Author: Silvano Vergura

Manuel Pérez-Donsión is is Full Professor of the Electrical Engineering Department of Vigo University, Spain, and Chairman of the International Steering Committee of the International Conference on Renewable Energy and Power Quality. He is also President of the European Association for the Development of Renewable Energies, Environment and Power Quality, and the Spanish Association for the Development of Electrical Engineering, and Vice-President of the Portuguese Association for the Development of Electrical Engineering. He is the recipient of the Gold Emblem of the “Galicia Green Week Foundation” (in 1998) and the Gold Medal of the Escuela de Enxeñería Industrial of Vigo University (in 2012). He has authored six books and more than one hundred research papers, a number of which were published in various international journals.Silvano Vergura is currently Aggregate Professor at Politecnico di Bari, Italy, teaching Electrotechnics. His research interests concern the monitoring of renewable energy sources, devoting particular attention to the energy performance analysis of photovoltaic plants, nonlinear systems, and smart cities. He is currently in charge of a pilot-project for a smart city, organised by the Minister of Education, University and Research, and has served as a member of the International Program Committee for several international conferences and symposia. He has also authored and co-authored over 70 international publications.Gianpaolo Vitale is a Senior Researcher of the Institute on Intelligent Systems for Automation of the National Research Council of Italy, and became Adjunct Professor of Power Electronics in 2013. He is Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and has published two books and over one hundred scientific articles, and his research interests concern power electronics, power generation from renewable sources, and the problems of electromagnetic compatibility.