Dr Diego del Olmo Díaz

Diego del Olmo Díaz was born in Gijon, 1992. He obtained his secondary school graduate in the field of science and technology in 2010 at RIES Jovellanos, Gijon.

He is currently studying Industrial Chemistry degree and Mechanical Engineering degree both in EPI Gijon, University of Oviedo. He has extensive office automation knowledge and he is developing skills in MATLAB software. Also, he has B2 level in English.

His interests are on the field of batteries and materials engineering, in January 2014 he will be working in his degree project which will consist in modelling Li-ion batteries.

Aitor Vázquez Ardura

Aitor Vázquez (S’10) was born in Oviedo, Spain, in 1984.

He received the M.Sc. degree in telecommunication engineering from the University of Oviedo, Gijón, Spain, in 2009, and he is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in the same university.

He became a member of the Power Supply System Group, University of Oviedo, in 2010.

His research interests include modularization techniques applied to bidirectional dc–dc converters for HEV, battery management power supplies, power-factor corrector ac–dc converters and energy recovery systems.

Dr Victor Manuel García

Víctor Manuel García received the M.Sc. Degree and the Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Oviedo. Currently he is Professor in the area of Physical Chemistry.

His initial interest in quantum chemistry (electronic separability and chemical bonding in solids) has led to research on fundamental aspects of applied electrochemistry, such as the quantitative description of thermodynamic (theory of intercalation) and kinetic phenomena (charge transfer mechanisms on interfaces and transport phenomena in bulk) in batteries or electrochemical corrosion cells.

Recently he is working on the electrical, chemical and thermal characterization of high power lithium ion cells with nanophosphate technology (C // LFP) suitable for electric vehicles and he is involved in several research projects on said technology.

Iñigo Hidalgo Cantabrana

Address: c/CAMINO DEL CIERRIN Nº 21 LA FRESNEDA (SIERO) ASTURIAS. Telephone: 0034 647-442-495/ 0034 985-276-307. E-mail: inigocanta@gmail.com. Nationality : Spanish. Date of birt: 18/04/1988. 2006-2008 Field of sciences at the high school of IES Dr. Fleming, Oviedo. 2008/2013 Bachelor of Forestry Engineer at the University of Oviedo. Still I need to pass 11,5 credits. 2011/2012 Bachelor of Forestry Engineer at the Mendel University in Brno (Czech Republic). Erasmus student agreement. 2013 practices program at the HOSCHULE WEIHENSTEPHAN TRIESDORF in Freising (Germany). 2013 Diploma of Forestry engineer by the University of Oviedo. 2009/2010 courses of organic crops and course of endangered species. 2010/ 2011 GIS course. 2011/2012 Landscape Recreology course; Course of Slopes: Stability and Study. For all these courses were given by the University of Oviedo. 4,5 credits per course. PERSONAL SKILLS AND COMPETENCES. English: title of First Certificate of Cambridge (FCE) B2. German: Initial level. User level of Microsoft office. Initial level of GVgis. Initial level of Autocad

Andrea Cobreros Rubín

Andrea Cobreros Rubín was born in Oviedo, 1988. She began studying on surveying in 2006, and in July 2013 she finished in the University of Oviedo as Surveying Engineer, meanwhile she worked in the linear geometric control works in Asturias for three months, developed tasks organizational and administrative in Escuela Politécnica de Mieres for nine months, worked with Assist research team at the University of Oviedo using HDS Laser scanner, in September 2013 she collaborated with the team of archaeologists from the UNED (National University of Distance Education) making for them a three-dimensional model with HDS Laser Scanner Leica, a massive points cloud for have all the information, in the cave of the Collubil, Amieva, Asturias (Spain).

She made about twenty topographic reports to people who need it for a cadastral issue with a classmate. Now, she continues studying in Escuela Politécnica de Mieres.

Daniel Jardon Quiñones

Nationality: Spanish

Date of birth: 16/10/1992

2008/10: High School scientific graduate at Jimena high school in Gijon.

2010/13: currently studying Geomatic and surveying Engineer Degree at University of Oviedo (Mieres faculty).

The academic year 2012/2013 studied abroad at the Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic.

Basic Level QOIs and Autocad.

English level: First certificate of Cambridge, and preparing for advance.

Microssoft Office: User level

Verónica Huerta Valdés

Nationality: Spanish

Date of birth: 13/10/1992

2008/10: High School scientific graduate at IES.

2010/13: currently studying Forest Engineer Degree at University of Oviedo and working on the dissertation about energetic grops (research area of University of Oviedo together with Hunosa).

Basic Level QOIs and Autocad.

Course: Evaluation of Environmental Impact.

Preparing for the First English test.

Office User level.

Covadonga Diego Alonso

Nationality: Spanish

Date of birth: 16/08/1992

2008/10: High School scientific graduate at IES Infiesto (Piloña-Asturias).

2010/13: Currently studying Forest Engineer Degree at University of Oviedo and working on the dissertation about energetic grops (research area of University of Oviedo together with Cogersa).

Basic Level QGIS and Autocad.

Course: Evaluation of Environmental Impact.

Preparing for the First English test.

Office User level.

Edwin Xavier Dominguez

Xavier Dominguez received the Electronic & Automation Engineering Degree at National Polytechnic School in Quito/Ecuador in 2010.

His final career project consisted on performing the Design and Implementation of an Automatic Control and Monitoring system for the water dam level at a 160 MW hydroelectric power plant.

From February 2011 until August 2012, he was a Part-Time Teacher at Universidad Técnica de Ambato (Ecuador) at the Electronic & Communications Department.

There, he was involved in teaching activities regarding to micro-controlled systems, automation and Electrical Fundamentals for Engineering.

During this same period, he also worked as a Technical Coordinator at a SME where he designed and managed energy distribution electrical projects for industries and buildings.

Due to a scholarship given from the Ecuadorian Science and Technology Agency, since September 2012 he has been studying towards the Electrical Energy Conversion and Power System Master Degree at the University of Oviedo, Spain.

His current interests are in the field of renewable energies management, monitoring and control as well as smart-grids and energy efficiency.

Manuel Rubio Revilla

WRE - Workroom on Renewable Energy

Manuel Rubio Revilla studied Industrial Electronics and Automatic degree from 2009 - 2011 in EPI Gijon.

He was awarded with an Erasmus scholarship to study the third academic year at Sheffield University.

During his Erasmus stay he took part in a Robotics project financed by the company National Instruments.

Currently, he has focused his studies in Energetic Efficiency and is involved in the 'Grid-connected wind microinverter for a PMG based Savonious-Gorlov turbine' project.

