Romano Giglioli

He was born in San Gimignano (Italy) in1951. In 1976 received the degree in electrical engineering at the University of Pisa, and in the same year he was awarded the “G.Levi Cases” prize for Energy Economy and Technique.

He has been a member of the Department of Electrical System and Automation of the University of Pisa, first as researcher, than as associated professor and lastly (since 1994) as full professor of electric power systems.

He is a member of council of PhD courses “Thermal and electric energy” and “Land Vehicles and transportation systems”.

His research interests regard electrical energy production, transmission and storage systems, and propulsion transportation systems. He has worked in collaboration with public and private researcher centres and published over 100 papers and same patents of electric power systems.

Since 1995 to 2002 he has been director of the Department of the Electrical System ad Automation of the University of Pisa.

Since 1997 he has been the coordinator of safety experts of the University of Pisa and since 2002 he has been president of Engineer Faculty Building Committee.

Since 2005 he has been director of the post degree Master course “Management and Planning of renewable electrical power systems”, organized by the University of Pisa, ENEL, CONFINDUSTRIA, Kyoto Club and Legambiente.

Since 2007 he is a member of the board of directors for University of Pisa.

As Steering Committee member he has given his contribute to constitute ITALCERTIFER (involving the Italian National rail-way and several Universities) a society that operates for the transport system research and homologation of railway vehicles. Since 2002 to 2008 he has been a member of the board of directors for ITALCERTIFER.

Since 1999 to 2005 he has been a member of the “Gas Network development and distribution management concession Committee” for Fiorentina Gas Spa, designated by the municipal district of Florence.

He is a scientific coordinator of CET, Regional Energy Consortium.

He is a delegate of Department of Electrical system and Automation for WEC Italy and since 2005 he is Italian delegate for EuropeanMirror Group of TP-SmartGrids.

He is evaluator of pre-competitive projects for the Ministry of Productive Activities.

Since 2006 he is member of board of directors of CRIBE Interuniversity Research Consortium for biomass for energy.