Fernando J. F. Lopes is a senior researcher at the National Laboratory of Energy and Geology (LNEG), Lisbon, Portugal. His research interests include energy markets, renewable energy integration, distributed energy resources, intelligent agents, automated negotiation, and applications of agent-based computer systems. He received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the Technical University of Lisbon. He was a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Liverpool, UK. Recently, he received the title of aggregate in the field of Energy from the Nova University of Lisbon. He has been involved in various R&D projects in the areas of energy markets and power systems in general. He developed an agent-based simulation tool for energy markets called MATREM (for Multi-Agent TRading in Electricity Markets), which has been applied in several projects to help perform experimental studies. He was the editor and main author of a book about electricity markets with increasing levels of renewable generation, published by Springer in 2018. He has more than 100 publications, some of them honored with academic distinctions. He is an editorial board member of the International Journal of Artificial Intelligence. He also acts as an editor of several international conferences and workshops.