ROBSON FRANCISCO DA SILVA DIAS received his B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Universidade Federal do Pará, Belem, Brazil, in 2002, and his D.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) in 2008. From 2009 to 2010, he was with the CAPE, University of Toronto, ON, Canada, as a Postdoctoral Fellow. He is currently an Associate Professor at the UFRJ. His research interests include power electronics, FACTS device application, renewable energy resources, real-time simulation, and co-simulation.