Paolo Roberto Massenio was born in Altamura, Italy, in 1992. He received the master’s (Hons.) degree in control engineering from Politecnico di Bari, Bari, Italy, in 2017, where he is pursing the Ph.D degree. In 2019 and 2020 he was a Visiting Scholar with the University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX. His research interests include optimal and distributed control of DC microgrids and unconventional actuators.