Marco Briceño-León (Student Member, IEEE) was born in Quito, Ecuador, in 1986. He received the bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas (ESPE), Ecuador, in 2006, and the M.Sc. degree in renewable energy from the Carl Von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany, in 2015. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in industrial production engineering with the Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain. He worked at the energy sector in EPC companies, from 2011 to 2013. He has been a Lecturer with Universidad de las Américas, Quito, since 2017. His research interests include renewable energy and energy efficiency.