Corneliu Marinescu (M’07) was born in Brasov, Romania, He received a Dipl.Ing. degree in electromechanical engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of Brasov, Brasov, in 1971 and a Ph.D. degree from the Politehnica University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania, in 1991. He is currently a PhD supervisor, full professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computers Science, Transilvania University of Brasov, where he is also the head of Power Electronics and Electrical Machines (POWERELMA) research laboratory. He is the author or coauthor of more than 220 journal/conference papers in his research fields. His areas of interests include power electronics applied to renewable energy sources, RES, and storage, RES-based microgrids, and EV charging stations.