Angel de Castro (M’08, SM’21) received M.Sc. and the Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, in 1999 and 2004, respectively. He started as Assistant Professor in the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid in 2003. Then, he moved to the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid in 2006, where he has been Full Professor since 2022. He is the Director of the Hardware and Control Technology Laboratory (HCTLab ) research group. He has published over 40 articles in peer-reviewed journals. His research interests include digital control of switching mode power supplies, field programmable gate arrays, and hardware-in-the-loop.