FRANCISCO A. S. NEVES (Senior Member, IEEE) was born in Campina Grande, Brazil, in 1963. He received B.S. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil, in 1984 and 1992, respectively, and a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, in 1999. Since 1993, he has been with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil, where he is currently a Full Professor. He was a Visiting Scholar with the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA, in 1999, and the University of Alcala, Madrid, Spain, from 2008 to 2009. His research interests include power electronics, renewable energy systems, power quality and grid connected converters.