Deepak Soorenahalli Ninganna

Master EECPS (Electrical Energy Conversion and Power Systems)

Educational Qualification:

Post-Graduation:
Name of the University: University of Oviedo, Spain
Discipline: MSc in Electrical Energy Conversion and Power Systems
Expected year of completion: 2014

Graduation

Name of the University: Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belgaum, India
Discipline: B.E in ELECTRONICS and COMMUNICATION
Year of completion: 2010
Aggregate percentage: 74.57%

Higher Secondary and Secondary

Completed Pre University Course in the year 2006 in KLE’s IND PU College, Bangalore with 87.33%
Completed SSLC in the year 2004 in Sri Vani High School, Bangalore with 92.96%

Trainings:

5 month IT training from Education and Research Department, Infosys Ltd., Mysore, India

Pablo Priesca

Head of CTIC foundation

He is Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology from the University of Oviedo.

In the 90s he worked on the design and management of European projects related to the information society and regional development.

His professional career has been linked to the development of the Internet and the Information and Communication Technologies for over 20 years.

He was director of a Training Centre in New Technologies (Aviles, Asturias-Spain), where he led numerous projects in the field of the Information Society.

He was responsible for strategic plans for the development of the Information Society. He was responsible of the Information Society department at FICYT (Foundation for Innovation, Science and Technology of Asturias-Spain).

He was expert Advisor for the innovation and technological development programs.

He was Manager of the project that promoted the creation of the W3C Office in Spain (currently located at CTIC’s premises).

He was a member of the W3C Advisory Committee.

He is member of the Impartiality Committee of AENOR; Secretary of the International Foundation GKPF (Global Knowledge Partnership Foundation); Member of the Expert Group of Technology Based Firms of Asturias; Member of the Asturian Science, Technology and Innovation Council; Author of several articles and papers on human resources, territorial and technological development; Co-author of books such as “i-Economy”, “ICT Economy, innovation and competitiveness”.

He designed the strategy and the establishment of the Technology Centre, where he is currently General Director (CTIC).

Hilario López García

Dr López García is Professor in the in area of Systems and Automation Engineering at the University of Oviedo.

He is an Industrial Engineer (University of Oviedo) since 1985 and since 1989 he has the PhD degree in Industrial Engineering, obtained in the same university.

Linked to the Electrical, Electronic, Computers and Control Engineering Department (DIEECS) since 1983 and incorporated since 1986 as a professor at the University of Oviedo, where he has remained until today, lecturing in different courses at the Polytechnic School of Engineering of Gijón (EPI-GIJON) and Technical School of Mining in Oviedo, and various doctoral and master courses.

He is the author of numerous publications among which books and book chapters for publishers Springer, Elsevier Science and European Commission Technical Steel Research Publications Office.

He has also published numerous articles in national and international journals as Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Bioresource Technology, Environmental Modeling & Software (Elsevier), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (Springer-Verlag) and Annual Review in Automatic Programming (Pergamon).

Dr López García has been director of 6 doctoral theses, 47 Degree and Master Thesis and 12 doctoral research works.

He has directed several international projects of ECSC Steel Research Programme and he also has collaborated in a lot of works as a researcher.

He has participated in several national projects funded and research contracts with companies and government, both as project manager and researcher.

He has presented 60 papers and presentations at international conferences, and he also has participated in several national meetings.

He is a member of the Spanish Committee of the International Federation of Automatic Control (CEA-IFAC).

He also is a member of IUTA (Institute of Industrial Technology of Asturias), evaluator of National Assessment Agency (ANEP) and member of “Colegio oficial de Ingenieros Industriales de Asturias y León” (COIIAL).

He has held various management positions at both the School of Industrial Engineering of Gijón and Oviedo University, highlighting its diverse membership degree evaluation committees for the development of the European Higher Education Area.

He belongs to several national Engineering Committees and he is member of Expert Panel for the COTEC Annual Report about technological innovation.

Today is the Head of the Polytechnic Engineering School of Gijón (EPI-GIJON).

Eduardo Alvarez

Since September 2013 he is Assistant Professor at the Polytechnic School of Mieres (UPM-SPAIN).

Eduardo was Director Research & Development CTIC foundation until September 2013.

Eduardo Álvarez received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Oviedo, Spain, in 2010 and the Master in Business Administration degree from the Instituto Empresa, Madrid Spain, in 2005.

He was head of R&D&I Department of CTIC Technological Centre.

For the last ten years, he has been conducting research projects in the area of information technologies applied to industry at national and European levels.

He is also associate professor in the Oviedo University and Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED).

His research interest is focused in the area of the development of embedded systems applied to internet of things, advanced control for industry applications and smart energy-grids.

In these topics he has several published scientific papers.

Manuel Rico-Secades

Manuel Rico-Secades was born in Oviedo, Spain, in 1961. He received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Industrial Engineering from the University of Oviedo in 1986 and 1989, respectively. Since 1986, he has been with the Electrical and Electronic Department, University of Oviedo, where he is currently a Full Professor.

His research interests include Industrial Electronics, Energy Conversion and Power Electronics, especially Resonant Converters, Electronics Ballast, Discharge Lamp Modeling, DC-to-DC Converters, Power Factor Correction Topologies and Industrial Control.

He is author of over 160 papers in journals and international conference proceedings and he has participated in over 20 research projects and about 15 contracts for technology transfer to enterprise. Also, he is the co-author of five Spanish patents Spanish and he has participated in the development of 10 industrial products marketed today.

He was adviser for more than 100 Degree and Master Thesis and doctoral supervisor for 10 PhD works. Dr. Rico-Secades is a recipient of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society Meritorious Paper Award for 1996.

From 2008 to 2010 he was the R&D Management Director of the Vice-chancellor for Research in the University of Oviedo. He was member of the team for the development of the Campus of International Excellence Project of the University of Oviedo.

Professional activity: Since 1986 he is member (number 735) of “Colegio oficial de Ingenieros Industriales de Asturias y León” and since 1992 he is also Member (number 0530493) of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and since 2012 Senior Member of the same institution.

His Hobbies are Family (married with two daughters), Athletics (CAO athletic club membership), Sailing (yacht license- “Patrón de yate” in Spanish, Reading (history books), Music (all types) and Photography.

A more detailed CV can be obtained in this page (link)

Detail about publications can be obtained here ( link )

Arantza Ruiz

Diploma in business management (Deusto University). Diploma in European Projects Management (Institute of European Trade and Technology).

Master of Electronic Commerce and eBusiness (Polytechnic University of Catalonia).

She has worked as Project Officer at CTIC Foundation since 2004, where she has been involved in planning, designing, writing, managing, monitoring and the evaluation of transnational EU-funded projects.

She has collaborated in supporting economic management of European projects, both in budgeting and in the subsequent economic monitoring and financial justification.

She has also wide experience in the coordination and organization of awareness-raising events and conferences.

María José Suárez

María José Suárez received her Ph.D. degree from the University of Oviedo, Spain, in 2012 with the investigation of Title: “Numerical Analysis of Solar Passive Systems in Buildings”.

She has 5 articles publised in peer-reviewed international journals, 1 book chapter and 7 conference proceedings.

