• 2009: Guest Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics - Special Section on: "Methods and Systems for Smart Grids Optimization" (published in 2011)
• 2014-2021: Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics
• 2015: Guest Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics - Special Section on: "Recent Advances in Multilevel Inverters and their Applications" (published in 2016)
• 2019: Member of the Editorial Bord of the International Journal of Smart Grid (web site: www.ijSmartGrid.org)
• 2019: Guest Editor of the Special Issue "Multilevel Power Converters Control and Modulation Techniques" of the Energies magazine (MDPI).
• 2019: Associate Editor of the IEEE Systems Journal

2 Scientific memberships

• since 1992: Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
• since 2003: Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
• since 2023 (january 1): Fellow Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
• 1998-2002: Member of the Electrostatic Process Committee of the IEEE Industry Applications Society
• Founding member of the Smart Grid Committee of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society
• Member of the Power Electronic Committee of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society
• Member of the Renewable Energy Systems Technical Committee of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society
• 2016-2018: Chair of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society Renewable Energy Systems Technical Committee.
• 2021: Expert nominated review for VQR 2015-2019 for GEV 09 SSD ING-IND/32 PE7_3 e PE7_2 (maggio 2021).

3 Awards

• STAR Reviewer Award for the IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics (2019).
• Best 2013 Paper Award for the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, for the paper “Digital Control of Power Converters - A Survey,” IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, vol. 8, no. 3 , pp. 437-447, Aug. 2012, co-authors: C. Cecati, H. Latafat.
• Best 2012 Paper Award for the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, for the paper “Smart Grid Technologies: Communication Technologies and Standards”, IEEE Trans. on Industrial Informatics, vol. 7, no. 4, pp.529-539, Nov. 2011, co-authors: V.C. Gungor, D. Sahin, T. Kocak, S. Ergut, C. Cecati and G.P. Hancke.
• Best Paper Award for for the 2020 IEEE International Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference (IPEMC-ECCE Asia), Nov 29 - Dec 2, 2020, Nanjing, China, for the paper “Super Twisting Sliding Mode Controller for PMSM fed with Multilevel Inverter for E-transportation”,Vidhi Patel, Stefano Di Gennaro, Concettina Buccella, Carlo Cecati.
• Best Paper Award for the 2018 International Conference on Smart Grids (icSmartGrids), December 4 -6, 2018, Prefectural Art Museum, Nagasaki, Japan, for the paper: “Mixed Harmonic Elimination Control for a Single-Phase 9-Level Grid-Connected Inverter”; co-authors: F. Viola, V. Castiglia, G. Schettino, C. Cecati, M. Cimoroni, R. Miceli.
• Best 2012 Session Paper Award - IEEE International Conference on Industrial Electronics (IECON 2012), Montréal, Canada, October 25 - 28, 2012. Title of the paper: "Implementation of Digital PID and Fuzzy Control in a LLC Resonant Converter," co-authors: C. Cecati, H. Latafat, K. Razi.
• Best Student Paper/Best Symposium Paper Award from the 2007 IEEE Electromagnetic Compatibility Society International Symposium, Honolulu, USA, July 8-13, 2007. Title of paper: “Numerical Prediction of SAR and Thermal Elevation in a 0.25-mm 3-D Model of the Human Eye Exposed to Handheld Transmitters”, co-authors: V. De Santis, M. Feliziani.
• Second Best Paper at Bioelectromagnetic (BEMS) 28th Annual Meeting, Cancun, Mexico, June 11-15, 2006. Title of paper: “Investigation of Temperature Increase in Human Eyes Due to Different RF Sources”, co-authors: V. De Santis, M. Feliziani.

