Prof. Pierluigi Siano

University of Salerno, Italy

Brief introduction

Pierluigi Siano (Senior Member, IEEE) received the M.Sc. degree in electronic engineering and the Ph.D. degree in information and electrical engineering from the University of Salerno, Salerno, Italy, in 2001 and 2006, respectively. Since 2021, he has been a Distinguished Visiting Professor with the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Science, University of Johannesburg. He is currently a Professor and the Scientific Director of the Smart Grids and Smart Cities Laboratory, Department of Management and Innovation Systems, University of Salerno. His research interests include demand response, energy management, the integration of distributed energy resources in smart grids, and electricity markets, and the planning and management of power systems. In these research fields, he has co-authored more than 700 articles, including more than 410 international journals that received in Scopus more than 17900 citations with an H-index equal to 64. From 2019 to 2022, he was awarded as a Highly Cited Researcher in Engineering by the Web of Science Group. He has been the Chair of the IES TC on Smart Grids. He is an Editor of the Power and Energy Society Section of IEEE Access, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, and IEEE Systems Journal.