Oriano Bottauscio was born in Turin, Italy, in 1961. He received an M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from Politecnico di Torino, in 1985. In 1987, he joined the Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica (INRiM), formerly Istituto Elettrotecnico Nazionale Galileo Ferraris, and earned the level of the Research Director in 2012. In the same year, he received the qualification as a Full Professor of electrotechnics. In 2015, he was a Member of the Board of Professor of the Ph.D. course in metrology with Politecnico di Torino. Since 2018, he has been in the role of Deputy Coordinator. He is the author of more than 250 journal articles, with around 2700 citations (H-index 27). His research interests include computational electromagnetism for biomedical applications, with a main emphasis on MRI safety and medical devices. He is the INRiM contact person in the EURAMET Technical Committee of Interdisciplinary Metrology.