Dr. Rudolf F. Paternost was born in Campinas, SP, Brazil, and obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of São Paulo, Brazil (2017), followed by a master’s degree in the same field from the State University of Campinas, Brazil (2019). In July 2024, he completed a Ph.D. degree in Automotive Engineering for Intelligent Mobility from the Department of Electrical, Electronic, and Information Engineering at the University of Bologna, Italy. During this period, he was also involved as a teaching assistant for engineering courses and, from May to September 2023, was a visiting Ph.D. researcher at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), Netherlands. His research centers on proposing solutions to modernize the electrical infrastructure of catenary-powered transportation systems, preparing them to integrate emerging technologies such as in-motion-charging vehicles, energy storage systems, and electric vehicle chargers, which are expected to become prevalent in the future.

Riccardo Mandrioli (Member, IEEE) was born in Pavullo nel Frignano (MO), Italy, in 1995. He received a M.Sc. degree (cum laude) in Electrical Engineering in Oct. 2019, and a Ph.D. degree (Hons.) in Biomedical, Electrical, and System Engineering in Mar. 2023 from the Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy. Currently, he is a Tenure Track Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical, Electronic, and Information Engineering, Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna. In 2022, he was a visiting scientist with the chair of Power Electronics, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany. In Nov. 2023, he received the National Scientific Habilitation for the permanent position of Associate Professor in Electrical Engineering. His research interests include electric vehicle chargers, photovoltaic, power electronic converters, harmonic pollution, efficiency improvement, and circuit modeling.

Vincenzo Cirimele (Senior Member, IEEE) received a M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering (summa cum laude) from the Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy, in 2013, a Ph.D. degree in Electronics ngineering (with Hons.) from the Politecnico di Torino, and a second Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Université Paris-Saclay, Paris, France, in 2017. From 2017 to 2020, he was an assistant professor with the Department of Energy, Politecnico di Torino. He is currently an associate professor with the Department of Electrical, Electronic, and Information Engineering, Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy. From 2020 to 2021, he was a technical responsible for the R&D and Innovation Group of the Company Movyon s.p.a. of Autostrade per l'Italia Group, where he supervised projects related to energy sustainability and development of highway electric mobility. His research interests mainly include technologies for electric mobility, inductive power transmission, electromagnetic modeling and simulation, and power electronics.

Mattia Ricco (Senior Member, IEEE) received a Master’s degree (cum laude) in Electronic Engineering from the University of Salerno, Fisciano, Italy, in 2011, and double Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Information Engineering from the University of Cergy-Pontoise, Cergy-Pontoise, France, and the University of Salerno, in 2015. From 2015 to 2018, he was a postdoctoral research fellow with the Department of Energy Technology, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark. From 2018 to 2021, he was a senior assistant professor (tenure track) and has been an associate professor with the Department of Electrical, Electronic, and Information Engineering, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy, since 2021. His research interests include modular multilevel converters, battery management systems, electric vehicle chargers, field-programmable gate array-based controllers, identification algorithms for power electronics, and photovoltaic systems.

Gabriele Grandi (Senior Member, IEEE) received M.Sc. (cum laude) and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy, in 1990 and 1994, respectively. He has been with the Department of Electrical, Electronic, and Information Engineering, University of Bologna, as a research associate since 1995, an associate professor since 2005, and a full professor since 2016, in electrical engineering. He is the founder and the leader of the research Laboratory "SolarTronic-Lab" with the University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy, dealing with power electronic circuits, multiphase and multilevel converters, photovoltaic, electric vehicle chargers, and circuit modeling. He has authored or coauthored more than 180 papers published in conference proceedings and international journals, mainly with IEEE.