Doctor Filomena La Porta

Lead technologist – Energy Generation and Supply

Filomena joined the Technology Strategy Board in August 2007 as Lead Technologist for the Energy Generation and Supply Area. 

The Technology Strategy Board is a business driven organisation that promotes and invests in technological innovation. Within the Technology Strategy Board she is mainly responsible for developing and implementing strategies and priorities in her area of responsibility, by working closely with business, Government Departments and other funding organisations.

Filomena has a Laurea in Physics from Pisa University and a PhD at Loughborough University.

Before joining the Technology Strategy Board, Filomena worked for over five years at the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council in several roles, including Senior Sector Manager for the Power Sector and as Climate Change and Energy Efficiency Portfolio Manager. In these roles, she worked closely with several organisations such as the Carbon Trust and the UK Climate Impact Programme. She also spent three months on secondment to the UK Trade and Investment.

Filomena has also worked for Corus, as researcher developing optical inspection techniques and as project manager for R&D capital investment.