Federico Milano is a Professor in Power Systems Control and Protections at the University College Dublin School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. His research interests include power systems modelling, control and stability analysis, distributed and renewable generation, bifurcation theory, and parallel computing. He is an IEEE Fellow and an editor of several journals including IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution and IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. He also chaired the IEEE PES Task Force on Free & Open Source Software.