Caterina Sarno is an Associate R&I Project Manager at Engineering Ingegneria Informatica S.p.A., specializing in the management of European and national research projects. Her work focuses on the energy and water sectors, including digital transformation, sustainability, and innovative solutions. She is a Chemical Engineer for Sustainable Development with a PhD in Materials for Health, Environment and Energy. She has been working as a researcher at the R&I Laboratory since 2018, contributing to both management and technical activities in several research projects, such as ENERSHARE (HORIZON-CL5-2021-D3-01-01), DigiBUILD (HORIZON-CL5-2021-D4-01-03), and e-SAFE (LC-SC3-EE-1-2018-2019-2020 ). She is currently involved in the IDEATION project (HORIZON-MISS-2023-OCEAN-01-09), contributing to the definition of the Reference Architecture for Digital Twins for inland waters. Her interests include project exploitation strategies, circular economy, and proposals development.