José Calixto Lopes was born in the city of Governador Valadares, MG, Brazil. He graduated in electrical engineering in 2016 and obtained a master's degree in electrical engineering from the Federal University of ABC, Santo André, SP, Brazil in 2020, where he is currently a PhD student. From 2015 to 2017, he worked on research and consulting projects in efficiency, energy planning, and industrial automation. Since 2018, he has been a researcher in the Planning, Operation, and Regulation of Electric Power Systems Group at the Federal University of ABC. His research interests include electric vehicles and electromobility, energy storage, renewable energies, generation, transmission, distribution, and electric power system planning. Lopes has received several national and state awards, including recognition from the Brazilian Association of Energy Conservation Services Companies (ABESCO) for the energy efficiency project presented to the Brazilian Congress on Energy Efficiency and others for his work in entrepreneurship and innovations such as Google Techstar Startups, Hack Town SRS Startup Disruptors, and the Engineering and Entrepreneurship Program of the National Confederation of Industry (CNI). He is an associate member of the IEEE Power and Energy Society and the International Council on Large Electrical Systems (CIGRÉ).