Luis Serrano-Iribarnegaray was born in 1949. He received the Dipl. Ing. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Bilbao (Spain), in 1971, and the Dr. Ing. degree from the Polytechnic University of Madrid (Spain) in 1978. From 1972 to 1976, he worked in the field of thyristor-controlled dc machines with Allgemeine Elektrizitäts-Gesellschaft (A. E. G.) in Spain and Germany and spent thereafter 15 months conducting research at the Institut für Regelungstechnik in Braunschweig (Germany) under the direction of Prof. Dr. W. Leonhard (Field oriented control). During the period 1982-2019 he has been the Chair for theory and control of electrical machines at the Universitat Politécnica de Valencia (Spain) and spent two months in 1985 as invited professor in the University of Kaiserslautern (Germany). He has been the Scientist responsible in Spain for various international projects supported by the European Union. Since 2019 he has been Emeritus Professor of the Universitat Politécnica de Valencia. He has been married to María José Pardá since 1976 and they have three childreen