Mario Ponce-Silva received a bachelor's electrical engineering degree from the San Luis Potosi Autonomous University (1994), an M.Sc. degree from the CENIDET (1996) and a Ph.D. degree from the CENIDET (1999). Presently, he is a full-time professor and researcher at the CENIDET, and has been since March 1999. His research interests include energy harvesting, electromagnetic launchers, lighting systems, resonant converters and power supplies for ozone generators. On these topics, he has supervised 11 Ph.D. and 49 M.Sc. students. He has five patents and more than 150 papers published in journals, magazines and conferences. He is also an AE of the IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, Energies (MDPI) and the IEEE Journal of Selected and Emerging Topics on Industrial Electronics, as well as a senior member of the IEEE and Member Level II of The National Researchers System in Mexico.