Benoît Bletterie is an experienced operational planning expert at Austrian Power Grid AG, specializing in network security analyses, outage planning coordination, and remedial action optimization. With a substantial background in smart grids from AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Benoît has extensive expertise in network planning, voltage control, and power system simulations. Benoît's roles have included project management for national and European research initiatives, lecturing at Fachhochschule Technikum Wien, and contributing to standardization efforts and academic publications. Benoît holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Technische Universität Graz and degrees from CentraleSupélec and Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.