4 Technical Committees Activities

• 1997: Member of the Organizing Committee of the 3 rd International Conference on Applied Electrostatics (97 ICAES) held in Shanghai, China, 14-16 November 1997.
• 1999: Member of the Organizing Committee of the 1999 Annual Meeting of the National Coordination Group of Electrical Engineering.
• 2000: Member of the Organizing Committee in the Conference IEEE Industry Applications Annual Meeting, Electrostatic Process Committee, Rome, October 2000.
• 2007: Member of the Design and Management Group of the Project Multi “Centres of Higher Education in the fields of Manufacturing and Services” (POL_AF) funded with POR Abruzzo money (cost of intervention: € 4,256,000).
• 2007: Member of the Organizing Committee of the Second Level Master “Energy Manager”, of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of L'Aquila.
• 2013: Power Systems Track Chair of the 39th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON 2013), November 10-13, 2013, Vienna, Austria.
• 2013: Technical Program Committee Member of the 2013 IEEE International Workshop on Intelligent Energy Systems “Managing the Complexity in Energy Systems” (IWIES), November 14, 2013, Vienna, Austria.
• from 2013: Member of Scientific Committee of International Conference on Clean Electrical Power Renewable Energy Resources Impact (ICCEP).
• 2014: Technical Committee Member of IEEE International Conference titled “International Conference on Consumer Electronics” (ICCE), 7-10 September, 2014, Berlin.
• 2014: Program Committee Member of IEEE IWIES 2014 which will be held in conjunction with IEEE SMC 2014 (www.smc2014.org) on October 8, 2014 in San Diego, CA, USA.
• from 2014: Program Committee Member of International Symposium on Environment Friendly Energies and Applications, (EFEA).
• from 2014: Member of Scientific Committee of International Conference on Renewable Energy for Developing Countries (REDEC).
• 2014: Technical Committee Member of International Conference in Science, Engineering and Management Research” (ICSEMR) from 27th November 2014 to 29th November 2014, Avadi, Chennai, Tamilnadu, India.
• 2014: Co-Chair of the session MoB8 "Power Converters, Control, and Energy Management for Distributed Generation at International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE), June 1-4, 2014, Istanbul, Turkey.
• 2015: Track Chair of the Power Electronics Track at International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE), June 3-5, 2015, Buzios-Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• 2015: Track Chair for “Power Systems” at the 41st Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON), November 9-12, 2015, Yokohama, Japan.
• 2015: Technical Committee Member of International Conference on Fuzzy System and Data Mining (FSDM2015) which will be held in Shanghai, China, December 12-15, 2015.
• 2016: Treasurers at the 2016 Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society.
• 2016: Power Systems Track Chair of the 42nd Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON 2016), Oct. 24-27, 2016, Florence, Italy.
• 2017: Power Systems Track Chair of the 43rd Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON), Oct. 29 - Nov. 1, 2017, Beijing, Cina.
• 2017: Organizing Committee Member of 2017 International Conference on Mechatronics, Automation & Intelligent Materials November 13-14, 2017, Paris, France.
• from 2017: Technical Program Committee Member at IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics Berlin (ICCE-Berlin).
• from 2018: Member of the International Scientific Committee of SPEEDAM, Symposium on Power Electronics, Electrical Drives, Automation and Motion, 20-22 June, Amalfi.
• 2018: Technical Track for “Renewable Energy Systems” ICIT'2018 - the 19th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology of the IEEE IES society will be held in Lyon, France, February 20-22, 2018.
• 2018: Organizing Committee Member (OCM) for 3rd International Conference on Power and Energy Engineering, June 18-19, 2018, at Rome, Italy.
• 2018: Committee Members for ENERGY 2018, the Eighth International Conference on Smart Grids, Green Communications and IT Energy-aware Technologies, May 20 - 24, 2018 - Nice, France.
• 2018: Tutorial-Workshop Chairs at 5th International Symposium on Environment Friendly Energies and Applications (EFEA) 2018, Rome 24-26 September 2018.
• from 2018: Member of Steering Committee at the International Symposium on Environment Friendly Energies and Applications (EFEA).
• 2018: Technical Program Committee Member of AEIT Automotive Conference.
• 2018: Steering Committee Member at AEIT International Annual Conference.
• 2018: TPC Member for 3ICT'18 (International Conference on Innovation and Intelligence for Informatics, Computing, and Technologies), Bahrain, 18-20 November, 2018.
• 2019: International Advisory Board Member at CPE/POWERENG Conference, Sønderborg, DK, 23-25 April 2019.
• 2019: Smart Grid Track Chair at CPE/POWERENG Conference, Sønderborg, DK, 23-25 April 2019.
• 2019: Track Co-Chair on Renewable Electric Energy Conversion, Processing and Storage for IEEE-ISIE, Vancouver, Canada.
• 2019: Advisory Committee Members at 2nd International Conference on Power and Embedded Drive Control-2019 (ICPEDC-2019) during 21-23 August 2019 in association with IEEE Madras Section.
• 2019: Member of International Scientific Committee of 4th International Conference on Power Electronics and their Applications ICPEA 2019, which will be held on 25-27 September 2019 in Elazig, Turkey.
• 2019: TPC member for 23rd 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Consumer Technologies (ISCT), Ancona, Italy, 19th – 21st June 2019.
• 2020: Special Session Chair in the IES-IEEE 14th International Conference on Compatibility, Power Electronics and Power Engineering (CPE-POWERENG2020), Setubal (Portugal), 8-10 July, 2020.
• 2020: Special Session Chair at the IEEE 2nd International Conference on Industrial Electronics for Sustainable Energy Systems (IESES), Cagliari, Sardinia, 20 Apr. 2020 - 22 Apr. 2020.
• 2020: Power Systems and Smart Grid Track Chair at the 29th IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE), Delft, the Netherlands, 17-19 June 2020.
• 2020: International Program Committee Member of IEEE-PES-ISGT-Europe-2020, 10th International Conference on Innovative Smart Grids Technologies, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, from 26-28 October 2020.
• from 2020: Technical Program Committee Member of Zooming Innovation in Consumer Technologies International Conference (ZINC).
• 2020: Members for the Human-Machine Interaction and User Experience (HMI)-Technical Stream Committee-IEEE Consumer Electronics Society (CESoc).
• 2020: Evaluator of research and professional activity of research-oriented institutes of the Czech Academy of Sciences for the period 2015–2019.
• 2021: Member of International Technical Committee of 4th International Conference on Energy, Electrical and Power Engineering (CEEPE 2021), Chongqing, China, April 23-25, 2021.
• 2021: Member of the Technical Board of IEEE 15th International Conference on Compatibility, Power Electronics and Power Engineering - CPE-POWERENG 2021, Florence, Italy, July 14-16, 2021.
• 2022: Member of Technical Program Committee at 13th Power Electronics and Drives, Systems and Technologies Conference (PEDSTC 2022), February 1-3, 2022, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran.
• 2022: Technical Committee Member at 6th International Conference on Power Energy Systems and Applications (ICoPESA 2022), February 25-27 2022 at Singapore.
• 2022: Track Co-Chair of the track on Power Systems & Smart Grid, IEEE ISIE 2022 conference will take place in Anchorage, Alaska, USA, June 1-3, 2022.
• 2022: Technical Committee Member at Asia Power and Electrical Technology Conference (APET), Shanghai, China, November 11-13, 2022. (www.apet.net).
• 2022: Technical Committee Member at the 3rd International Conference on Power Engineering (ICPE 2022) in Sanya during Dec. 9-11, 2022. (www.icpe.net).
• 2023: Technical Committee Member at the International Conference on Power Science and Technology (ICPST 2023) is to be held in Kunming, Yunnan, China on May 5-7, 2023.
• 2023: Technical Committee Member at the 5th Asia Energy and Electrical Engineering Symposium, which will take place in Chengdu, China again from March 23 to 26, 2023.
• 2023: Steering Committee/ Technical Committee Member at the 2nd International Conference on Clean Energy Storage and Power Engineering (CESPE2023), December 15-16, 2023 in Xi'an, China.
• 2023: Technical Program Committee Member at the 2nd Asia Power and Electrical Technology Conference Shanghai, China, December 28-30, 2023.
• 2024: Technical Committee Member at 8th International Conference on Power Energy Systems and Applications Hong Kong, March 1-3, 2024.
• 2024: Technical Committee Member at 2024 International Conference on Power Electronics and Energy System (ICPEES 2024) will take place in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia during March 1-3, 2024.
• 2024: Programme Committee Member of the 8th edition of the IEEE International Conference on Control, Automation and Diagnosis ICCAD'24 which will take place in Paris-France from May 15 to 17, 2024.
• 2024: Committee Member for AIVR 2024, The First International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Immersive Virtual Reality, scheduled to be April 14 - 18, Venice, Italy.
• 2024: Program Committee Member for the 2024 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE), 6-8 January 2024, Las Vegas, NV, USA.
• 2024: Technical Program Committee Member at IEEE MELECON 2024 – Porto – Portugal – 25-27 June 2024.

