Paolo Attilio Pegoraro was born in Arzignano (VI) in 1976. He received, summa cum laude, the MS degree in Telecommunication Engineering and the PhD in Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering from the University of Padua, respectively in 2001 and 2005.

Since 2018 he is Associate Professor of Electric and Electronic Measurements at the University of Cagliari (UniCa), where he also worked as
assistant professor from 2015 to 2018. He is in charge of the courses "Measurement Systems for Information Engineering" for the Laurea degree in Electronic, Computer and Telecommunication Engineering, “Automatic Measurement Systems” (Sistemi Automatici di Misura) for the Laurea Magistrale in Electronic Engineering and “Measurements and Cybersecurity for Smart Grid” for the Laurea Magistrale in Computer Engineering, Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence (CECAI).

For teaching activities, he won, in 2019, the "Faculty Course Development Award" (FCDA) from the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society (IMS).  In UniCa, he is a member of the focus group for the implementation of the Human Resources Strategy for Researchers (HRS4R), the IE self-evaluation committee, the faculty panel (he is the coordinator of the curriculum in Electronics and Telecommunications) of the Doctoral Program in Electronic and Computer Engineering (DRIEI), and the CECAI admissions committee. He served as internal member of the DRIEI and Industrial Engineering PhD final exam evaluation committees for the XXXIII and XXXIV cycles, respectively.

He is a senior member of IEEE, IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society (for IMS, he serves also a member of the technical committee TC 39, Measurement for power systems) and Italian Association GMEE. He is also member of IET TC 38 – Instrument transformers WG 47. He is member of the working group on Energy of IEEE European Public Policy Committee (EPPC).

He is Senior Area Editor (Power Instrumentation and Measurement) of the IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement and the General Chair of the IEEE International Workshop on Applied Measurements for Power Systems (AMPS).

He has worked, mainly focusing on the definition of algorithms and systems for measurements and signal processing, in different
fields: speech recognition (in Loquendo SpA – ex CSELT, Turin), VoIP (presso Abbeynet SpA, Sestu), audio/video processing, particularly for internet applications, and remote control of electronic instrumentation. His reseach interests also include measurements for telecommunications and for traffic monitoring in packet networks.

Currently, his research activity is mainly focused on the design of new measurement techniques, in particular for moder power networks. He studies the development of synchronized instruments, distributed measurement systems (e.g. state estimation in the smart grid context).

He is or was, among other activities, scientific director for UniCa of several projects, among which recently: the european projects “GridData – Metrology for reliable power grid data analytics” and “Wideband AC quantum traceability”, "POWERHERO – Smart grid-connected power converters based on advanced synchrophasor-inspired harmonics measurements for holistic integration of renewable energy sources" funded by the Italian Ministry of University within programme PRIN 2022, "IQSS (Information Quality aware and Secure Sensor networks for smart cities)" and “SUM2GRIDS, Solutions by mUltidisciplinary approach for intelligent Monitoring and Management of power distribution GRIDS” funded by Fondazione di Sardegna. He is consultant for important companies, such as Terna Rete Italia SpA and Ricerca sul Sistema Energetico – RSE S.p.A.

He is author of over 200 scientific papers published on international journals (IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, etc.) and on proceedings of international conferences (mainly IEEE and IMEKO) and also national ones. He serves as a Reviewer for several prestigious international journals. In particular, he was awarded as “Outstanding Reviewer” for the IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement in  2011, 2013-2018.

In 2020 he was recognized as a “Top 70 most-published author of all time”, a “Top 70 most published author in the past seven years” for IEEE TIM (rank: 9) and a coauthor of 3 papers among the “Top 70 most-cited articles published in the past seven years” (best rank: 7) in IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement.

In 2025, for his work and research activity, Prof. Pegoraro has been awarded the prestigious IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society Technical Award 2025, with the citation: “For outstanding contributions to the advancement of synchronized measurements and monitoring systems for power grids”.

(last update October 2025)