Maria Padovan is a business historian specializing in energy and European integration. She is invited assistant professor in economic and business history at the Lisbon School of Economics and Management (ISEG) at University of Lisbon. She is also the Scientific Secretary of the Committee for the History of Electricity and Energy (CHEE) and associate editor of the Journal of Energy History/Revue d’histoire de l’énergie (JEHRHE). She holds a double Ph.D. in History at the University of Rome Tor Vergata and Université Paris Cité, where she was also affiliated with the Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire des Énergies de Demain (LIED, UMR 8236).