She worked seven years as researcher in Uie3 in Department of Renewable Energy, CIEMAT (Madrid, Spain) and in Department of Energy at the University of Oviedo.

At present she is responsible of Smart Energy in R&D Department of CTIC Foundation, Gijón, Spain.

Victor Pelaez

Víctor Peláez has been a researcher in the R&D department at Fundación CTIC since 2005.

Prior to that, he was involved research projects at the University of Oviedo (Spain) for three years.

His current research interests include: architectures and middleware for device integration in smart environments, ambient assisted living environments and context information management.
He has published scientific papers in the areas of ambient intelligence, smart homes and user interfaces.

As part of his research activities, he is also a member of working groups promoted by Spanish and international associations such as W3C.

He holds a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Oviedo (Spain) and is currently pursuing his Ph.D. at the same university.

Luis Polo

Bachelor's degree in Spanish Philology at the University of Oviedo, Luis Polo Paredes joined the R&D+i Area at CTIC Foundation in March 2005.

Currently, he coordinates the activity of the Semantic Technologies Unit within the R&D+i Area at CTIC Foundation.

He works in the international group of Rule Interchange Formal of the W3C and in the Web Evolution group of the INES platform.

He has also published several scientific papers in books, journals and conferences related to semantic technology.

He is one of the authors of the SIOC technology specification.

Luis Polo is currently undertaking a PhD at the University of Oviedo in the Faculty of Philosophy and has published several articles on general linguistics in related magazines.

Javier Rodriguez

Javier Rodríguez Escolar holds an MsC degree in Computer Science (2009, University of Oviedo) and is now developing his PhD Thesis in the field of declarative approaches for definition of context-aware mobile web applications.

Javier is the Manager of the Device Independence and Mobility Unit in the R&D department of CTIC Foundation, where he has been developing his research career since 2007.

He is specialized in the creation of multi-device applications and service.

Rodrigo García

Rodrigo García Acevedo received his M.Sc. in Computer Engineering from the Polytechnic School of Engineering of the University of Oviedo, Spain, where he is currently pursuing his Ph.D.

He also holds a master in innovation and business development at the same university.
He is currently working in the R&D Department of the CTIC Foundation in Gijon, Spain, where he is involved in IT research projects at National and European levels.

As part of his activity in CTIC Foundation he has taken part in several working groups, both at national level in platforms like INES, and at international level in several W3C Working Groups.

His research experience is related to the creation of industry-oriented systems using technologies like RFID and computer vision. He also collaborates with the Computer Engineering research group of the University of Oviedo in the fields of computer performance engineering as well as distributed and Internet computing systems.

Brendan Doyle

HND in Marketing at Bristol Polytechnic, in European Integration from the London School of Economics and European Affairs at the University of Aberystwyth.

In 1974 he joined the Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Navigation of Oviedo as Head of International Relations and European Projects, taking responsibility until the end of 2003 of relations with the European Union, seeking financing for the design, development and management of projects funded by the European Union and other bodies, participating in over 50 projects in Europe,Russia, Palestine and China.

He has also been Advisor to the European Chamber Network (Eurochambres), the Superior Council of Chambers of Commerce in Spain, the Administrative Unit of the European Social Fund and the Eurexcter Network.
At the end of 2003 to 2007, he joined the Asturian Federation of Municipalities and the Asturian Network for Rural Development, as Director of the Department for International Relations with the European Union and acting as the Head of International Municipal Relations and participating in the creation of cooperation networks and partnerships, promoting the creation and development of strategies and projects between municipalities of Asturias and other regions and countries.

He was responsible for the Office of the European Union "Europe Direct".

He has also participated in the Program Leader and Proder, promoting entrepreneurship initiatives and development.

In 2007 he joined CTIC as Manager for Institutional and International Relations, and later also as Head of the Development Cooperation Program.

Marta Tamargo

Marta Tamargo manages the Administrative/Financial and Human Resources Area at CTIC Foundation since 2004.

She has a degree in Economics, specialty in Accounting and Audits by the University of Oviedo, where she has also completed a Masters in Business Administration and Management.

She is also the secretary of the Board and Executive Committee of CTIC Foundation since 2005.

She was previously managing/financial director at Oviedo Chamber of Commerce and auditor at the Asturian firm Velasco y Pedregal Auditors.

She has over 14 years experience working in private non-profit entities and she has been involved in the definition and implementation of numerous national and international projects in various fields.

Jorge García

Jorge García (S’01, M’05, SM’12) was born in Madrid, Spain, in 1975.

He received the M. Sc. and Ph. D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Oviedo, Spain, in 2000 and 2003 respectively.

In December 1999, he joined the Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department, at the University of Oviedo, where he's currently working as a Professor, teaching several matters related to Power and Industrial Electronics.

He currently develops his research activities in two complementary research teams, the ce3i2 -Efficient Energy Conversion, Industrial Electronics and Lighting- and the LEMUR -Lab for Enhanced Microgrids Unbalance Research- both at the University of Oviedo, working on the development of power electronic systems for renewable generation systems, electronic switching power supplies, lighting electronics and digital control for power electronics, and power electronics for sustainable transportation.

His research interests include power electronics for renewable generation and sustainable transportation applications, bidirectional converters, dc/dc converters and PFC stages, switching mode power supplies, modeling of light sources, inverters and igniters for HID lamps, electronic drivers for High Brightness LEDs, etc.

Dr. García is co-author of more than thirty journal papers and more than sixty international conference papers in power and industrial electronics

Antonio Calleja

Antonio J. Calleja (S´96-A´98-M´04).

Was born in Leon, in 1964.

He received the B. Sc., M.Sc.,and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Oviedo, Gijón, Spain, in 1987, 1995, and 2000 respectively.

He is with the University of Oviedo, where he was Assistant Professor from 1995 to 2001 and has been an Associate Professor since 2002.

His Research interest areas include Hihg frequency electronic ballast, discharge lamps modeling, power-correction topologies, industrial control system and low power inverter grid connection topologies.

Emilio López

Emilio López Corominas (M’97) was born in Oviedo, Spain, in 1965.

He received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Oviedo, Spain, in 1992 and 1999, respectively.

From 1993 to 2001, he was an Assistant Professor with the Electrical and Electronic Department of the University of Oviedo, where since 2001 he has been Associate Professor.

His research interests include electronic systems for lighting and renewable energy systems, high-frequency electronic ballasts, discharge lamp modeling, electronic drivers for high-brightness LEDs, high-frequency switching converters, power factor correction converters, industrial control systems, and digital control for power electronics.

Jesús Cardesín

Jesús Cardesín (S´01-A´03-M´04) was born in Oviedo, Spain, in 1970.

He received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Oviedo, Gijón, Spain, in 1995 and 2002, respectively.

In 1999, he joined the Electrical and Electronic Department, University of Oviedo, where he was an Assistant Professor from 1999-2007, and has been an Associate Professor since 2007.

