Dr. Rafael Zárate-Miñano is a Tenured Associate Professor in the Electrical, Electronic, Automatic, and Communications Engineering department at the University of Castilla–La Mancha. He completed his PhD studies in Electrical Engineering at the University of Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain, in April 2010. His research interests include power system operation and stability, electricity markets, sensitivity analysis, optimization, and numerical methods.