Gianluca Lipari obtained his Ph.D. degree in electronic engineering from the University of Reggio Calabria, Italy, in 2015.

Since October 2022 he has been Technical Leader and European projects coordinator at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) Europe. His research activities focus on the digitalization of the energy system, including cloud applications for cyber-physical systems monitoring and automation, interoperability, data driven and Artificial Intelligence-powered approaches for electricity grids management and operation, distributed generation and electrical storage integration. 

Dr. Lipari is the coordinator of the Horizon Europe project AGISTIN, for the advanced integration of renewables and storage solutions in industrial processes, and the AI-EFFECT Horizon Europe project, aiming at the creation of a Testing and Experimentation Facility (TEF) for the development of AI solutions in the energy sector. Currently he is involved in the Horizon Europe int:net project for the creation of a European interoperability network for the energy transition, leading the development of interoperability maturity assessment tools.