His current research interests include industrial electronics and power electronics, especially resonant converters, electronic ballast, discharge lamp modeling, DC-DC converters, power factor correction topologies and LED lighting.

Javier Ribas

Javier Ribas (S’97, M’04, SM’12) was born in Milwaukee, U.S., in 1971.

He received the M.Sc. and PhD degrees in Industrial Engineering both from the University of Oviedo, Spain, in 1995 and 2001 respectively.

Since 1996 he has been working within the Department of Electrical Energy of the University of Oviedo where he is currently an Associate Professor.

He is an active member of the Efficient Energy Conversion, Industrial Electronics and Lighting research group (ce3i2 group) of the University of Oviedo.

His research interests include electronic lighting systems, modeling of discharge lamps, solid state lighting, switched-mode power supplies and high-power-factor rectifiers.

Dr. Ribas is co-author of more than twenty journal papers and more than seventy international conference papers in industrial and power electronics.

Juan Carlos Campo

Juan Carlos Campo was born in Gijón, Spain, in 1970. He received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Oviedo, Gijon, Spain, in 1995 and 2000, respectively.

Currently, he is an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Oviedo. His current research interests include smart sensors and signal conditioning.

He is author of more than twenty journal papers and more than seventy international conference papers in instrumentation and measurement and in power quality.

Daniel García

Born in 1987, Asturias, Spain. He received the B.Sc. degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Oviedo, Gijon, Spain, in 2009.

At present he is finishing the M.Sc. in Industrial Engineering in the University of Oviedo.

He has been working in Ce3i2's group since 2009.

Nowadays he works as an associate to the project as technical support designing power electronics systems for several projects, programming FPGAs, microcontrollers and renewable energy system prototypes.

Nelo Huerta Medina

He received the M.Sc. in computer engineering in December 2012 from University of Oviedo, Asturias, Spain.
He worked for the Enerlight project as scholar while preparing his Final Project for M.Sc. in Computer Engineering.
He has been working in Ce3i2 group since December 2012 for the Enerlight project as technical staff.

B.Sc. in Computer Engineering with the University of Oviedo in 2009.
M.Sc. in Computer Engineering with the University of Oviedo in 2012.
Technical staff in DIECCS since november 2012.
Web developer with several projects made.
Expert in Visual Studio programming.
Electronics and Industrial systems enthusiast.
Developer of this site.
Contact: nelohuerta@gmail.com

David Gacio

David Gacio (S’08, M’13) was born in Gijon, Spain, in 1983.

He received the M.Sc. Degree and the PhD degree (with honours) in Electrical Engineering from the University of Oviedo, Spain, in December 2007, and April 2013, respectively.

Since 2008, he has been a Researcher and Lecturer at the Department of Electrical, Electronics, Computers, and Systems Engineering of the University of Oviedo.

Dr. Gacio is the primary author or co-author of sixteen journal and twenty-seven international conference papers in power and industrial electronics and electronic lighting.

He has also received the best paper award of the 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics, ISIE 2009, and is the holder of one Spanish patent.

He is member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), where he collaborates as an IEEE Journal and Conference paper reviewer.

His research interests include power factor correction topologies, electronic ballasts, LED dimming techniques, power converter modelling, LED modelling, and solid state lighting.

Pablo Quintana

Pablo José Quintana Barcia was born in Spain in 1987.

He received the B.S degree in electronics engineering and the M.S.degree in Electrical Energy Conversion and Power Systems from the University of Oviedo, Gijón, Spain, in 2011 and 2013, respectively.

He is currently doing the Ph.D. degree in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Computers supported by the research group: Efficient Energy Conversion, Industrial Electronics and Lighting (ce3i2 group) .

His research interests include modeling and control of islanded and grid-connected converters, control and development of microgrids, power quality and integration of renewable energies in lamposts in order to have autonomous streetlamps.

Currently working in his PhD thesis: Systems of high efficiency lighting with generation capacity and energy storage, autonomous operation and supply power to the grid (ENERLIGHT project)

Ramón Díaz

Ramon E. Diaz (S’10) was born in Oviedo, Asturias, Spain, in 1960.

He received the B.Sc. and M.Sc.degrees in 1983 and 2007, respectively, from the University of Oviedo, Gijón, Spain, where he is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree (with the R&D ce3i2 Group).

Since 2008, he has been with the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Oviedo.

His research interests include modeling of discharge lamps and electronic lighting systems.

Mikel Jaureguizar

EXPERIENCE
General Manager - Gonzalez Soriano, S.A. - September 2007 – Present.
Deputy Manager - Gonzalez Soriano S.A. - January 2003 – July 2007.
Technical Manager - Gonzalez Soriano S.A. -June 1994 – January 2003.

EDUCATION
ESADE Business School - Master, Executive Education - 2008 – 2008
Universidad de Oviedo - Engineer, Electronics - 1985 – 1992

Lurdes Alvarez

Lourdes Alvarez has been working as a Research Engineer at Normalux since 2004.

She has a Degree in Electronics by the University of Oviedo and two Masters in Project Management and Process Control, Industrial Electronics and Electrical Engineering.

She has also worked as R&D Manager at TEKOX, and as a Research Engineer in the Power Electronics Department at ALCATEL.

She is the main author or coauthor of eleven international conference papers on power electronics. and coauthor of an European patent.

She has been involved in numerous national and international SPRIT projects in the electronics field.

Her interests areas include topologies for improving efficiency in power converters for telecommunications, high frequency electronic ballasts and control methods for thermosolar CCPs Plants.

José Marcos Alonso

J. Marcos Alonso (S'94, M'98, SM’03).

He received the M. Sc. Degree and Ph. D. both in electrical engineering from the University of Oviedo, Spain, in 1990 and 1994 respectively.

Since 2007, he has been appointed as full Professor at the Electrical Engineering Department of the University of Oviedo.

Prof. Alonso is co-author of more than three hundred journal and conference publications.

His research interests include electronic ballasts, LED power supplies, power factor correction and switching converters in general.

He was supervisor of eight Ph.D. Thesis and he is the holder of seven Spanish patents.

Prof. Alonso has been awarded with the Early Career Award of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society in 2006.

He was honoured with the University of Oviedo Electrical Engineering Doctorate Award for 1996.

He also holds three IEEE paper awards.

Since 2002 he serves as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics.

He has been Co-Guest Editor of two special issues in lighting applications published in the IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics (2007) and IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (2012) and has co-organized several conference special sessions.

He also serves as secretary of the IEEE IAS Industrial Lighting and Display Committee (ILDC).

He has been elected as Member-at-Large of the IEEE IAS Executive Board for the term 2013-2014.

He is also member of the European Power Electronics Association and he belongs to the International Steering Committee of the European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications (EPE), where he has collaborated as topic co-chair since 2007.

