Erminia Leonardi is a senior researcher in the Bioengineering group at CRS4. She holds a Chemistry degree (1991) at the University of Sassari, and a Ph.D degree (1996) in Physical Chemistry at the University of Siena. Prior to joining CRS4, she conducted research in the field of quantum chemistry, by using appropriate theory and mathematical tools to study vibronic structures of small molecules of environmental interest. This activity was conducted at the Departments of Chemistry of the University of Pisa and Wuppertal (Germany). Her research interest at CRS4 included modeling and simulations to solve problems related to groundwater pollution (RaCoS project), solar desalination (Lebanon project), interaction of nuclear fission fragments with hydrogen in nuclear space engine (Rubbia’s P242 project), multicomponent diffusion within zeolites for water cleaning (Eni), thermodiffusion and concentrating solar power systems, solar tower technologies (EU-STAGE STE). She has papers in the major international refereed journals, as Int. J. of Heat and Mass Transfer, Solar Energy, J. Chem. Phys., J. Phys. Chem, Mol. Phys., Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. and two patents: “Heat extraction process from the solar pond” (1999), “Method and device for controlling a solar energy system of the type to focus on more towers with heliostats” (2013).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4146,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"gruppo":[124],"class_list":["post-10255","people","type-people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","gruppo-high-performance-and-quantum-computing-biosciences-and-advanced-studies"],"acf":{"name":"Erminia","surname":"Leonardi","email":"ermy@crs4.it","phone":"","user_uuid":"e3c423ca-99fc-1032-95fe-0030485a3848","personal_page":"","google_scholar_id":"","position":"Researcher","microsoft_academic_id":"","project_coordinator":[{"ID":19621,"post_author":"4","post_date":"2025-07-03 18:21:41","post_date_gmt":"2025-07-03 16:21:41","post_content":"Concentrating Solar Thermal Energy encompasses Solar Thermal Electricity (STE), Solar Fuels, Solar Process Heat and Solar Desalination that are called to play a major role in attaining energy sustainability in our modern societies due to their unique features: 1) Solar energy offers the highest renewable energy potential to our planet; 2) STE can provide dispatchable power in a technically and economically viable way, by means of thermal energy storage and\/or hybridization, e.g. with biomass. However, significant research efforts are needed to achieve this goal. This Integrated Research Programme (IRP) engages all major European research institutes, with relevant and recognized activities on STE and related technologies, in an integrated research structure to successfully accomplish the following general objectives: a) Convert the consortium into a reference institution for concentrating solar energy research in Europe, creating a new entity with effective governance structure; b) Enhance the cooperation between EU research institutions participating in the IRP to create EU added value; c) Synchronize the different national research programs to avoid duplication and to achieve better and faster results; d) Accelerate the transfer of knowledge to industry in order to maintain and strengthen the existing European industrial leadership in STE; e) Expand joint activities among research centres by offering researchers and industry a comprehensive portfolio of research capabilities, bringing added value to innovation and industry-driven technology; f) Establish the European reference association for promoting and coordinating international cooperation in concentrating solar energy research. To that end, this IRP promotes Coordination and Support Actions (CSA) and, in parallel, performs Coordinated Projects (CP) covering the full spectrum of current concentrating solar energy research topics, selected to provide the highest EU added value and filling the gaps among national programs.","post_title":"STAGE-STE","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"stage-ste","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2026-04-02 12:35:28","post_modified_gmt":"2026-04-02 10:35:28","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.crs4.it\/projects\/stage-ste\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"projects","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":19707,"post_author":"4","post_date":"2025-07-03 18:24:25","post_date_gmt":"2025-07-03 16:24:25","post_content":"Molecular studies of selectivity of contaminants in mixtures in the treatment of water contaminated with zeolites.","post_title":"CFR ZEO 2","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cfr-zeo-2","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2026-04-02 12:37:51","post_modified_gmt":"2026-04-02 10:37:51","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.crs4.it\/projects\/cfr-zeo-2\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"projects","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"team_members":[{"ID":14983,"post_author":"4","post_date":"2025-07-03 18:19:50","post_date_gmt":"2025-07-03 16:19:50","post_content":"The IPOACUSIA project aims to study and develop methods and technologies for the dissemination of Italian sign language interpreting and remote video interpreting services as well as the use of any other technology aimed at breaking down barriers to communication. The first objective is to develop a prototype network (cloud) application on which to carry out experimentation with appropriate text-to-speech and speech-to-text paradigms designed to improve communication between able-bodied people and people with hearing loss. A second goal is to develop a prototype cloud application capable of handling LIS-to-text services. One of the critical issues being addressed stems from the need to take advantage of significant computing resources for real-time management of machine learning models. In this area, the best high-performance computing architectures present at CRS4 will be tested as well as state-of-the-art options present on the cloud services market (e.g., Amazon, Google, IBM, Microsoft) will be evaluated. The operational objective of the project aims at the timely management of the various stages of the operational pipeline leading from the acquisition of the sequence of video images, to their image processing, to their simplification into a computational model useful for the automatic understanding of the gesture itself in a format suitable to be interpreted by appropriate artificial neural networks in text format. \u00a0It is planned to update services developed on the basis of user feedback (LivingLab). A focus group will be created to support the development team for this purpose.","post_title":"IPOACUSIA","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ipoacusia","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2026-04-02 12:33:43","post_modified_gmt":"2026-04-02 10:33:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.crs4.it\/projects\/ipoacusia\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"projects","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":19776,"post_author":"4","post_date":"2025-07-03 18:26:55","post_date_gmt":"2025-07-03 16:26:55","post_content":"The RaCoS project will couple field investigation, theoretical research, and mathematical modeling in order to develop a comprehensive methodology for the study of nuclear waste contamination and remediation. Mathematical models that describe groundwater flow and reactive transport will be used to help predict the migration and fate of contaminants and to evaluate the effectiveness of pollutant containment and aquifer\/soil restoration measures. Existing numerical codes for the simulation of groundwater flow and transport will be elaborated and enhanced to include consideration of the specific chemical and physical processes relevant to the two sites, and to more general problems of radionuclide contamination of groundwater. The models will be integrated into an easy-to-use information management framework that will include the site data and other analysis tools such as geographic information systems. The models will be tested and calibrated on the basis of available field and laboratory data, and they will be applied to the Lake Karachai (South Ural) and Chernobyl sites located in Russia to perform the contaminant prediction and groundwater quality and remediation studies.","post_title":"RaCoS","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"racos","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2026-04-02 12:39:30","post_modified_gmt":"2026-04-02 10:39:30","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.crs4.it\/projects\/racos\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"projects","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}]},"yoast_head":"\n