Mohammadreza Aghaei received a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Politecnico di Milano, Italy in 2016. He joined Fraunhofer ISE as a visiting scholar in 2015. He was a Postdoctoral Scientist at Fraunhofer ISE and Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB)-PVcomB, Germany, in 2017 and 2018, respectively. He has joined the Department of Sustainable Systems Engineering (INATECH), Solar Energy Engineering at the University of Freiburg, as a Visiting Fellow and Senior lecturer since 2017. Later, he also fulfilled another two years Postdoc in the Design of Sustainable Energy Systems Group at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), in the Netherlands. He was also appointed as an Adjunct Professor at Amirkabir University of Technology (AUT) in 2020. He was involved in several national and EU-funded research projects dealing with energy systems, energy flexibility, solar photovoltaics, and smart/autonomous technology. Currently, he is the coordinator of an EU Horizon 2020 project “COLLECTiEF” - Collective Intelligence for Energy Flexibility at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Norway. He is also a faculty member in the Department of Sustainable Systems Engineering (INATECH), Solar Energy Engineering program at the University of Freiburg. He is an IEEE senior member and he authored over 100 publications in internationally refereed journals, book chapters, and conference proceedings. His main research interests include Photovoltaics, Renewable Energy Systems, Energy Transition, Energy Flexibility, Autonomous Monitoring, Enabling Technologies, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV).