Lars Nordström (Ph.D., MSc.EE) is Professor in Information Systems for Power System Control at KTH – The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.  He is presently head of the division of Electric Power and Energy systems at KTH, and a parttime R&D advisor at Svenska kraftnät, the Swedish TSO. His research and teaching is focused on issues at the crossroads of control, communication and power systems. His research interests include future architectures, functionality and quality aspects of Information and communication systems used for power system control, operation, automation and protection. He has served as director of the Swedish centre of Electric Power Engineering and as Thematic leader for Smartgrids and electric storage in KIC InnoEnergy He has been a visiting professor at Washington State University and visiting researcher at the  UC Berkeley TRUST centre. He is the author of numerous scientific papers in journals and international conferences, a senior member of the IEEE, CIRED and Cigre and past chairman of the Swedish mirror committee of IEC TC57.