Salvatore Foti (S’14) received their B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Catania, Catania, Italy, in 2011 and 2013, respectively. He received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Messina, Italy, in 2017. He is currently an Assistant Professor with the Department of Engineering (DI), University of Messina. His current research interests include high-efficiency multilevel inverters, AC motor drives for Open-end-Winding systems, sensorless control strategies, ac drive control technologies, modeling and control of power converters for renewable energies, and advanced technologies for power electronics applications. He is an IEEE Member and a Guest Editor of Energies Journal for the special issue titled: Advances in Multilevel Power Converter Systems and Open-end Winding AC Motor Drives. He was a recipient of the ELEKTRO 2020 Best Paper Award.