Federico Quaglia is a Senior Technical Analyst and Team Leader at Terna S.p.A., the Italian Transmission System Operator for Electricity. His current fields of activity (carried out both at national and European level) are optimal Bidding Zones reconfiguration processes in zonal electricity markets, adequacy assessments, grid security analysis and Italian capacity market design and implementation. He is a Visiting Scholar at PESD aimed at investigating potential benefits for the Italian Power System in case a Multi-settlement Locational Marginal Pricing Mechanism is applied.