Gaetano Aiello was born in Palermo, Italy in 1984. He received an MSc degree in safety and nuclear technologies engineering from the University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy in 2008. He has been with Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany since 2008, mainly involved in design of fusion reactor components, numerical analyses, design verification against codes and standards, writing requirements in the context of the system engineering approach and full technical specifications for procurement of prototypes of fusion components.