Julio J. Melero is an Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering of the University of Zaragoza and currently is the Director of the Joint Research Institute of the Energy and Resource Efficiency of Aragón, ENERGAIA. He completed his PhD studies in Physics at the University of Zaragoza. He has recently led several research projects. Among them, it is worth highlighting the ENSURE project on Ecological Transition in Rural Areas, funded by the Spanish government, and the TWEED project, a Marie Curie Doctoral Network dedicated to the Digitalization of Wind Energy, which will train 12 new PhDs and is funded by the European Union. In addition to these, he has also led more than thirty public and private research projects. He has published more than 60 articles in high-impact scientific journals indexed in the Scopus database, with approximately 1,400 citations, and has an h-index of 16. He has served as a reviewer for around 12 scientific journals and is currently an associate editor of the journal Wind Energy. His research interests include power quality, wind energy, PV systems, and the application of artificial intelligence to problems in renewable energy and power systems.