Emanuele Francesco Pecora
Liftoff Enabling Programs Manager
Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (U.S. DOE)
Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (U.S. DOE)
Emanuele Francesco Pecora works in the Strategy and Program Development Office within the Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED) at DOE. In his role Emanuele designs, develops, and execute a portfolio of Liftoff Enabling Programs, i.e. demonstration and commercialization programs for clean energy technologies, with a specific focus on small businesses. Emanuele also supported the development and execution of the Qualifying Advanced Energy Project Credit (48C tax credit) program.
Before joining OCED, Emanuele was a Technology Manager at the DOE Solar Energy Technologies Office where he worked on funding opportunities for for-profit entities (especially small businesses and start-ups) creating and commercializing new innovation in the solar space. He was also the Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer (SBIR-STTR) office portfolio manager.
Emanuele holds a Ph.D. in physics (University of Catania, Italy, 2010) and he was a PostDoc in materials science at Stanford University (2013-2016) and Boston University (2011-2013). Emanuele is a TEDx licensee, Vice President of his Alma Mater Alumni Association, and was communication facilitator at the StartX accelerator in Palo Alto, CA.