Federal University of Santa Catarina,
Santa Catarina, Brazil
Ivo Barbi received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil, in 1973 and 1976, respectively, and the Dr.Ing. degree from the Institut National Polytechnique de Tolouse, France, in 1979. He is the founder of SOBRAEP – the Brazilian Society of Power Electronics (1990), where he currently serves as Honorary President, and was the Chair of the first COBEP – Brazilian Power Electronics Conference (1991). He is currently an Emeritus Professor at UFSC, a permanent faculty member of the Graduate Program in Electrical Engineering (PPGEEL-UFSC), a researcher at UFSC’s Integrated Center for Solar Energy Research, and coordinator of GPEN – the Power Processing Research Group, registered with CNPq. He is a Life Fellow of the IEEE. He served for several years as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, Guest Editor of the Special Section on High-Power Factor Rectifiers (IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, June 1999), and Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics. He is currently an Editor for Scientific Reports in the field of Electrical Engineering. In February 2016, he led the creation of IBEPE – the Brazilian Institute of Power Electronics, and currently serves as its President. He received the IEEE William E. Newell Power Electronics Award in 2020. In 2021, he reached the milestone of 200 Master’s and Ph.D. theses supervised and completed within the PPGEEL program at UFSC.
University of Porto,
Porto, Portugal
Vladimiro Miranda holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (1982) from the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP), Portugal, where he has been a faculty member since 1980 and currently serves as Full Professor in the field of energy systems. From 2000 to June 2018, he was Director (currently titled Executive Board Member) of INESC TEC, a private, non-profit research institute of public utility, recognized as an Associate Laboratory by the Portuguese Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education (MCTES). He remains an active researcher at INESC TEC’s Centre for Power and Energy Systems and currently serves as Associate Director for International Relations.
He is President of INESC P&D Brasil (since 2012) and formerly served as President of INESC Macau, China (1996–1997). He is an International Consultant to institutions including IIT (Madrid, Spain), IEE (National University of San Juan, Argentina), IRESEN (Moroccan Renewable Energy Research Agency), and Green Energy Park, Morocco. He also advises the Portuguese Armed Forces’ Laboratory for Biological and Chemical Defense, the Hydrographic Institute of the Portuguese Navy, the Doctoral Council of UTAD, and the Strategic Council of Forum Oceano.
He was International Advisor to the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Hong Kong (2013–2018), Visiting Researcher at UFSC (2015–2018), and Visiting Professor at UFPA (2005, CAPES fellowship). He previously held the position of Full Professor at the University of Macau (1996–1997).
Professor Miranda has supervised or co-supervised numerous MSc and PhD theses in energy systems across institutions in Argentina, Brazil, Bosnia, China, Croatia, Ecuador, Norway, Portugal, and Sweden. He has served on the boards of spin-off companies from INESC (e.g., RUMOS SA, SmartWatt SA) and consulted for power sector companies and the Portuguese Innovation Agency (ADI). He acts as evaluator for project and fellowship funding agencies such as ANI and FCT (Portugal), and has performed evaluation missions for similar institutions in South Africa, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Croatia, and Norway. He was also a consultant for Argentina’s MinCyT Institutional Evaluation Program.
His expertise lies in power system planning and operation, with emphasis on large-scale integration of conventional and renewable generation and the application of Computational Intelligence. He has published extensively in top-tier journals, especially in IEEE Transactions (h-index: 37, Scopus, March 2021). Recognized as a global expert in Computational Intelligence for Power Systems, he was named IEEE Fellow and received the IEEE PES Ramakumar Family Renewable Energy Excellence Award (2013). He is also part of the IEEE Distinguished Lecturer Program.
Norwegian University of Science and Technology,
Trondheim, Norway
Sigurd Skogestad is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), where he has been a central figure in process systems engineering for over three decades. Internationally recognized as one of the foremost experts in process control, Professor Skogestad’s research focuses on plantwide control, self-optimizing control, model predictive control (MPC), and separation processes. His pioneering contributions to the development of control structures and operational strategies for complex chemical processes have had a major impact on both academic research and industrial practice.
He holds a PhD from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), and has authored over 300 scientific papers and the widely cited textbook Multivariable Feedback Control: Analysis and Design. With an h-index above 75 and more than 25,000 citations, his work is considered foundational in control engineering. He has supervised over 60 PhD students and actively collaborates with both academic institutions and industry, especially within the oil and gas sector and sustainable process design.
Professor Skogestad has received several prestigious awards, including the Nordic Process Control Award and the IFAC Award for Excellence in Process Control. He is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences and frequently serves as a keynote speaker at international conferences.
Univ. Gustave Eiffel,
Versailles, France
Mariana Netto is Tenured Researcher in the Université Gustave Eiffel, France at the COSYS-PICSL Laboratory. She obtained her French Senior diploma HDR in 2013, and her PhD degree in automatic control, in collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, from CentraleSupélec/Paris-Saclay University, France, in 2001. She has also been assistant professor within the Paris-Saclay University for one year before integrating the Université Gustave Eiffel. She is an Electronic and Automatic Control Engineer from the Rio de Janeiro Federal University – Brazil. Among her international research activities, Mariana Netto has led her university in the European Network of Excellence HYCON2 and she is serving as chair of the IFAC Technical Committee 9.2 Systems and Control for Societal Impact, since 2020. She has also contributed to the international scientific community through the IFAC IEEE CPHS (Cyber-Physical & Human Systems) event, having served as IPC co-Chair to its first edition in Paris. And then as General Chair to the IFAC IEEE CPHS 2016, in Florianopolis, Brazil. After this, the IFAC IEEE CPHS 2018 has been held in Miami, US, led by the MIT and NSF, when she has served as member of the Advisory Board and she serves since 2019 as member of the CPHS Steering Committee. Mariana Netto belongs to the roll of honor of the laureates of IFAC France, as recipient of the IFAC Service French Award in 2018 for this work. Her research interests are on linear and nonlinear control and she has been working in nonlinearly parametrized, hybrid and piecewise linear control for improved vehicle’s safety, on intelligent transportation systems and more recently in the control of micro-grids. She believes in the increasing need for interdisciplinary collaboration following the recent enormous technological advances following the world digital revolution.
