Daniel Foito received a Dipl. Ing. and an M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal in 1993 and 2002, respectively. He received a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Faculty of Sciences and Technology, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal in 2015. Since 1997 he has been a member of the teaching staff at the Electrical Engineering Department of Superior Technical School of Setúbal – Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal. Presently he is a Adjoint Professor, teaching Power Electronics and Electric Drives. His research interests include renewable energy generation, electrical machines, electric drives, electric vehicle, fault diagnosis and fault tolerant operation.