Rafael Diez received his B.Sc. degree in Electronic Engineering from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Bogotá, Colombia) in 2001; he obtained his Master’s degree in Microelectronics from the Université Paul Sabatier de Toulouse (France) in 2005 and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse in 2008. He is currently with the Department of Electronics of the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana as an associate professor. His main interest is the development of power converters for electric discharges and for the integration or renewable energy sources.