Concettina Buccella was born in L Aquila. She received the M.S. degree and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of L Aquila, Italy, in 1988 and the University of Rome “La Sapienza†in 2005, respectively. After graduation she was a research engineer at Italtel SpA, L Aquila, then in 1991 she joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of L Aquila, where she was an assistant professor and since 2001 she is Associate Professor of Electrotechnics. Concettina Buccella is a Senior Member of the IEEE, a member of the Power Electronics Committee and of the Smart Grids Committee of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, for many years she was a member of the Electrostatic Process Committee of the IEEE Industry Applications Society. She is a Member of the Committee for Education Rights at the University of L Aquila. She was an evaluator of research projects, Ph.D. candidates and in promotions to Full Professor and to Associate Professor rank for several foreign institutions and universities. Concettina Buccella is a reviewer for many international journals, mostly IEEE Transactions, including TIE and TII. She was a member of the Organizing Committee and a teacher of the Post M.S. Master “Energy Manager†at the Faculty of Engineering, University of L Aquila. During 2009-2011, she was a Guest Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics - Special Section on: "Methods and Systems for Smart Grids Optimization" (published on October 2011). She has been a committee member, a reviewers and a session chair in international conferences; currently a she is a Track Chair for “Power Systems†at the 39-th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON 2013, November 10-13, 2013, Vienna, Austria) and a Technical Program Committee Member of the 2013 IEEE International Workshop on Intelligent Energy Systems “Managing the Complexity in Energy Systems†(IWIES 2013, November 14, 2013, Vienna, Austria). She is a Member of Scientific Committee of International Conference on Renewable Energy for Developing Countries (REDEC’14) Beirut, Lebanon, Nov. 26-27, 2014. She is a Program Committee member of IEEE IWIES 2014 which will be held in conjunction with IEEE SMC 2014 (www.smc2014.org) on October 8, 2014 in San Diego, CA, USA. She is Program Committee member of International Symposium on Environment Friendly Energies and Applications, (EFEA 2014) that will be held at Supmeca Campus in Paris, on the 19-21 November 2014.
