João A. Peças Lopes is Full Professor at Porto University (FEUP) where he teaches in the graduation and post graduation areas. He is presently Associate Director and Coordinator of the TEC4Energy initiative at INESC TEC, one of the largest R&D interface institutions of the University of Porto. His main domains of research are related with large scale integration of renewable power sources, power system dynamics, microgeneration and microgrids, smartmetering and electric vehicle grid integration. He was Chair of the Selection Committee of the public tender that decided on the integration of 1800 MW of wind generation in Portugal, launched by the Portuguese government in 2005. He supervised 40 PhD Thesis. He is author or co-author of more than 500 papers and co-editor and co-author of the book "Electric Vehicle Integration into Modern Power Networks" edited by Springer. He has more than 15.000 citations in Scopus with an h index 51, Scopus. He is a Fellow from IEEE. He is also member of the Power Systems Dynamic Performance Committee of the IEEE PES. He is Editor of the (SEGAN) Sustainable Energy Grids and Networks journal. He was member of the Board of the Smart Energy Lab, a CoLAB in Energy Services. Since 2012 Chair of the REN award committee, Vice-Presidente of the board of the Portuguese Association for Electric Vehicles, Chair of the International Steering Committee of the IEEE Power Tech, member of the Consulting Board of Agência de Energia do Porto (Porto Energy Agency), Member of the General Council of APREN (Portuguese Association for Renewable Energies). He is Honorary member of the editorial board of the IET Energy Conversion and Economics, Associate editor do Journal on Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy and Associate editor of the China Electrotechnical Society Transactions on Electrical Machines and Systems.