Peter Palensky is Professor for intelligent electric power grids at TU Delft, Netherlands. Before that, he was the Principal Scientist for Complex Energy Systems at the Austrian Institute of Technology, Associate Professor at the University of Pretoria, South Africa, Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, University Assistant at the Vienna University of Technology, Austria, and researcher at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, California. He is active in international committees such as IEEE and is Editor in Chief of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine and associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. His main research field is complex and integrated energy systems.