Lucas Frizera Encarnação was born in Vitória, Brazil, on December 27, 1979. He received the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the Federal University of Espírito Santo (2003) and the D.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (2009). He is currently associate Professor at the Electrical Engineering Department from Federal University of Espírito Santo. His current research interests include active filters, static compensators, power quality, smart grids technologies, multilevel converters, inertial control for static converters and model predictive control applied to static converters.