Alessandro Ferrero has been a full professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy, since 1994. He chaired the Italian Association of Electrical and Electronic Measurements (GMEE) from 2004 to 2007 and served as President of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society for the 2008-2009 term. He was Editor-in-Chief ofIEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurementfrom 2012 to 2016. In 2006, he received the IEEE Joseph F. Keithley Technical Field Award in Instrumentation and Measurement, "For advancing the measurement of electrical quantities in electric power systems under non-sinusoidal conditions". Since 2011 he has been Foreign Member of the Class of Technical Sciences of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts. In 2014, he was awarded Doctor Honoris Causa degree from the Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Romania. He has authored more than 250 papers in scientific journals and conferenceproceedings and is the author/editor of two books. He is an IEEE Fellow and a Fellow of the AAFS.

Veronica Scotti is a lawyer in Milan, Italy, and, since 2007, also a contract professor in the legal implications of engineer-professional liability at Politecnico di Milano. Her practice focuses on commercial contracts, energy provision contracts, construction and engineering, environment, and quality insurance. Her research interests are related to the analysis of the relationship between measurement activities and metrology and the regulation field, with particular regard to the legal implications of incorrect specification of measurement uncertainty. The results of her research activity have been published in more than 30 papers in journals and conference proceedings. She has been responsible for columns on legal metrology in the journal of the Italian Association of Electrical and Electronic Measurements (GMEE) andIEEE Instrumentation & MeasurementMagazine. She is a member of the AAFS.