Dr. Giorgio Graditi

Dr. Eng. Giorgio Graditi - PhD in Electrical Engineering / Director of the Department of Energy Technologies and Renewable Sources of ENEA (Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development), Italy.
He received the doctoral degree and the Laurea degree (cum laude) in Electrical Engineering from the University of Palermo (Italy). From February 2022 is the coordinator of ENEA activities and initiatives within National Recovery and Resilience Plan, from April 2019, he is the President of MEDENER, Mediterranean Association of National Agencies for Energy Management for energy efficiency and the development of renewable energy sources, and from May 2019 is the Coordinator of the Scientific Technical Committee of National Energy Technological Cluster under the Ministry of Education, University and Research.
He is operating as Italian member for Mission Innovation Challenge 1 “Smart Grids” and Challenge 2 “Offgrid access to electricity”, and he is a member of the H2020 National Steering Board for the “Safe, Clean and Efficient Energy” Cluster, and member of the working group of the thematic area "Industrial Energy” for the “Climate, Energy and Sustainable Mobility” area set up by the Italian Ministry of University and Research within the drafting of the national research plan 2020-2027.
He is the vice-coordinator of the Joint Programme on Smart Grid (JP SG) within European Energy Research Alliance (EERA) and the responsible of many National and European (FP7, H2020) projects on the topics of RES, integrated energy networks and smart grid. In 2017, he received the Italian National Scientific Qualification as Full Professor in the sector of electrical energy engineering.
His main research interests are in: design, modelling and tools development for the control and management of Smart Grids and microgrids in the presence of DER; energy conversion components and systems design and characterization; performance analysis of integrated energy networks by multi-objective techniques; design, modelling, and analysis of multi-energy hubs; management and operation optimization of local and renewable energy communities; design, characterization and testing of concentrated solar power and photovoltaic components and plants; technologies and uses of hydrogen; RES production and demand forecasting based on artificial intelligence techniques.
He is also peer review, associated editor, member of editorial and advisory board of scientific journals, and chairman in international conference. He is also responsible of many R&D contract and agreement in the energy sector with international and national stakeholders. He is author of scientific books and more than 250 scientific papers (with Scopus H-index 37) published in international journals and proceedings of international conference most of them awarded as highly-cited papers.