Daniel Pinheiro Bernardon is an associate professor at the Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil. He has a bachelor’s in Electric Engineering from the Federal University of Santa Maria (2000), a master’s in Electric Engineering from the Federal University of Santa Maria (2004), and a doctorate in Electric Engineering from the Federal University of Federal de Santa Maria (2007), Brazil. He has experience in Electrical Engineering, with an emphasis on Electric Power Systems, working mainly on the following topics: distributed energy resources, smart grid, operation and planning of distribution systems, system modeling, and optimization.