Lotfi BAGHLI (IEEE Senior Member 2012) was born in 1971. He received the Electrical Engineering Diploma degree (Hons.) in 1994 from the Ecole Nationale Polytechnique of Algiers, Algiers, Algeria. He received the DEA and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from the Université Henri Poincare, Nancy, France, in 1995 and 1999, respectively. From 2000 to 2009, he was an Assistant Professor at Nancy University, Nancy. From 2009 to 2021, he was a Professor at Tlemcen University, Tlemcen, Algeria. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor at ENSEM, Nancy, and a member of Groupe de Recherche en Energie Electrique de Nancy. His research interests include digital control of electrical machines, metaheuristic algorithms applied to the control and identification of electrical machines, renewable energy and microgrids.