George Kariniotakis (S’95-M’02-SM’11) received his Eng. and M.Sc. degrees from Greece in 1990 and 1992 respectively, and his Ph.D. degree from Ecole des Mines de Paris in 1996. He is currently with the Centre PERSEE of MINES ParisTech as a senior scientist and head of the Renewable Energies and Smartgrids Group. He has authored more than 220 scientific publications in journals and conferences. He has been involved as participant or coordinator in more than 40 R&D projects in the fields of renewable energies and distributed generation. Among them, he was the coordinator of some major EU projects in the field of wind power forecasting and integration such as Anemos (FP5), Anemos.plus (FP6) and SafeWind (FP7) projects.

• Senior Member IEEE
• Associate Editor, Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews Journal (Elsevier) (since 3/2018)
• Member of the Editorial Board, Forecasting — Open Access Journal (MDPI) (since 7/2017)
• Associate Editor, Wind Energy Science Journal (Since 5/2015)