Seleme Isaac Seleme, Jr. received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the Escola Politécnica (USP), Sao Paulo, Brazil, in 1977, the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil, in 1985, and the Ph.D. degree in control and automation from the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG), Grenoble, France, in 1994 He spent sabbatical leaves with the Power Electronics Group, University of California, Berkeley, in 2002, and at LAPLACE Laboratory – University of Toulouse, France, in 2015. He is currently full professor with the Department of Electronic Engineering, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil. His research interests are multilevel converters, electrical drives, control of power electronic converters applied to renewable energy and electro mechanic systems.