Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Andrea Benigni earned his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from Politecnico di Milano in 2005 and 2008, respectively, and obtained his Ph.D. from RWTH Aachen University in 2013. Between 2014 and 2019, he served as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA. During his time at USC, Prof. Benigni established an independent research group, securing funding from the Office of Naval Research, the National Science Foundation, and private industry. His research concentrated on developing simulation, monitoring, and control solutions for multi-modal energy systems. During this period, notable achievements include developing a parallelization method that achieved the highest time resolution for real-time simulation of power electronics systems and leading an industry-funded project that conceptualized, lab-verified, and field-deployed a new DC microgrid operation and protection concept within a year.
In 2019, Prof. Benigni joined RWTH Aachen University as a full professor (W3) of "Computational Methods for Energy Systems Engineering" and became the director of the Institute of Energy and Climate Research – Energy Systems Engineering (ICE-1) at Forschungszentrum Jülich. Prof. Benigni actively contributes to the scientific community by participating in several working groups and technical committees.