**About the Editors**

**Panos Kotsampopoulos** received the Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece in 2010 and the PhD degree in 2017 from the same school. Since 2010, he has been been working on research projects in the Smart RUE research group of NTUA, where he is currently a senior researcher and responsible for the development of the laboratory infrastructure of the Electric Energy Systems Laboratory. He was a guest researcher at the Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT), Vienna in 2012 and 2013. He has participated in several European research projects as a principal investigator for ICCS-NTUA and in national industrial projects. He is chair of the IEEE PES Task Force "Innovative teaching methods for modern power and energy systems", chapter co-leader of the IEEE WG P2004 "Recommended Practice for Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulation Based Testing of Electric Power Apparatus and Controls", and a member of other task forces and working groups. He is editor of the "IEEE Open Access Journal of Power and Energy" and member of the Editorial Board of the journal "Energies". He is chair of IEEE Young Professionals Greece and co-founder of the energy community "Collective Energy". He is a senior member of IEEE.

**Md Omar Faruque** received his Ph.D. from the University of Alberta, Canada in 2008. Since then, he has been working at the Center for Advanced Power Systems at Florida State University. In 2013, he was also appointed as faculty at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering. His research interest is in the area of modeling and simulation, smart grid and renewable energy integration, energy management and demand response, and ship power system design. He has published more than 100 publications, including 40 in peer reviewed journals. He has been serving as the chair of the IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES) Task Force on "Real-Time Simulation of Power and Energy System" since 2012. He is also a co-chair of the working group "Modeling and Analysis of System Transient using Digital Programs". Prof. Faruque has been a member of many other IEEE task forces and working groups. He also served as a guest editor of many Special Issues of journals of IEEE, IET, and Energies.