Federal University of Santa Catarina,
Santa Maria, Brazil
She received her Bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering in 2010, from the Federal University of Santa Maria, UFSM, Brazil. During her undergraduation studies, she worked with wind power at the Power Electronics and Control Research Group, GEPOC, at UFSM. She received her Master and Doctor degrees in 2012 and 2015, respectively, from the same university She received scholarships from the brazilian government agencies CNPq (National Counsel of Technological and Scientific Development) from 2007-2010 as an undergraduation student, from CAPES (Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel) from 2010-2012 during her Master Degree, and from CNPq again, from 2012-2016 during her Doctorate and Post-Doctorate studies. Se was chair of the UFSM IEEE Student Branch and of the UFSM IEEE IAS SB Chapter. She was Professor at the Federal University of Santa Maria, UFSM – Campus Cachoeira do Sul, from 2016 to 2018 . Currently, she is Professor at the Federal University of Santa Maria, UFSM – Campus Santa Maria, researcher at the Power Electronics and Control Group – GEPOC, Permanent Professor at the Graduate Program on Electrincal Engineering – PPGEE at UFSM, and member of the of the IEEE Power Electronics, IEEE Industrial Electronics and IEEE Industry Application Societies, as well as of the Brazilian Society of Power Electronics (Sobraep). Her research interests include control and modulation of static power converters, multilevel converters, power electronics for renewable energies, microgrids and model predictive control.
Univ. Gustave Eiffel, Marne-la-Vallée, France
Versailles, France
Gilney Damm received the bachelor’s degree in electronic engineer from COPPE-Rio de Janeiro Federal University (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in February 1995, the M.Sc. degree from UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1997, the Ph.D. degree from the Supelec/Université Paris Sud, Orsay, France, in 2001, and the Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches from Evry University, Évry-Courcouronnes, France, in 2010. He is currently an Associate Professor with the Laboratory L2S, Paris-Saclay University. His main research interests include the nonlinear control of power systems (SmartGrids-SuperGrid-MicroGrids, applications are in the field of large scale renewable energy integration, multi-terminal HVdc systems, variable speed pumped storage plants, mixed ac/dc grids, smartcities and smartgrids; control of power generators (transient stabilization, frequency and voltage stability, synthetic inertia), synchronization of power networks, microgrids. He is currently partner of the Energy Transition Institute (ITE) Efficacity, where he is leading Scientist of the Urban SmartGrids pole. He is also partner of the ITE SuperGrid. He is Co-Leader of the French research forum on SmartGrids, sub-topic leaderon the France-Singapour network on SmartGrids and partner of the International Associated Laboratory (LIA-CNRS) SmartGrids with Canada and PowerGrids with Brazil. He is a member of the IFAC Technical Committee TC 6.3 Power and Energy Systems and an Associated Editor for the European Journal of Control and the journal Energies.
Norwegian University of Science and Technology,
Trondheim, Norway
Dr. Idelfonso Bessa dos Reis Nogueira is an Associate Professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Department of Chemical Engineering. His research focuses on the integration of artificial intelligence, advanced control strategies, systems optimization, digitalization, and automation to design intelligent and adaptive solutions for modern industrial processes.
He is the creator of the AiP²S² framework—Artificial Intelligence-powered Products, Processes, Scales, and Systems—which outlines four interconnected research pillars: the design of novel products, the development of interpretable and robust AI for process operation, the bridging of fundamental and operational process scales, and the integration of systems for accelerated industrial adaptability.
Dr. Nogueira earned his Ph.D. in Chemical and Biological Engineering from the University of Porto (2018), after completing master’s degrees in Industrial Engineering at the Federal University of Bahia (2016) and in Chemical Engineering at the University of Porto (2012). From 2016 to 2018, he was a visiting Ph.D. researcher at the Department of Automation and Mechanical Engineering at Tampere University of Technology in Finland.
His research spans a wide range of applications in process systems engineering, including advanced process control, optimization, digital twins for dynamic chemical processes, and the integration of AI in complex industrial systems. He also explores emerging areas such as AI-based scent reconstruction and intelligent monitoring frameworks. In parallel, he holds a part-time appointment at the Heritage Science Laboratory in Ljubljana, where he contributes to the development of AI-driven methods and interdisciplinary applications in cultural heritage preservation.
Power Electronics Institute – Federal University of Santa Catarina
Florianópolis, Brazil
Denizar C. Martins (M’87) was born in São Paulo, Brazil, on April 24, 1955. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Florianópolis, Brazil, in 1978 and 1981, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Polytechnic National Institute of Toulouse, Toulouse, France, in 1986.,He is currently a Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering, UFSC. His interest research areas include dc–dc and dc–ac converters, high-frequency soft commutation, power factor correction, and grid-connected photovoltaic systems.
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