Stefano Cacciola received a PhD in “Rotary-wing Aircraft” in March 2013, at Politecnico di Milano in Milano, Italy. He is a former member of the Wind Energy Institute at the Technische Universitat Munchen. Since May 2016, he is a post-doc researcher at Politecnico di Milano, member of POLI-Wind research group. His research topics are focused on wind turbine system modeling, control and testing, with specific interest on identification and health monitoring. Co-authored of more than 20 indexed peer-reviewed publications and of 1 patent. He is currently involved in the EU-funded project "CL-WINDCON".