5 Plenary speeches

• 2013: Plenary speaker for the International Conference of Energy and Water, September 25-27, 2013, Luanda, Angola. Title of presentation: "Standards for smart grids with emphasis on their realization in remote and rural areas" (invitated by the Ministry of Energy and Water of Angola).
• 2018: Plenary speaker alla International Conference on Renewable Energy Research and Applications, (ICRERA-2018), Paris, France, October 14-17, 2018. Title: “Low switching frequency modulation techniques for renewable energy multilevel converters”.
• 2020: Plenary speaker at 14th International Conference on Development and Application Systems (DAS 2020), May 24-26, 2020 - Suceava, Romania. Title: “Modulation Techniques for High Efficiency Power Converters”.
• 2020: Lecture to celebrate the first century of Harbin Institute of Technology, Cina.

6 Tutorial instructor

• 2015: Tutorial instructor at Harbin Institute of Technology, China, “Modulation techniques applied to multilevel inverters”
• 2016: Tutorial instructor at Bohai University, Jinzhou Shi, China, “Fundamental frequency modulation algorithms”
• 2016: Summer course teacher for “Electrical Science” at Harbin Institute of Technology, China
• 2018: Tutorial instructor at the Petroleum Institute University and Research Center, Abu Dhabi: “Efficient modulation techniques for power converters”.

7 Industrial research and technology trasfer

• 2007: Founding Member of DigiPower Ltd., L'Aquila, Italy (https://www.digipower.it), a spin-off of the University of L'Aquila active in the field of industrial electronics, modeling and numerical electromagnetic compatibility
• from 2012 to 2017: Chief Executive Officer at DigiPower Ltd., L'Aquila, Italy
• form 2017: Chief Scintific Officer at DigiPower Ltd., L'Aquila, Italy
• Founding Member of “NEXTION” project (NEXT innovatION model) (www.nextion.it) aimed at creating a modern center of excellence based on a new business model for innovation in the Abruzzo region.

8 PhD Thesis evaluator and Award Commitee Member

9 Activities at the department DISIM

• 24/06/2021: Teaching staff representative member of the departmental “giunta”
• 10/11/2021: President of the Didactic Area Council in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)