Nives Della Valle works as Scientific Project Officer at the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission, where she conducts policy analysis and applies behavioural insights to energy-relevant issues, ranging from energy efficiency to energy poverty. Prior to joining the JRC, she was a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Renewable Energy – Eurac Research (Bolzano, Italy), and a Visiting Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods (Bonn, Germany). She also worked in a team tasked by the Italian Regulatory Authority for Electricity, Gas and Water to provide laboratory evidence on the effectiveness of different types of feedback on energy consumption behaviour. She holds a PhD in Economics and Management from the University of Trento (2017), specializing in Behavioural and Experimental Economics with a thesis on the interplay between social context and decision-making, with visiting experiences at the University of Copenhagen and Durham Business School.