Personal Details:
Prof. Lorenzo Peretto
University of Bologna
Department of Electrical, Electronic and Information Engineering
Viale Risorgimento, 2
40136 Bologna – Italy
Email: lorenzo.peretto@unibo.it
Summary
Lorenzo Peretto is Full Professor of Electrical and Electronic Measurements at the Department of Electrical, Electronic and Information Engineering of the University of Bologna – Italy.
- Professor of the subject: Applied Measurements for Power Systems (in English)
- Professor of the subject: Mechanical and Thermal Measurements
- He has been Director of the Electric Vehicle Engineering Master Program, at the University of Bologna since 2023.
- From 2018-2021 he was Coordinator of the Degree Course in Electrical Energy Engineering in Bologna
- He has been appointed by Italian CEI to the IEC TC38/WG37 "Instrument Transformers" and currently he is actively working to the new Standard Series IEC 61869 "Voltage and rrent Transformers".
- He is Convenor of JWG55 IECTC38 / IEEE-IMS "Uncertainty Evaluation in Calibration of Instrument Transformers".
- He is Convenor of the IEC TC38 WG45 "Mathematical modeling of Instrument Transformers".
- His fields of research are: calibration and characterization of voltage and current sensors used in power network and power system applications; measurements and diagnostic in power applications;; uncertainty propagation and evaluation in measurements in power systems; signal processing of electrical quantities.
- He is Senior Member of the IEEE and member of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society.
- Since 1998 he is serving at the University of Bologna as a consultant for electrical & electronic industries operating in the field of sensors and instrumentation in power systems.
Work experiences and Key achievements
Till today
- General Co-chairman of the Annual IEEE Workshop Applied Measurements for Power Systems (AMPS), since 2010.
- He is Chairman, Session Organizer and belongs to the Technical Program Committees of IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conferences (I2MTC).
- He is Instrumentation and Measurement Society representative in IEEE Smart Grid steering committee.
2015
- Associate Editor for the Special Issue of IEEE Transactions on instrumentation and Measurements related to scientific papers presented at the IEEE Applied Measurements for Power Systems Workshop (AMPS).
2014
- Secretary of the graduate program in “Electrical Energy Engineering” at the University of Bologna. He coordinated the exchange students Erasmus program till 2015
- Chairman of the TC39 of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society "Measurements in Power Systems" (since 2009)
- IEC representative inside the Working Group 1 of the Joint Committee for Guides in Metrology (JCGM) at the BIPM for the review and update of the Guide to Expression of Uncertainty in Measurement (GUM) and the relevant Supplements
- He has been chairman of the Research Section of GMEE (Italian Electronic and Electrical Measurements Group) "Measurements and methods for Quality Assurance in Processes" (since 2012)
2012
- Active member of the IEEE working group for Standard IEEE 1459-2000 "IEEE Standard Definitions for the Measurement of Electric Power Quantities Under Sinusoidal, Nonsinusoidal, Balanced, or Unbalanced Conditions"
- He has been invited to chair and coordinate a Panel Session "Power system islands, autonomous microgrids and relevant instrumentation" to the IEEE-PES "Innovative Smart Grid Technology" Conference (ISGT), Washington DC
- He has been invited as Keynote Speaker at the "Testing and Measurements" International Conference in South Africa in 2012 titled "Smart Grids: Definitions and Measurement Issues"
2007
- He has been invited at the IEEE General Annual Meeting of PES (Power Engineering Society) to give a lecture “Measurement problems in power systems under distorted conditions”
2006
- He received the Best Paper Award "Advanced Internet-based multimedia tool for the education in instrumentation and measurements activities"
2004
- Special Session organizer at IEEE IMTC: "Electric Power Quality Measurements and Relevant Uncertainty Estimation"
International Publications
- Author and co-author of more than 210 scientific papers
- Co-inventor of 31 patents
- Co-author of the book: "Reliability Engineering: basic concepts and applications in ICT", Springer 2011.
- Co-author of the book "The reliability in modern design. A competitive element that links safety and certification "- A & T - 2007.
- Contributor of on chapter in the book: A. Monti, C. Muscas, F. Ponci, “Phasor Measurement Units and Wide Area Monitoring Systems, From the sensor to the systems”, Elsevier, 2016
Other activities
He is reviewer of international journals (Elsevier- “Measurement”, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurements, IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Journal of Physics) and International conferences
