Carlos Meza received a B.Sc. degree in Electronic Engineering from the Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica, an M.Eng. degree in Embedded Systems Design, from the Università della Svizzera Italiana (USI), Switzerland, and a Ph.D. in Automation and Robotics from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, BarcelonaTech (UPC), Spain. In addition, he has been a postdoctoral researcher at the Scuola Universitaria Professionale della Svizzera Italiana (SUPSI), Switzerland, and at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Italy. He is currently an associate professor at the Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica and a guest professor at Hoschschule Anhalt, Germany. His research interests include control theory and photovoltaic and renewable energy systems. Carlos is a senior member of the PES Costa Rica Chapter.