Vito Giuseppe Monopoli is Full Professor of "Converters, Machines, and Electric Drives" at the Polytechnic University of Bari, where he teaches "Power Electronic Converters" in the Automation and Robotics Engineering degree program and "Power Electronics" in the Electrical Engineering degree program.
In 2003, he was an "Invited Researcher Fellow" at the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom.
Since September 2024, he has held the position of Deputy Director of the Department of Electrical and Information Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Bari and the position of Coordinator of the Bachelor's Degree Program in Electrical Engineering.
Vito Giuseppe Monopoli is a Senior Member of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.) and is also associated with the National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN) for activities related to the power supply of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva.
His research focuses mainly, but not exclusively, on issues concerning the application of electronic power converters in both electrical networks and electric drives.
Below is a non-exhaustive list of the main topics Vito Giuseppe Monopoli has dealt with:

• Multilevel electronic power converters for electrical networks (HVDC, STATCOM, Solid State Transformer, FER and BESS interface, Energy Hubs).
• Modulation techniques for multilevel converters.
• Innovative control techniques for electronic power converters for electrical networks and smart grids.
• Control of active power filters for improving harmonic quality on electrical networks.
• Control of converters for wind power generation.
• Control of converters for photovoltaic power generation.
• Power quality assessment indices on electrical networks in the presence of electronic power converters.
Vito Giuseppe Monopoli is the author of over 100 scientific publications on these topics.
As part of the above activities, Vito Giuseppe Monopoli has collaborated at national and international level with the following universities and companies:

• University of Aalborg (Denmark)
• University of Cantabria (Spain)
• University of Groningen (Netherlands)
• University of Kiel (Germany)
• University of Nottingham (UK)
• University of Seville (Spain)
• University of Nottingham Ningbo (China)
• University of Uppsala, (Sweden)
• University of Saarbrucken (Germany)
• University of Belgrade (Serbia)
• Universidade do Minho, Braga (Portugal)
• Pukyong National University of Busan (South Korea)
• University of L'Aquila
• University of Naples
• University of Palermo
• University of Bologna
• General Electric AVIO
• Nuovo Pignone General Electric
• Magneti Marelli
• Schneider Electric
• Fincantieri
• Leonardo
• Tesmec Rail
• E1

Vito Giuseppe Monopoli holds or has held the following positions:
• Member of the Executive Board of the National Association CMAEL "Converters, Machines and Electric Drives"
• Member of the Executive Board of the National Consortium ENSIEL "Energy and Electrical Systems"
• Member of the Executive Board of the National Consortium ELMO "Electrification of Mobility"
• Member of the Technical and Scientific Committee of the Framework Research Agreement between the Polytechnic University of Bari and RSE S.p.a.
• Member of the Technical and Scientific Committee of the Framework Research Agreement between the Polytechnic University of Bari and Acciaierie d'Italia (formerly ILVA)