Tarek Alskaif is an Assistant Professor with Tenure-track at the Information Technology group (INF), Wageningen University & Research (WUR). He received the Ph.D. degree (Cum-laude) from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Statistical Analysis of Networks and Systems (SANS) research group, Barcelona, Spain in 2016. Tarek is passionate about sustainability and energy transition and believes in the key role of ICT to enable that. Between 2016 - 2020, he was a postdoc at the Energy & Resources group at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, The Netherlands, focusing on different research problems in smart grids and smart cities, including smart energy systems design, local energy communities, solar energy forecasting, smart integration of distributed energy resources, wireless sensor networks, among others, all with an emphasis on using ICT platforms, modeling and data analytics. He is the (co)author of more than 40 peer-reviewed scientific articles and a regular reviewer for several international journals and conferences in the area of smart grids and cyber-physical systems. Tarek serves as a technical program committee member in the IEEE International Conference on Smart Energy Systems and Technologies (SEST) since 2019 and a steering committee member and publication chair in the same since 2020.