Alessandro Fontanella is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Politecnico di Milano. His research interests are in the field of numerical modeling of floating wind turbines and wind farms, wind tunnel experiments of wind energy systems, hybrid hardware-in-the-loop testing of floating wind turbines, wind turbine and wind farm control. He has been involved in several international research projects (LIFES50+, The Blue Growth Farm, COREWIND, Step4Wind, OC6). He has published 41 papers in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings and he is a reviewer of international journals.