FRANCESC GUINJOAN received the Ingeniero de Telecomunicación and the Doctor Ingeniero de Telecomunicación degrees from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain, in 1984 and 1990, respectively, and the Docteur es Sciences degree from the Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France, in 1992. He is a Full Professor at the Departamento de Ingenieria Electrónica, Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros de Telecomunicación de Barcelona, UPC. He has co-authored more than 90 papers in international journals and conference proceedings. Since 2005, he has been managing research project evaluations in the field of electrical engineering as a Member of the Spanish Research Agency (AEI), Ministry for Science, Innovation, and Universities. Since 2014, he has been the Delegate of the UPC and the member of the Supervisory Board of the Knowledge Innovation Community (KIC) Innoenergy, funded by the European Institute of Technology (EIT) of the European Union. His research interests include power electronics modeling and control for renewable energy systems. Dr. Guinjoan was a Guest Co-Editor of the Special Issue on Smart Devices for Renewable Energy Systems of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS, in 2011.