George Zissis

Full professor Toulouse 3 University (France).

Professor Honoris Causa Saint Petersbourg state University (Russian Federation).

Born in Athens in 1964, has graduated in 1986 from Physics department of University of Crete in general physics.

He got his MSc and PhD in Plasma Science in 1987 and 1990 from Toulouse 3 University (France).

His primary area of work is in the field of Light Sources Science and Technology.

He is especially interested in the physics of electrical discharges used as light sources; system and metrology issues for solid-state lighting systems; normalization and quality issues for light sources; impact of lighting to energy, environment, quality of life, health and security; interaction between light source and associated power supply; illumination and lighting.

He is director of “Light & Matter” research group of LAPLACE that enrols 20 researchers.

For the period 2007-2011 he was deputy director of “LAPLACE” laboratory.

He won in December 2006 the 1st Award of the International Electrotechnical Committee (IEC) Centenary Challenge for his work on normalization for urban lighting systems (in conjunction with IEEE, IET and the Observer).

In 2009 he won the Energy Globe Award for France and he got the Fresnel Medal from the French Illuminating Engineering Society.

Marco Dalla Costa

Marco A. Dalla Costa (S’03, M’09) was born in Santa Maria, Brazil, in 1978. He received the B.S. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from the Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil, in 2002 and 2004, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree (with honors) in electrical engineering from the University of Oviedo, Gijón, Spain, in 2008.

From 2008 to 2009 he was Associate Professor at the Universidade de Caxias do Sul, Brazil. Since 2009 he is Associate Professor at the Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil.

Dr. Dalla Costa is author of more than 30 journal papers and more than 60 international conference papers.

He received the 2nd Prize Paper Award of the 2005 IEEE Industry Applications Society Meeting, Production and Application of Light Committee, and is holder of 2 Spanish patents.

He also serves as reviewer for several IEEE Journal and Conferences in the field of power electronics.

His research interests include dc/dc converters, power factor correction stages, dimming systems, high-frequency electronic ballasts, discharge-lamp modeling, electronic starters for high-intensity-discharge lamps, light-emitting-diode systems, and renewable energy systems.

Francisco Azcondo

Francisco J. Azcondo (S'90, M'92, SM’00). He received the M.Sc. Degree from the Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain and Ph.D. from the University of Cantabria, Spain, both in electrical engineering, in 1989 and 1993 respectively.

From 1990 to 1993 he was R & D engineer at the company Time Frequency and Electronics and assistant professor at the TEISA Department of the University of Cantabria.

From 1993 to 2012 he is an Associate Professor of the same department, obtaining a tenured position in 1995. In 2012 he became Full Professor. In spring and summer 2004 and 2010 he has been (and will be) visiting researcher at the ECEE Dept. University of Colorado at Boulder (USA) where he was appointed as special member from spring 2004 to fall 2006. In summer 2007 he was visiting researcher at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto (Canada).

Prof. Azcondo has co-authored more than ninety international conference and journal papers and thirty papers in national (Spanish) conferences in the areas of industrial electronics, power electronics, industry applications and circuit and systems. His research interests include switched-mode power supplies: design, modeling and digital control, resonant converters, power factor correction stages, electronic ballast for high intensity discharge (HID) lamps, discharge lamp modeling, control of gaseous discharges, design of power supplies for onsite electrical discharge machining (EDM) and arc welding applications. He was the advisor of four Ph.D. Thesis in the field of power electronics. He is co-author of three Spanish and one European patents. March 2012, Co-editor of the Special Section Modern ballast technology and lighting applications IEEE Trans. on Industrial Electronics. Author of the chapter "Power Supplies" del Handbook on Industrial Electronics 2nd Ed. (Taylor and Francis Group, LLC, 2011).

Prof. Azcondo has received two best session paper awards in 2001 and 2002 IECON conferences is co-author of a paper that received the third prize paper award of the 2007 IEEE Industry Applications Society Meeting, Production and Application of Light Committee. He is among the Associate Editors of the Trans. on Industrial Electronics recognized for his work in increasing the publication impact factor. He also received a High Quality Paper award at PCIM Europe 2007.

He is an active member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), where he usually serves as transactions paper reviewer, conference session chairman, among other positions. Since December 2005 he serves as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics in the field of single phase converters. From Oct. 2002 to Sept. 2005 he has been Secretary of the Spanish IES – PELS Joint Chapter and he is the Chapter Coordinator for the period Sept. 2008 to July 2011. The Chapter received the Best Chapter Award in 2010. Guest Co-Editor Special Section on Modern Ballast Technology and Lighting Applications. IEEE Trans. on Industrial Electronics 2012.

A more detailed CV can be obtained in this page (link)

Manuel González

Manuel González lives in La Coruña.

He received the M. Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Burgos, in 1999.

Nowadays, he works as Northwest Sales Manager for JUNG Electro Ibérica, SA.

He has been performing various tasks related to automated installations in homes and buildings since 2000.

As Trainer and specialist in KNX estandar he is interested in new technologies applied to energy saving and accesibility in accessibility in urban and residential environments.

Fernando Las Heras

Fernando Las-Heras (M'86, SM’08) received the M.S. degree in 1987 and the Ph.D. degree in 1990, both in Telecommunication Engineering, from the Technical University of Madrid (UPM).

From 1988 to 1990, he was a National Graduate Research Fellow. From 1991 to 2000 he held a position of Associate Professor at the Department of Signal, Systems and Radiocommunications of the UPM.

From December 2003 he holds a Full-Professor position at the University of Oviedo where he has been Vice-dean for Telecommunication Engineering at the Technical School of Engineering at Gijón from 2004 to 2008.

From 2001 he heads the research group Signal Theory and Communications TSC-UNIOVI at the Dept. of Electrical Engineering of the University of Oviedo.

He was Visiting Lecturer at the National University of Engineering in Peru in 1996, Visiting Researcher at Syracuse University, New York, in 2000, and short term Visiting Lecturer at ESIGELEC in France since 2005.

From 2005 he holds the Telefónica Chair ICTs applied to Environment and Climate Change in the University of Oviedo and from 2010 he is member of the Science, Technology and Innovation Council of Asturias, Spain.

He has authored over 300 technical journal and conference papers in the areas of antenna design, the inverse electromagnetic problem with application to diagnostic, measurement and synthesis of electromagnetic sensors, propagation, microwave to THz imaging and localization.

Rubén Muñiz

Rubén Muñiz was born in 1973 in Gijón, SPAIN.

He finished his studies of Computer Science Engineering in 1997 and his Ph.D. from the University of Oviedo in 2003.

He has been working as a lecturer at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Oviedo since 1998 and he also has ten years of experience in the field of home automation.

Being a registered KNX partner, he has been involved in several automation projects and also has developed applications for mobile platforms to control KNX installations.

David Expósito

Metria is an innovative company specialized in close-range photogrammetry services and products based on proprietary technology, a field in which it is already considered as a lead reference at spanish national level.

