Alessandro Massi Pavan is the Delegate of the Rector for Sustainability and Energy Transition and Coordinator of the Giacomo Ciamician Interdepartmental Center for Energy, Environment and Transport at the University of Trieste, Italy. He is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and serves as Coordinator of the Master's Degree Program in Engineering for the Energy Transition at the Department of Engineering. His research and teaching activities focus on energy systems, photovoltaic technologies, electric mobility, energy storage systems, and smart grids.