GIUSEPPE GRABER received his M.Sc. degree in Electronic Engineering and Ph.D. in Information Engineering from the University of Salerno, Italy, in 2011 and 2016, respectively. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor for the Department of Industrial Engineering, at the same University. His main research interests focus on the impact assessment of electric vehicles' charging demand and storage systems in smart grids and innovative solutions for increasing energy efficiency in railway systems.
VITO CALDERARO received his M.Sc. degree in Electronic Engineering and Ph.D. in Information Engineering from the University of Salerno, Italy, in 2001 and 2006, respectively. He is an Associate Professor at the Department of Industrial Engineering. His current research focuses on the integration of distributed generation and storage systems in electrical distribution networks, soft computing methodologies in power system applications, and complex system protection and diagnosis.
VINCENZO GALDI (SM’17) received his M.Sc. degree (summa cum laude) in Electronic Engineering from the University of Salerno in 1994 and Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Naples in 1999. Currently, he is a Full Professor of Power Systems at the University of Salerno as well as the President of the TRAIN Consortium and a member of the Board of Directors of the ENSIEL Consortium. In addition, he serves as the scientific coordinator for research activities with leading national stakeholders in the energy and electrified transport sectors, focusing on power system decarbonization. His research interests include power systems, smart grids, renewable energy integration, storage systems, intelligent transportation systems (ITSs), energy efficiency, and decarbonization.
LUCIO IPPOLITO received his M.Sc. degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Salerno, Italy, in 1992, and Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Napoli, Italy, in 1997. Since 2001, he has been an Associate Professor at the University of Salerno. He has a long-standing interest in renewable energy and he is currently focused on smart grids, energy efficiency, and green hydrogen technologies.
Fabrizio De Caro received B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Energy Engineering and a Ph.D. degree in Information Technologies Engineering from the University of Sannio (UniSannio), Benevento, Italy, in 2014, 2016, and 2020, respectively. He is a Postdoc Researcher at the Power S.I.S.T.E.M.I. lab in the Industrial Engineering Department of UniSa. His research interests include effective renewable energy sources' integration in smart grids, wind power forecasting, artificial intelligence in power systems, decision-making tools in the presence of uncertainty, electricity markets, and the resilience of power systems. He is an Associate Editor of "Technology and Economics of Smart Grids and Sustainable Energies".
ALFREDO VACCARO received his M.Sc. (Hons.) degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Salerno, Italy, and Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo,Waterloo, ON, Canada. From 1999 to 2002, he was an Assistant Researcher in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Salerno. From March 2002 to October 2015, he was an Assistant Professor of electric power systems for the Department of Engineering, University of Sannio, Benevento, Italy, where he is currently a Full Professor of electrical power systems. His research interests include soft computing and interval-based methods applied to power system analysis, alongside self-organizing paradigms for smart grid computing. He is an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Power Systems and IEEE Transactions on Smart Grids, and the Chair of the Power System Operation, Planning and Economics Committee - Technologies and Innovations (T&I) SC.
