**Alessandro Bianchini**

Alessandro Bianchini is an assistant professor at the Department of Industrial Engineering at Universita degli Studi di Firenze (UNIFI). He has authored more than 90 publications in wind energy, ` and he is presently serving as the representative of UNIFI within the board of the European Academy of Wind Energy (EAWE), as the Chair of the "Wind Energy Committee"of the ASME Turbo Expo Conference, and as an associate editor of the open-access journals *Wind Energy Science* and *Frontiers in Energy*. He is an expert in aerodynamic simulation of wind turbines, from engineering codes to computational fluid dynamics.
