Gian Paolo Incremona was born in Comiso, Italy, in 1988. He was a student of the Almo Collegio Borromeo of Pavia and of the class of Science and Technology of the Institute for Advanced Studies (IUSS) of Pavia. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees summa cum laude in Electric Engineering in 2010 and 2012, respectively, from the University of Pavia, where he also obtained his Ph.D. degree in Electronics, Computer Science, and Electrical Engineering in 2016. Since then, he has been with the Identification and Control Systems Dynamics Laboratory of the University of Pavia as a postdoc, and, from October to December 2014, he was with the Dynamics and Control Group of the Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands. He is currently an associate professor of Automatic Control with the Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria, Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Gian Paolo Incremona has carried out research in the area of variable structure control and optimal control and he is active in the following topics: sliding mode control, model predictive control, switched systems, rail control systems, industrial robotics and power systems.