Giovanni Lucà Trombetta is a shipbuilding professional with long experience obtained in international shipyards while facing concept design and project management challenges. He received a bachelor’s degree in naval and mechanical engineering at the University of Messina, Italy, in 2008 and a master’s degree in naval architecture and marine engineering at the University of Trieste, Italy, in 2011. He is currently a research fellow at the Institute of Advanced Technologies for Energy, CNR-ITAE, Messina. His research activities include the development, characterization, and integration of electrochemical energy storage systems, with a focus on lithium-ion technologies. Currently, he is involved in a three year PhD project in collaboration with the University of Messina on lithium ion cell aging prediction.