Joao Paulo Da Silva CatalaoJoão P. S. Catalão received the M.Sc. degree from the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Lisbon, Portugal, in 2003, and the Ph.D. degree and Habilitation for Full Professor ("Agregação") from the University of Beira Interior (UBI), Covilha, Portugal, n 2007 and 2013, respectively. Currently, he is a Professor at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP), Porto, Portugal, and Researcher at INESC TEC, INESC-ID/IST-UL, and C-MAST/UBI. He was the Primary Coordinator of the EU-funded FP7 project SiNGULAR, a 5.2-million-euro project involving 11 industry partners. He has authored or coauthored more than 570 publications, including 195 journal papers (more than 50 IEEE Transactions/Journal papers), 330 conference proceedings papers, 31 book chapters, and 14 technical reports, with an h-index of 34 and over 4900 citations (according to Google Scholar), having supervised more than 50 post-docs, Ph.D. and M.Sc. students. Prof. Catalão is an Editor of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SMART GRID, an Editor of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SUSTAINABLE ENERGY, an Editor of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON POWER SYSTEMS, and an Associate Editor of the IET Renewable Power Generation. Since May 2017, he is the Corresponding Guest Editor for a Special Section of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL INFORMATICS. He was the recipient of the 2011 Scientific Merit Award UBI-FE/Santander Universities and the 2012 Scientific Award UTL/Santander Totta, in addition to an Honorable Mention in the 2017 Scientific Awards ULisboa/Santander Universities. Moreover, he has won 4 Best Paper Awards at IEEE Conferences. Read More Read Less