Editorial special section on liquid dielectrics

This Special Section is part of a sequel of IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation (TDEI) dedicated to papers focusing on liquid dielectrics which are normally published every three years. The tradition of having a number of issues on liquid dielectrics was initiated at the end of the last century by the IEEE TDEI Editor-in-Chief Prof. A. van Roggen and kept on by Prof. R. Hackam and Prof. E. Cherney. Starting in 2020, this tradition was maintained and relaunched by the actual IEEE TDEI Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Michael Wubbenhorst. Massimo Pompili (MP) has been involved as a Guest Editor of IEEE TDEI Special Issues on Liquid Dielectrics quite from the beginning (TDEI, vol. 5, 1998), at that time in cooperation with Prof. Ray Bartnikas and Prof. Carlo Mazzetti; this effort went on periodically, and from 2018, MP is sharing this role with Luigi Calcara (LC), a younger colleague at the University of Roma “La Sapienza,” Rome, Italy. The present 2023 Special Section was handled by Massimo Pompili, Luigi Calcara, and Issouf Fofana (IF) from the University of Quebec at Chicoutimi, Saguenay, QC, Canada. Hopefully, MP, LC, and IF will care also about the next Special Issue on Liquid Dielectrics expected for the end of 2026 or the beginning of 2027.