Johann F. Petit was born in Villanueva (La Guajira), Colombia, in 1974. He received the B.Sc. And M.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Universidad Industrial de Santander (UIS), Bucaramanga, Colombia, in 1997 and 2000, respectively. He received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), Madrid, Spain, in 2007. Currently, he is Titular Professor at the Universidad Industrial de Santander (UIS-Colombia) and member of Electrical Power Systems Research Group (Grupo de Investigación en Sistemas Eléctricos-GISEL) at UIS. His research interests include: power quality, power electronics, smart grids, electrical power systems and engineering education.