Dr. Pierluigi Siano is a Professor and Scientific Director of the Smart Grids and Smart Cities Laboratory with the Department of Management and Innovation Systems, at the University of Salerno, Italy. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Salerno in 2006. Since 2021 he has been a Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Science, University of Johannesburg, South Africa. His research activities are centred on demand response, energy management, integration of distributed energy resources in smart grids, electricity markets, and planning and management of power systems. Prof. Siano has co-authored more than 680 articles, with 15,240 citations (Scopus), and was a Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher in Engineering in 2019, 2020, and 2021. He is Editor for the Power and Energy Society Section of IEEE Access and several other IEEE publications, and was previously Chair of the IES TC on Smart Grids.