainable economic development.
ENEA has highly qualified personnel, advanced laboratories, experimental facilities and excellent instruments for the realisation of projects, studies, tests, assessments, analyses and training services, with particular reference to product and process innovation and the valorisation of results to contribute to the development and competitiveness of the national economic system. Since its foundation in the 1960s, its strengths have been applied research, technology transfer and technical-scientific support to companies, associations, territories, central and local administrations. Its focus sectors are energy technologies, nuclear fusion and nuclear safety, energy efficiency, technologies for cultural heritage, seismic protection, food safety, pollution, life sciences, strategic raw materials, climate change. Among the emerging issues, ENEA supports the productive system as well as public authorities in the transition towards the circular economy and the resource efficiency.
Claudia Zoani
is Researcher at the ENEA Biotechnology and Agroindustry Division. Graduated in Chemistry with a PhD in Analytical Chemistry, she concluded the courses & research activities of a second PhD in Agriculture, Food and Environment. Specialist on atomic spectroscopic and mass spectrometry techniques and Metrology, she conducts R&D activities on Reference Materials and Methods; food quality, safety and traceability; sustainability of agrifood systems; chemical risk assessment. She is scientific secretary of IMEKO TC23 Metrology in Food and Nutrition, Member of the Eurachem WG on Reference Materials and UNI Committee General Metrology. She is one of the 10 Italian experts on Circular Economy selected by the Italian Ministry for the Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MAECI) for the participation to the Comité des Dix-Italie - Sommet des Deux Rives initiative. Awarded with the Premio Leonardo UGIS for “research and its communication” on 2014. She is engaged as Principal Investigator for ENEA in several national and European ongoing projects, such as the HEu AgroServ and DGR4Food, the H2020 FNS-Cloud, iNEXT-Discovery and FoodSafety4EU and the ERANET SUSFOOD CORE ORGANIC “PROVIDE”. She is the Coordinator of the Research Infrastructure METROFOOD-RI (ESFRI Roadmap – dominio Health ad Food).