Professor Victor Becerra is currently a Professor of Power Systems Engineering at the School of Energy and Electronic Engineering, University of Portsmouth, UK, where he has been since 2015. He obtained his PhD in Control Engineering from City University of London in 1994. Between 1989 and 1991, he was employed as an electrical engineer at C.V.G. Edelca, Caracas, Venezuela. Between 1994 and 1999 he was a post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Control Engineering Research Centre at City University of London. During the period between 2000 and 2015, he was an academic at the School of Systems Engineering, University of Reading, UK, where he became a Professor of Automatic Control in 2012. His current research interests consider a range of issues related to power systems and smart grids, as well as the methods and applications of automatic control. Professor Becerra is a Fellow of the IET and a Senior Member of the IEEE.