Juan Manuel Lopera

Juan Manuel Lopera (M’96) was born in Avilés, Spain, in 1966.

He received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. negrees in electrical engineering From the Universidad de Oviedo, Gijón, Spain, in 1990 and 1994, respectively.

He is currently an Associate Professor at the Universidad de Oviedo.

His research interests are metals industry applications, wireless sensors and energy harvesting.

He is currently the Technical Committee Papers Review Chair of the IEEE-IAS Metals Committee.

Marta Valledor Llopis

Marta Valledor Llopis received her MSc degree in Naval Radioelectronics from the University of Cadiz in 1992 and the Ph.D. from the University of Oviedo in 2006.

She currently works as an associate professor at the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department of the University of Oviedo.

Her research interests include instrumental design, environmental monitoring and optical sensors.

Rafael Pinto

Rafael Adaime Pinto was born in Santa Maria, Brazil, in 1984.

He received the B.S., M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil, in 2007 (with honors), 2008 and 2012, respectively.

Since 2009, he has been with the Colégio Técnico Industrial de Santa Maria (CTISM/UFSM) as a Professor.

He is researcher of GEDRE - Intelligence in Lighting since 2002.

His main areas of interest include: intelligent lighting, electronics ballast, DC/DC converter, and light-emitting-diode (LEDs).

Bor Yann Liaw

Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, 1988

M.S., Chemistry, University of Georgia, 1982

B.S., Chemistry, National Tsing-Hua University, 1977

MAIN RESEARCH LINES

Battery and Fuel Cell R&D
-Bio-Fuel Cells, Electrochemical in situ characterizations, Micro-power sources Fundamentals and Bioengineering of Enzymatic Fuel Cells (2003 - present.
-Participated in an AFOSR funded MURI project (2005 - 2010).
-Participated in an NGA/CIA funded IC Postdoctoral Fellow Research Program (2005 - 2009).
-Battery life cycle evaluation, analysis, diagnosis, and prognosis (1999 - present).
-In situ, non-destructive, transient kinetic measurements, techniques, and characterizations. Incremental capacity analysis, spectroscopic imaging ellipsometry, thin film porosimetry (2004 - present).
-Dynamic battery modeling and simulation and experimental validation (1996 - present)
-Advanced battery evaluation (1995 - present)
-Advanced rapid charging algorithm development (1997 - 2003).
-Solid Oxide Fuel Cells.
-NEDO International Joint Research project on “preparation of zirconia of enhanced oxygen conduction via interface processing” (1994 - 1997).
-Solid Oxide Fuel Cells, Thin tetragonal zirconia films as solid electrolytes (1993 - 1995).

Renewable Energy Technologies
-Electric energy storage and management (2003 - present).
-Solar and wind power generation forecasting (2008 - present).

Electric Drive Systems
-Electric hybrid vehicle testing, data collection and analysis (1994 - present).
-EV-Ready State and Hyundai Santa Fe e-SUV demonstration, data collection, driving cycle and battery performatnce analyses (1998 - 2003).
-DARPA EHV National Data Center, collecting and managing data collected from seven national consortia on electric vehicle testing and demonstrations (1994 - 1997).

A detailed CV of Dr Bor Yann Liaw can be obtained in this page (link)

Ray-Lee Lin

Ray-Lee Lin (SM’02) received his B.S. and M.S. degrees both in electrical engineering from Tatung University (formerly Tatung Institute of Technology), Taipei City, Taiwan, in 1986 and 1988, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (VA Tech), Blacksburg, VA, USA, in 2001.

From 1988 to 1994, he was with the Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology (CSIST), Ministry of National Defense, Taiwan, as a research and development specialist working to design and develop servo-actuator control systems, including servo-motor and servo-hydraulic control systems.

From 2000 to 2002, he was employed by GE Lighting in Cleveland, Ohio, USA, as an electronics eesign engineer working to design and develop cost-effective, high-performance electronic ballasts for HID and fluorescent lamps.

Since August 2002, he has been with the Department of Electrical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Tainan City, Taiwan. Currently, he is a professor at NCKU.

His main research interests include power converters, power factor correction, soft-switching techniques, motor drives, motor design, piezoelectric transformer applications, and lighting applications.

He holds 19 Taiwan patents and one USA patent.

Dr. Lin received 2006 Prize Paper Award from the Technical Committee of Industrial Lighting and Display, IEEE Industry Applications Society.

He was also rewarded with the Outstanding Paper Award and the Advisor Award by Taiwan Power Electronics Conference in 2007 and 2008.

Besides, he received the K. T. Li Gold Medal Award, NCKU, in Nov. 2007.

Dr. Lin has served as an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics since 2002.

He is a registered professional engineer in the Commonwealth of Virginia, USA.

A detailed CV of Dr Ray-Lee Lin can be obtained in this page (link)

Francisco Trinidad

Doctor in Electrochemistry at the University of Madrid, joined Tudor Group (now Exide Technologies) in 1977 and served as Development Director for the Industrial division in Azuqueca (Spain) and Soest (Germany), then Director R&D laboratories in France and Spain.

In the actual position, he is responsible for Research and Development of new automotive products in the Exide European division.

Author of about 60 papers and presentations on battery technology and more than 20 patents. Spanish native, he also speaks French and English.

Recently he was nominated as battery expert for the European Commission to evaluate projects inside the 7th Framework program and is acting as the Exide representative for advanced batteries in Eurobat association and Green Car initiative.

Juan Carlos Viera

Juan Carlos Viera Pérez was born in Havana (Cuba) in 1969.

He received the M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Havana (ISPJAE) in 1992 and the Ph.D. (with honors) from the University of Oviedo, Spain in 2003.

From 1992 to 1997 he works at the Electrical Engineering Department of the University of Havana (ISPJAE), first as an instructor professor and since 1997 as an associate professor.

From 1998 to 2001 he was scholar fellow in the Battery Test Laboratory of the University of Oviedo supported by AECI (Spanish Agency for International Cooperation).

From 2001 to present he is associate professor at the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department of the University of Oviedo.

From 2006 to 2007 he spent one year as invited professor at the Electrochemical Power Systems Laboratory (Hawaiian Natural Energy Institute) from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA.

The main research activities of professor Viera are related with advanced battery technologies (NiCd, NiMH, Li technologies), focusing in the design of battery test benches, electrical and chemical characterization under standard/stressful conditions, thermal behavior, efficient fast-charging methods and battery management systems. At present his experience is being applied into the electric car field using LFP traction batteries.

Professor Viera has collaborated and participates with several projects related with advanced battery technologies and their applications, especially in electric vehicles. He has leaded different projects with national companies.

He is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) since 2001.

