Saurabh Mani Tripathi is currently an Associate Professor in electrical engineering and Founder & Coordinator of the Power & Energy Research Centre (Centre of Excellence) at Kamla Nehru Institute of Technology, Sultanpur, India. He is a recipient of the prestigious “IEI Young Engineers Award 2018-19” presented by the Institution of Engineers (India). He is also a recipient of the “Best Teachers Award 2020” presented by Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University, Lucknow, India. He authored and edited several books and has published numerous research papers in various journals and conferences as well. He is a member of several professional societies such as the Institution of Engineers (India) and the International Association of Engineers. He is a Life Member of the Indian Society for Technical Education. His areas of current interest include renewable energy systems, electrical drives, real-time simulation, and hardware-in-the-loop testing.
Francisco M. Gonzalez-Longatt is currently a Professor in Electrical Energy Systems at the Centre for Smart Grid, University of Exeter, Founder & Leader of the DIgEnSys-Lab (Digital Energy Systems Laboratory) at the University of South-Eastern Norway, Norway, where he is an honorary full professor in Electrical Power Systems. He has been involved in several industrial research projects and consultancy worldwide. In addition, he is the author/editor of numerous books (Spanish and English) and a member of the editorial board of several leading journals. His primary research interest is digital technologies as an enabler of net-zero energy systems and smart grids.