Eleonora Riva Sanseverino is full professor in power systems engineering at the University of Palermo since 2019. She is delegate of the rector of the University of Palermo for European Programs coordination. In 2020, she has been nominated by the Italian Ministry of University and Research National as Expert in Cluster 5 of Horizon Europe on Climate, Energy and Mobility and she is national representative of the Driving Urban Transition Partnership and she is head of the states representatives group of the 2ZERO European partnership. She has been principal investigator of several industrial and fundamental research projects in the area of smart grids with large companies like Prysmian and Terna. She's authored more than 300 international journal and conference papers. She is in the scientific advisory board of the german association VGBE, of the Swedish Electricity Storage and Balancing Center, of the largest department of the Italian National Council of Research (CNR) and of the national center for Research in energy (RSE).