Giovanni Mazzanti

Giovanni Mazzanti (IEEE Fellow "for contributions to high voltage direct current cable systems", winner of 2026 T.W. DAKIN DISTINGUISHED TECHNICAL CONTRIBUTIONS AWARD) is associate professor of High Voltage Engineering & HVDC Technology, Electrical Technologies & Power Quality at the University of Bologna, Italy. His research topics are reliability & diagnostics of HV insulation, power quality, renewables, human exposure to Electro-Magnetic Fields. He is consultant to TERNA (Italian TSO). He is author or coauthor of 370 published papers and of the book Extruded Cables for HVDC Transmission: Advances in Research and Development, Wiley-IEEE Press, 2013. He is chairman of the IEEE DEIS Technical Committee (TC) on “HVDC cable systems”, and member of: IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES), IEEE Dielectrics & Electrical Insulation Society (DEIS), IEEE DEIS TC on “Smart grids”, IEEE PES Transmission & Distribution Committee, IEC TC 20, CIGRÉ, CIGRÉ JWG B4/B1/C4.73, CIGRÉ SC-B.1, CIGRÉ WG-B1.91, European Commission Implementation Working Group on HVDC Set Plan. He is co-Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation. Go to the Curriculum vitae