Albana Kona
Researcher
Joint Research Centre
Italy

Biography
Researcher at the European Commission – Joint Research Centre (JRC) in Ispra (Italy) since 2013 working on the Covenant of Mayors (CoM) initiative. Her research activities include assessment of the Sustainable Energy Actions Plans of cities; descriptive statistics for robust assessment of the CoM initiative; developing performance indicators of energy sustainability in cities. Within her Ph.D. studies, from Politecnico di Torino (Italy), she proposed a methodology for multiobjective optimizations of urban energy systems based on probabilistic procedure. She has authored and co-authored more than 10 papers on urban energy systems and on CoM initiative.