**About the Editor**

#### **Paola Clerici Maestosi**

Paola Clerici Maestosi Dr., Ph.D., has been a senior scientist at ENEA Energy Technologies and Renewables Department, Smart Urban Division, since 2010. She was a practitioner from 1994 to 2000 at University of Tor Vergata, Real Estate Technical Unit, where she managed the complexity of construction and in-exercise activities at building and district levels. Due to this extensive experience and her PhD, she taught Building and Real Estate Management in Sapienza, Faculty of Architecture in Rome, from 2000 to 2007. In 2003, she supported Rome Municipality, Metropolitan Projects Department in activities related to district dimensions. From 2010 till now she worked at ENEA as a researcher in the area of Smart Cities and Positive Energy District, providing expertise in the development of smart and sustainable cities and energy communities, energy shift, energy landscape design and energy potential mapping.

For well-known attitude in managing technical complexity, multi and transdisciplinary cooperation and multi-actors involvement she is the ENEA TERIN SEN delegate in EERA Joint Program on Smart Cities (since 2010), then national delegate in Joint Programming Initiative Urban Europe since 2012 (vice-chair from 2017), national referent for EERA IWG SET Plan Action 3.2 and, last but not least, National Scientific Expert (MUR Ministry of University and Research) for DUT Driving Urban Transition Partnership (2020). In the framework of EERA Joint Program on Smart Cities she supports the creation of the EERA Joint Program on Smart Cities Special Issues Series.

EERA Special Issues Series already published:

1- 2018: European Pathways for the Smart Cities to come

2- 2019: Tools, technologies and systems integration for the Smart and Sustainable Cities to come

3- 2020: Smart Cities and Positive Energy Districts: Urban Perspectives in 2020

Actually, call for papers for 5th special issue Smart Cities and Positive Energy Districts: Urban Perspectives in 2022 has been already open and it will close mid October 2022. The EERA JPSC Special Issues Series is an EERA JPSC asset.
