Pedro Eduardo Melín was born in Chillan, Chile, in 1982. He received an Eng. degree in electronic engineering and the M.Sc. and D.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Concepcion, Concepcion, Chile, in 2006, 2010, and 2014, respectively. Since 2013, he has been with the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Bío-Bío, Concepcion, Chile, where he is currently an Associate Professor, teaching electronic applications and digital systems. His research interests lie in voltage-source and current-source converters and their extension to multilevel topologies, including their design, digital control, and the application of these kinds of topologies to ac drives, active power filters, and energy conversion.