Alessandra Parisio is a professor of control of sustainable energy networks at the University of Manchester, UK. She has been a principal or co-investigator on research projects supported by e.g. Innovate UK, EC H2020, and industrial partners. She serves as an IEEE senior member and co-chair of the IEEE RAS Technical Committee on Smart Buildings and as editor of the IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, and the European Journal of Control and Applied Energy. She received the IEEE PES Outstanding Engineer Award in January 2021. Her research interests include distributed optimisation and control, power systems, and optimisation and control of multi-energy networks. She received the IEEE PES Outstanding Engineer Award in January 2021 and the Energy and Buildings Best Paper Award (for a 10-year period between 2008 and 2017) in January 2019. Her main research interests span the areas of control engineering, in particular Model Predictive Control, distributed optimisation and control, stochastic constrained control, and power systems, with energy management systems under uncertainty, optimisation and control of multi-energy networks, and distributed flexibility.

Johannes Schiffer is a professor of control systems and network control technology at the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg, Germany, in a joint appointment with the Fraunhofer Research Institution for Energy Infrastructures and Geothermal Systems (IEG), where he heads the Business Area 'System Integration, Automation and Operation Management'. Prior to that, he held appointments as a lecturer (assistant professor) at the School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Leeds, UK, and as a research associate in the Control Systems Group and as the Chair of Sustainable Electric Networks and Sources of Energy both at TU Berlin. Prof. Schiffer and his co-workers received the Automatica Paper Prize over the years 2014-16 and the at - Automatisierungstechnik Best Paper Award 2022. He currently also serves as co-coordinator of the Energy Innovation Center Cottbus (EIZ) and as coordinator of the EU MSCA Doctoral Network Dependable Smart Energy Systems (DENSE).

Christian A. Hans is a professor (W1 with tenure track) of Automation and Sensorics in Networked Systems at the University of Kassel, Germany. He earned a PhD degree with distinction from TU Berlin in 2021. Before joining TU Berlin, he worked as an engineering expert at Younicos AG (now Aggreko plc), Germany, developing control algorithms for low-inertia microgrids. His research combines automatic control theory and applications in power systems with intermittent decentralized renewable generation.