Prof. Dr. Antonello Monti received his M.Sc degree (summa cum laude) and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Politecnico di Milano, Italy in 1989 and 1994, respectively. He started his career in Ansaldo Industria and then moved in 1995 to Politecnico di Milano as Assistant Professor. In 2000, he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering of the University of South Carolina (USA) as an Associate and then Full Professor. Since 2008, he has been the Director of the Institute for Automation of Complex Power Systems within the E.ON Energy Research Center at RWTH Aachen University. Since 2019, he has held a double appointment with Fraunhofer FIT where he is developing the new Center for Digital Energy in Aachen.