Emilio Figueres (S’98–A’00–SM’10) received the M.Sc. degree from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Electrotechnique, d’Electronique, d’Informatique et d’Hydraulique de Toulouse, Toulouse, France, in 1995, and the Dr. Ingeniero Industrial (Ph.D.) degree from the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), Valencia, Spain, in 2001. Since 1996, he has been with the Electronics Engineering Department, UPV, where he is currently a Full Professor and was the Head of the Department from 2008 to 2016. Since 2005, he is responsible for the UPV PhD program in Electronics Engineering. His research interests include modeling and control of power converters, power processing of renewable energy sources, grid connected converters, and power management in electric vehicles. He has co-authored more than 100 papers published in JCR indexed journals and conferences, and holds several patents with industrial companies. He was a co-recipient of the Best Paper Award in the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics in 2012.