Lorenzo Peretto was born in 1968. In 1993 he received the Laurea degree in Electronic Engineering at the University of Bologna, Italy. In 1997 he received the PhD degrees in Electrotechnic Engineering. In 1998 he joined Department of Electrical Engineering as an Assistant Professor. In 2001 he became an Associate Professor of Electric and Electronic measurements.
He is Senior Member of IEEE and member of the Instrumentation and Measurement Society. He is Instrumentation and Measurement Society representative in the IEEE Smart Grid steering committee. He is member of the CEI (Italian Electrotechnic Committee) Technical Committee (TC) 56 “Reliability”, of IEC TC85 “Measurement Instruments of Electromagnetic Quantities” and member of IEC TC38 “Instrument transformers”. Moreover he is member of the WG1 of the Joint Committee for Guides in Metrology of BIPM for the maintenance and the revision of the “Guide to the Expression of Uncertainty in Measurements”, GUM. He has been Chairman, Session Organizer and belongs to the Technical Program Committees of Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conferences (IMTC). He is member of the Working Group (TC25) of IEC on the new definition of the Ampere”. He has been member of the IEEE working group for the revision of the Standard 1459-2000 “IEEE Standard Definitions for the Measurement of Electric Power Quantities Under Sinusoidal, Nonsinusoidal, Balanced, or Unbalanced Conditions”. He received the best paper award at the last IMTC congress (2006) for presenting an advanced internet-based multimedia tool for the education in instrumentation and measurements activities. He has been invited to hold a presentation regarding measurement problems in power systems under distorted conditions in a panel session organized for the General Annual Meeting of the PES (Power Engineering Society) in 2007. He has been invited as keynote speaker at the “Test & Measurement 2012” Conference organized by the National Laboratory Association of South Africa. He is chairman of the Research Topic “Measurements and methods for Quality assurance in Processes” of the National Didactic Commission of the Electric and Electronic Measurement Group Society.
Currently he is chairman of the TC 39 “Measurement in Power Systems” of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society. He is author or coauthor of more than 180 scientific papers published on international journals and in the proceedings of international conferences in the field of electrical and electronic measurements along with coauthor of two books. He is also co-inventor of 21 Patents.
His fields of research include measurements methods and instruments of quantities in electric power systems and reliability evaluation and prediction of electrical as well as electronic devices and systems. TC39 member.
