People

	Vincenzo Trovato (UniTn) is the principal investigator of the project. He is an Assistant Professor at University of Trento, Italy and an Honorary Research Fellow at Imperial College London, UK. Previously he was Policy Officer at EU ACER, Research Engineer at EDF Energy R&D U.K. Centre and Research Associate at Imperial College London where he obtained the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering. He also owns a M.Sc. Degree in Electrical Engineering from Politecnico di Torino, Italy and a B.Sc. Degree in Electrical Engineering from Politecnico di Bari, Italy. His current research is focused on modeling and optimization of economic and security performance of energy system operation and investment, including analysis of future energy markets to support cost-effective transition to smart low carbon energy future.
	Pietro Colella (PoliTo) is the coordinator of PoliTo for the project. He received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy, in 2012 and 2016, respectively. He is currently an Assistant Professor with the Politecnico di Torino. His research interest includes power systems, electrical market, traction electrification systems, and electrical safety. Dr. Colella is a Member of AEIT—Associazione Italiana di Elettrotecnica, Elettronica, Automazione, Informatica e Telecomunicazioni. He is a registered Professional Engineer in Italy.
	Gianfranco Chicco (PoliTo) received the Ph.D. degree in electrotechnics engineering from Politecnico di Torino (POLITO), Torino, Italy. He received the title of Doctor Honoris Causa from the Universities Politehnica of Bucharest and “Gheorghe Asachi” of Iasi (Romania) in 2017 and 2018, respectively. He is currently a Full Professor of electrical energy systems with POLITO. He is the Chair of the IEEE R8 Italy Section. He is the Scientific Responsible of the Research Group on Power and Energy Systems, POLITO, and the Responsible of the Torino unit of the Italian Consortium ENSIEL. His research interests include power system analysis, distribution system analysis and optimization, electrical load management, energy efficiency and environmental impact of multienergy systems, data analytics applied to power and energy systems, and power quality. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Sustainable Energy Grids and Networks.
	Alessandro Prada (UniTn) is an Associate Professor of Technical Physics at the University of Trento, director of the Sustainable Energy Lab and coordinator of the inter-university master’s program in energy engineering. He has authored 32 papers in peer-reviewed journals over the past 10 years and 41 papers in international conference proceedings on topics related to energy efficiency, storage, and energy harvesting from renewable sources. His research activity focuses on renewable energy and numerical modelling of energy systems, with particular emphasis on the integration of renewable energy production in building HVAC systems. He is currently involved in the FlexHeat project on the advanced use of heat pumps to increase energy flexibility through advanced controls and demand side management, and in a research project to develop advanced heat pump control logic to achieve decarbonization and climate change resilience goals for HVAC systems.
	Enrico Pons (PoliTo) received the master’s degree in electrical engineering and the Ph.D. in industrial safety and risk analysis from Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy, in 2004 and 2008, respectively.,He is currently Associate Professor with Politecnico di Torino, where he teaches electrical installations. His research interests include complexity in energy systems, power systems security, complex networks methodologies for the real-time analysis of power systems, integration of renewable generation in distribution networks, traction electrification systems and electrical safety.
	Asja Alic (UniTn) received her M.Sc. degree in Energy Engineering from the University of Trento (Italy) in 2022. She is currently pursuing her PhD degree in the Italian National Doctoral Program in Photovoltaics with a specific focus on solar intermittency and energy storage solutions. Her research interests include renewable energy sources, energy storage, optimization and control techniques for power system operation and power systems economics.
	Giordano Costanzi (UniTn) is from Trentino- Alto Adige and he is 25 years old. Giordano, achieved a Master Degree in Energy Engineering from the University of Trento and the University of Bolzano in 2023. The scope of his Master Thesis was the development of an inertia-dependent security-constrained unit commitment model to assess the techno-economic value of flexibility form distributed assets towards the integration of large shares of renewable generation. Just after graduation, Giordano has become Research Assistant at the University of Trento joining the PRIN PNNR project OASIS-4-RES. His main research activities deal with the modelling of several flexible assets in advanced optimal inertia-dependent system scheduling model and the assessment of the feasibility of future energy scenarios.