Umberto Pasqual Laverdura

Umberto Pasqual Laverdura, PhD, is Junior Researcher at ENEA, the Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development, at the Energy Technologies and Renewable Sources Department. Now, his main research topics are R&D on Sorption Enhanced Processes (SEP) with focus on Sorption Enhanced Gasification, Catalysis for CO₂ valorization and Dry Reforming, CO₂ accelerated mineralization on industrial waste, CCUS system integration in HtA industries, and chemical plasma exploitation in eFuels production.

He works in different European and national projects as: “Gasification Integrated with CO₂ capture and storage - GICO Project WP2-3-4-5” and Marie-Curie Rise Project “Chemistry of Platinum Group Metals- CHemPGM”, and the PNRR project “ECCSELLENT - Development of ECCSEL - R.I. Italian facilities: user access, services and long-term sustainability” and “Production of green H₂ from biomass gasification using efficient CO₂ capture, storage and reuse processes” in the frame of the National Project PTR-2022-2024 “Energy efficiency of industrial products and processes”. He is ENEA representative in the Joint Program on CCS of the European Energy Research Alliance.