Prof. Youssef ZIDANI was born in 1972. In 1994, he received his Diploma of High School Teachers degree in Electrical Engineering from ENSET (Rabat, Morocco). In 1997 and 2004 he received the MSA and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering and Power Electronics, respectively, from Mohamed V University (Mohammadia School of Engineers, EMI, Rabat). In 2017, he received a Habilitation diploma from Cadi Ayad University. From 1994-2004, he was an Assistant Professor at the High School of Technology (EST, Mohamed 1st University, Oujda). In 2004, he joined the Department of Applied Physics in the Faculty of Science and Technology (FST, Cadi Ayad University, Marrakech) where he is actually a permanent Professor. His research interests are electrical machines, power electronics, and renewable energy. He has published several papers in refereed journals and international conferences and he is a reviewer of several conferences and journals.