Gianluca Lipari received his B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electronic engineering from the University of Reggio Calabria, Italy, in 2009, 2012 and 2016 respectively. Since 2015, he joined the Institute for Automation of Complex Power Systems, E.ON Energy Research Center, RWTH Aachen University, Germany, where he is currently postdoctoral research associate and team leader of the Electrical Flexibility Management and Optimization Team. Since November 2020 he is also senior scientist at the Fraunhofer FIT Center for Digital Energy in Aachen. His current research interests include cloud applications for cyber-physical systems monitoring and automation, with special focus on cybersecurity and communications, and synchronized measurement systems for electric distribution grids.

Dr. Lipari has been involved in several European and German research projects and, at the moment, is Technical Manager of the Horizon 2020 edgeFLEX project and, since May 2022 coordinates the Horizon Europe IntNET project.