Claudio Finotti was born in 1984. He received his MSc and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Padova (Italy) in 2008 and 2012, respectively. He is a researcher at the Consorzio RFX in Padova. His studies concern some open issues related to the impact on the MV grid of the operation of the power supplies of the ITER experimental reactor, among which the interaction phenomena between ac/dc converters and reactive power compensation system; he also contributed to developing new features of the plasma control system of the RFX mode experiment.