Biography
Marzia Sesini is the Research Team Leader – Molecules & Materials at the Florence School of Regulation (FSR), where she leads research and executive training activities on the decarbonisation of the energy system, with a particular focus on clean molecules, industrial transition, energy security, and critical raw materials.
She is Director of the Loyola Autumn Research School (LARS) and of the EU Gas Network Codes course. She also leads and contributes to European research and policy initiatives, including projects funded under Horizon Europe and the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Networks framworks.
Her work examines how energy systems, infrastructures, and supply chains evolve under decarbonisation pressures and geopolitical uncertainty. Her research focuses in particular on security of supply, renewable and low-carbon gases, critical raw materials, infrastructure coordination, market design, and the governance of industrial transformation pathways.
An engineer by training, Marzia has extensive experience across academia, policy, and industry. Prior to joining FSR, she worked at the Chaire Économie du Climat at Université Paris-Dauphine and the Institut Europlace de Finance, Snam’s Corporate Strategy Department, Bocconi University, and the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies (OIES).
She holds a Ph.D. in Process Systems Engineering from the Chemical Engineering Department at Imperial College London, where her research explored the economic and political implications of coordinated natural gas storage policies in the European Union under supply and demand shocks. She also holds an M.S. in Sustainability Management from Columbia University and an M.S. in Engineering from the University of Pavia.