Luigi Piegari (Senior Member, IEEE) was born in Naples, Italy, in April 1975. He received the M.S. (cum laude) and Ph.D. degrees in electrical
engineering from the University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy, in 1999 and 2003, respectively. From 2003 to 2008, he was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow with the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Naples Federico II. From 2009 to 2012, he was an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy where he worked as Associate professor from 2013 to 2023. He is currently a Full Professor of electrical machines and drives with the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering. He is the author of more than 130 scientific papers published in international journals and conference proceedings. His research interests include storage device modeling, wind and photovoltaic generation, modeling and control of multilevel converters, and dc distribution grids.

Prof. Piegari is a member of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, the IEEE Power Electronics Society, IEEE Vehicular Technology Society and AEIT. He is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Industrial Electronics and he was General Co-Chair and Technical Program Chair for some IEEE sponsored and co-sponsored conferences.