Augusto Montisci is associate professor of Circuit Theory at the Electrical and Electronic Engineering Dept. (DIEE) of the University of Cagliari (Italy). He received his PhD in mechanical design from the same University. From 2002 he worked at DIEE as Researcher, and became Associate Professor in 2016. His scientific activity concerns Artificial Neural Networks, Optimization, Non-destructive testing, Fault diagnosis, Renewable energy sources, Magnetohydrodynamics. He is the author of about 100 indexed works, which received more than 700 citations, obtaining an h-index of 14 (Scopus database). He was chairman of the X International Conference on Fundamentals and Applied MHD (PAMIR 2016), and since then he is permanent member of the organizing committee of the conference. He was a member of the founding committee of the European Society of Magnetohydrodynamics (EuMHD) of which he currently holds the position of president.