José Villar received a degree in Electronic Engineering in 1991 and his PhD in 1997 from the Comillas Pontifical University, Madrid. From 1997 to 2017, he was a researcher at the Institute for Research in Technology and Deputy Director of the Institute from 2004 to 2016, Comillas Pontifical University. He was a Professor at the Electronic and Communications Department and also a member of the Doctorate Academic Commission from 2013 to 2017. He is currently a Senior Researcher at INESC TEC (Porto). His areas of interest include the operation and strategic planning of power systems, electric vehicles, renewable generation, distributed generation and smart grids and cities, soft computing, and data mining.