Manuela González

Manuela González Vega was born in León (Spain) in 1968. She received the M.Sc. and the Ph.D. (with honors) degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Oviedo, Spain, in 1992 and 1998, respectively. From 1993 she works at the “Electronics and Electrical Engineering Department” of University of Oviedo, first as an assistant professor and since 2000 as an associate professor.

From 1998 to present - Technical leader of “Batteries and new energy storage systems” researching group, at the Electronics and Electrical Engineering Department of University of Oviedo. A multidisciplinary team (Ph D. Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Ph.D. Computer Science Engineers and Ph. D. Chemistries) that focuses his research on the electrical and chemical characterization of batteries, and on the design of efficient fast-charging and management methods. Now, the experience is being applied to the new Li-ion technologies, with emphasis on LFP batteries because of its applicability in electric vehicles.

From 2000 to present – Battery laboratory head at the University of Oviedo. With more than 15 years of experience in the field of battery testing, nowadays she coordinates the activities of the following R&D facilities at the Campus of Gijon (University of Oviedo).

Battery Test Laboratory

• 1 Commercial test-bench for small capacity batteries
• 3 Customizable test-benches for medium/large capacity batteries: DC power supplies of 13 kW (580 A; 60 V) and DC electronic loads of 1,8 kW (300 A)
• 3 Programmable thermal chambers for testing at room temperature from 0 ºC to +60 ºC

Energy Storage Systems Laboratory

• 60 kW Commercial test-bench for modules of large capacity batteries (600 A, 100 V)
• 12,000 L Programmable thermal chamber (2.45 m x 2 m x 2.4 5m) from -20 ºC to +60 ºC, with gas evacuation system

EVs & Charging Infrastructure

• Electric Vehicles: Electric car (Bombardier); Electric scooter and electric wheelchair
• Garage for EV parking and charging
• Charging stations for EVs (Schneider Electric): 5 Charging points for electric bicycles and motorcycles, and 3 charging points for electric cars

Dr. Manuela González has co-authored more than forty papers in international conferences and journals (IEEE-INTELEC, IEEE-IMTC, IEEE-APEC, IEEE-IECON, IEEE-ISIE, ESPC, AABC, EVS, EEVC, BATTERIES, Journal of Power Sources, Applied Mathematical Modeling, Applied Soft Computing…) and more than fifteen papers in nationals (Spanish), about Ni and Li battery technologies:

• Design of specific test-benches and testing methodologies
• Battery performance evaluation under standard/stressful conditions
• Analysis of battery degradation, including determination of cycle life
• Development of fast charging techniques
• Design of models for the battery state-of-charge estimation (SOC)
• Evaluation of protocols for battery management systems (BMS)

Other thirty papers in international conferences and journals, mainly related to the design and implementation of measurement and instrumentation systems.

In the field of batteries, Dr. Manuela González has led eleven R&D projects and collaborated in six R&D projects, with public and/or private funding (including European financing, FEDER) and the participation of Spanish and international companies (CAF S.A; TRAINELEC S.L., HUNOSA; SHORTES S.A..; ADARO Tecnología S.A; GH ELECTROTERMIA S.A.; IBERDROLA GENERACIÓN S.A.; ENDESA INGENIERÍA S.L.; SAFT BATERÍAS S.L.; DESARROLLO AUTOMOVILIDAD S.L….).

She has collaborated in other nine R&D projects and eight industry transference projects to develop measuring and instrumentation equipment.

Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) from 1996, she has served as paper reviewer in several IEEE Transactions and conferences, and as conference session chair.

More information about the Battery Group can be obtained in this file (link).

Cecilio Blanco

Dr Cecilio Blanco Viejo received the M.Sc Degree and Ph.D, both in electrical engineering, from the University of Oviedo, Spain, in 1989 and 1996 respectively.

From 1990 to 1999 he was Assistant Professor with the Electrical and Electronic Department of the University of Oviedo, where since 1999 he has been Associate Professor.

His research interests include electronic ballasts, discharge lamp modeling, battery life cycle evaluation, battery characterization, battery modeling and efficient fast-charging method methods for Li batteries. At present his experience is being applied into the electric car field using LFP traction batteries.

He is author and co-author of several journal and conference publications in lighting and battery fields.

Pablo Arboleya

Pablo Arboleya received the M.Eng and Ph.D. (with distinction) degrees from the University of Oviedo, Gijon, Spain un 2001 and 2005 respectively, both in electrical engineering.

During the last ten years he worked in the University of Oviedo, participating in several research projects with companies like ABB, Arcelor, EdP, REE, Hidrocantabrico, CAF.

His research areas are goes from fault detection and design of electrical machines, to power systems and microgrid systems.

At this moment he is involved in several projects in this areas, one of the most important is related with unified AC/DC power flow simulation software development for a DC traction network simulation.

Pablo Arboleya is the author of a large number of publications that have appeared in the leading journals in the field of Electric Machines and Power systems and have been presented at a wide array of international conferences.

Nowadays, he is involved as a coordinator in a International Master Course Project in "Electrical Energy Conversion and Power Systems".

Cristina González

Cristina González Morán received the M.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Oviedo, Gijón, Spain, in 2003 and 2010, respectively, both in electrical engineering.

She worked as a Photovoltaic consultant from 2004 to 2005.

She is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Oviedo.

Her areas of interest include renewable energies, distributed generation and microgrids modeling, simulation, design and optimization.

Marcelo Freitas da Silva

Marcelo F. da Silva was born in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1970. He received the B.S., M.Sc, and PhD. degrees in electrical engineering from the Federal University of Santa Maria, Santa Maria, Brazil, in 1995, 2000 and 2012, respectively.

Since 1999, he has been a Researcher in the Electronic Ballast Research Group (GEDRE), Federal University of Santa Maria.

Since 1993, he has been with the Federal University of Santa Maria, where he is currently a Professor in the Industrial Technical School.

He also serves as a Reviewer for IEEE journal and conferences in the field of power electronics.

His research interests include electronic ballasts, lamps, dimming systems, discharge lamp, power factor correction, fluorescent lamps and LEDs.

Juan Pablo Fernández

EDP.

Jaime Arau Roffiel

Jaime Arau Roffiel He was born in Veracruz, Mexico, in 1960 and received the B.Sc. degree in electronic engineering from the Instituto Tecnologico de Minatitlan, Minatitlan, Mexico, and the Ph.D. degree in electronic engineering from the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, in 1982 and 1991, respectively.

He is Professor of the National Center for Research and Technological Development (CENIDET), located in Cuernavaca, Mexico, where he has teached and conducted research in the area of power electronics. His fields of interest are power factor correction, power quality, electronics ballasts, and power converter for non conventional energy sources and he has published more than 150 papers in international journal and conferences, supervised 8 PhD and 40 MSc thesis, and conducted more than 20 industrial and government sponsored projects. He is currently serving as Vice-minister for Scientific Research of the Minister of Innovation, Science and Technology of the State of Morelos, MEXICO.

