Filippo Spertino received his M. Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering in 1995 and 2000, respectively, from Politecnico di Torino (PdT) university, Torino, Italy. Currently, he is an associate Professor (with full professor recognition within Italian Scientific Qualification as) in Electric Power Systems with reference to Photovoltaic and Wind power systems at Energy Department, PdT. His research activities include design, simulation, experimental testing on photovoltaic, wind, storage power systems and instrument calibration. He was principal investigator of some research projects on innovative photovoltaic applications with storage systems, funded by various companies, e.g. Edison, Whirlpool, ENI, EGEA. Moreover, he was principal investigator of the project PVENAS funded by the Region Piedmont. He participated to the following European Projects: PERSIL, SINGULAR, e-HIGHWAY 2050 and OSMOSE. He is responsible for PdT of two Erasmus+ projects: EUMong and THREE Lanka.
He is senior member of: IEEE (since 2007), CEI (Italian Electrotechnical Committee since 2007) and IEC, regarding Photovoltaic Energy Systems and Wind Energy Systems. He is coauthor of more than 130 publications: 47 articles on Journals, 3 review articles, 2 chapters of books and the remainder on proceedings of Conferences. He was Technical Program Chair of the 7th IEEE International Conference on Innovative Smart Grid Technologies “ISGT Europe 2017” hosted by Politecnico di Torino, 26-29 Sept. 2017.