Andrés Ortiz Salazar is 67 years old and was born in Lima, Perú. He graduated in Electronic Engineering from the National University of Engineering Lima, Perú. He has a Masters in Electric Engineering (1989) and a Doctorate in Electric Engineering (1994) from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He completes a postdoctorate in Electric Engineering at Tokyo University of Science, SUT, Japan (2000). His research is concentrated on the Electronic Automation of Electrical and Industrial Processes. He has been a teacher at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte since 1994, where he teaches instrumentation, industrial automation, power electronics, machine activation, and automation.