Antonello Monti is currently the Director of the Institute for Automation of Complex Power Systems at the E.ON Energy Research Center at RWTH Aachen University and Scientist at Fraunhofer FIT as part of the Center for Digital Energy in Aachen. He has previously held positions at Politecnico di Milano, Italy, and at the University of South Carolina, USA. Antonello has been and is Associate Editor of several international journals edited by IEEE, Elsevier, and Springer. He has been the recipient of the 2017 IEEE Innovation in Societal Infrastructure Award.