Alessandro Di Giorgio (Member, IEEE) was born on May 15, 1980, in Rome, Italy. He received the Laurea degree (cum laude) in physics in 2005, and the Ph.D. degree in systems engineering from the University of Rome, La Sapienza, Rome, Italy, in 2010. He is currently an Associate Professor of automatic control, working on original applications of control systems theory to smart grids. He is author of about 60 papers and book chapters on these topics, mainly produced in the context of national and European research projects.