Federico Martin Ibanez was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1982. He received his B.S. in electric engineering from the National Technological University (UTN), Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 2008 and a Ph.D. in power electronics from the University of Navarra, San Sebastian, Spain, in 2012. From 2006 to 2009, he was part of the Department of Electronics, UTN. From 2009 to 2016, he was part of the Power Electronics Group of Centro de Estudios e Investigaciones Tecnicas de Gipuzkoa. He is currently a Senior Researcher in the Center of Energy Systems, Skoltech, Moscow, Russia. His research interests are in the areas of high-power DC/DC and DC/AC converters for applications that are related to energy storage, supercapacitors, electric vehicles, and smart grids.