Dr. Gregor Giebel has worked for over 20 years with short-term forecasting of wind power, large-scale integration of wind power into electricity grids, wind farm control and condition monitoring for wind turbines including standardisation within the IEC. He is Operating Agent of IEA Wind Task 36 Forecasting for Wind Power, and heads the FarmConners EU Coordination Action on wind farm control (windfarmcontrol.info) and the EU Marie Curie Initial Training Network Train²Wind (train2wind.eu). His main claim of fame is the standard report on the state of the art in short-term forecasting, with over 850 citations. He also is an accomplished writer of research proposals.