Lucian Mihet-Popa (Senior Member, IEEE) was born in 1969. He received his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, his master’s degree in electric drives and power electronics, and his Ph.D. and habilitation degrees in electrical engineering from Politehnica University Timisoara, Romania, in 1999, 2000, 2002, and 2015, respectively. From 1999 to 2016, he worked at Politehnica University Timisoara. He has also worked as a research scientist with Danish Technical University from 2011 to 2014, and with Aalborg University, Denmark, from 2000 to 2002. He held a postdoctoral position with Siegen University, Germany, in 2004. Since 2016, he has been working as a full professor in energy technology with Østfold University College, Norway. He is also the Head of the Research Laboratory “Intelligent Control of Energy Conversion and Storage Systems”. He has been granted and participated in more than 25 international projects. He has been awarded more than ten national research grants. Professor Mihet-Popa has published more than 200 papers in national and international journals and conference proceedings, and fifteen books. His research interests include the modeling, simulation, control, and testing of energy conversion systems; distributed energy resources (DER components and systems, including battery storage systems for electric vehicles, as well as hybrid cars and vanadium redox batteries); and interactive buildings in smart grids.