Dragos Machidon is currently a lecturer at the Power Engineering Department of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering from “Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University of Iasi, Romania. He received an M.Sc. from “Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University of Iasi, Romania, in 2009 in the power engineering field, and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the same institution in 2014. He has 15 years of academic experience. He runs teaching courses in Electrical safety and Resources and energy conversion and also laboratory classes in the High Voltage Engineering discipline from the bachelor power engineering domain. His current research interests are related to photovoltaic conversion, solar irradiation estimation, concentration photovoltaics, and wind speed evaluation. His previous research interests were related to the protection of power installations against direct lightning strikes, lightning discharge orientation, and power lines' behavior under overvoltages. He is a member of the Romanian National Committee of the World Energy Council.