Gianluca Lipari obtained his Ph.D. degree in electronic engineering from the University of Reggio Calabria, Italy, in 2015. Subsequently he joined RWTH Aachen University in Germany, as postdoctoral research associate and served as senior scientist at the Fraunhofer FIT Center for Digital Energy in Aachen. Since October 2022 he has been Technical Leader and European projects coordinator at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) Europe. His research activities focus on the digitalization of the energy system, including cloud applications for cyber-physical systems monitoring and automation, data driven approaches for electricity grids management and operation, distributed generation and electrical storage integration. Currently he is involved in the Horizon Europe int:net project for the creation of a European interoperability network for the energy transition, leading the development of interoperability maturity assessment tools. Dr. Lipari is the coordinator of the Horizon Europe project AGISTIN, for the advanced integration of renewables and storage solutions in industrial processes.