Dr. Arau was the recipient of the IEEE 3rd Millennium Medal and he was the founding President of the IEEE Morelos (Mexico) Section-Power Electronics Chapter and the Mexican Power Electronics Society (SOMEP). Inside PELS AdCom, he has served as Region No. 9 Liason, Member at Large and Chapters Coordinator. He was the General Chair of the IEEE Power Electronics Specialists Conference – PESC’03 in Acapulco, Mexico and has been technical reviewer since 1995 of several major conferences (PESC, APEC, etc.) and journals (IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics and the IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications). He is member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences (since 1999) and the Morelos Academy of Sciences (since 2003), as well as member of the Mexican Researchers System (since 1992). He is part of several councils for science and technology in Mexico.

Antonio Campos

Dr. Antonio Campos is the Director for Technology and Innovation of SERESCO (www.seresco.es) since Nov. 2012.

He has a PhD in Informatics and a MSc. in Industrial Engineering by the University of Oviedo (Spain).

Since 1996 Dr. Campos has participated in diverse international R&D initiatives at research or management levels, first as full-time associate professor of the University of Oviedo and from 2005 as the Director for Research and innovation of CTIC Technological Center (http://www.fundacionctic.org).

During 2011-2012 Antonio Campos was the CIO of Segurauto (http://www.segurauto.com), a start-up company on the insurance (electronic commerce) sector.

Since 2005 Antonio Campos has been also part-time associate professor on the University of Oviedo, where he combines R&D and managing activities with teaching activities.

Juan José Moreno

Juan José Moreno-Navarro received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the Technical U. of Madrid (UPM), Spain in 1989. He developed a large part of his Ph.D. at RWTH Aachen (Germany).

He has been Full Professor at the UPM Computer Science Department since 1996 and joined the IMDEA Software Institute upon its foundation.

He served as Deputy Director up to 2008.

He has published more than 100 papers in international conferences, books, and journal publications.

He has also participated in several EU-funded and other national and international research projects, founding, leading, and ensuring continuous funding for the BABEL research group for more than 17 years.

He has organized, served in program committees, and given invited talks and tutorials in many conferences in the IST field.

He is a member of the editorial board of the Electronic Journal of Functional and Logic Programming.

He also coordinated the first Erasmus Mundus Master taught in Spain.

He has been the founding director of SpaRCIM, the Spanish research consortium in Informatics and Mathematics.

He has been responsible for the ICT research program, in charge on International Relations for IST, FP6 IST Committee member, and Spanish National Contact Point for the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science.

He has also been the Spanish representative at the ICT COST Committee as well as COST-ICT liaison and observer from ERCIM at the European Science Foundation, vice-chair of the Spanish Society for Software Engineering, and vice-chair of the Spanish Technology Platform on Software and Services INES.

Prof. Moreno-Navarro is currently on leave as Director General for University Policies at the Spanish Ministry of Education.

His research interests include all aspects related to declarative and rigorous software development technologies.

This includes software development techniques, specially specification languages, automatic generation of code (programming from specifications), and software services description.

His interests also include declarative languages (functional and logic programming) and, specially the integration of functional and logic programming, including the expressiveness of such these languages for real world applications. He has led the design and implementation of the language BABEL and now takes part in the activities of the international committee involved in the design of the new language Curry.

Ricardo González

TSK

Enrique J. Dede

Prof. Dr. Enrique J. Dede obtained his PhD in Electronics from the University of Valencia.

Full Professor in Power Electronics at the University of Valencia since 1991 and R&D Director at the company GH Electrotermia S.A.

Dr. Dede holds several international patents on high frequency inverters for induction heating and has written more than 200 papers in the field of Power Electronics.

He has more than 30 years experience in the field of Power Electronics and particularly in the design of high frequency inverters for induction heating, telecom power and recently in the conception and design of fast DC chargers for EV´s.

Prof. Dede was former member of the European Working Group of the IAS-IEEE, past President of the joint Spanish IEEE Chapter of the Power Electronics Society (PELS) and Industrial Electronics Society (IES) and was the General Chair of the European Power Electronics Conference-EPE 2009, held in Barcelona (Spain).

Dr. Dede is actually serving as the Vice- President of the European Power Electronics Association (EPE) and he is member of the International Advisory Board of the PCIM-Europe and PCIM-Asia.

José Miguel Orallo

RENAULT

Juan Carlos Juanes

RENAULT

Overseas Transport & Flow Manager

Dpto. ILN-SFK

DLO España

João Pedro F. Trovão

João Pedro F. Trovão received the Electrical Engineering and M.Sc. degrees (Power Systems) in 1999 and 2004, respectively and his Ph.D. degree in 2013.

Since 2000, he is a Teaching Assistant with the Electrical Engineering Department of the Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra (IPC–ISEC), Portugal.

His research interests cover the areas of electric vehicles, renewable energy, energy management, power quality and rotating electrical machines.

He is a member of the Portuguese Electric Vehicle Association (APVE).

Marina S. Perdigão

Marina S. Perdigão (S'06) was born in Coimbra, Portugal, in 1978.

She received the M.Sc. Degree and Ph.D. both in Electrical Engineering from the University of Coimbra, Portugal, in 2004 and 2012 respectively.

She works at the Electrical Engineering Department of the Superior Institute of Engineering of Coimbra, Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra since 2002, first as an assistant professor and since 2012 as a lecturer.

She is also a researcher at the Instituto de Telecomunicações, Coimbra, Portugal since 2001.

From 2006 to 2012 she conducted her Ph.D. work in the University of Coimbra in co-operation with the University of Oviedo,Spain.

Her research interests include high-frequency electronic ballasts, discharge lamp modelling, high-frequency switching converters, resonant converters, power electronics for renewable energies and computer simulation applications.

Marina S. Perdigão has received the best paper award of the 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics.

She is also a member of IEEE where she collaborates as a transactions paper reviewer.

José Villarejo

Jose A. Villarejo was born in Murcia, Spain, in 1972.

He received the M. Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Murcia, in 1997 and the PhD. from the University of Cartagena, Spain, in 2004.

Since 1998, he has been an Assistant Professor at the Technical University of Cartagena.

His research interests are dc/dc converters and photovoltaic grid connected microinverters.

Antonio José Gutierrez

Antonio J. Gutiérrez-Trashorras is professor in the Department of Energy in the Area of Heat Engines, University of Oviedo (Spain) since 2005.

He read his PhD thesis in 2007 on the energy consumption of petroleum products.

Currently his main line of research focuses on renewable energy.

Joaquín Fernández

Joaquín Fernandez Francos is professor in the Area of Fluid Mechanics at Extremadura University (Spain) since 2003.

He read his PhD thesis in 1994 on centrifugal pumps running in turbine mode.

Currently his main line of research focuses on hydraulic and renewable energy.

Luis Nicolás

Industrial Engineer (6 years) currently is the CEO of INGENERAL ENERGIAS RENOVABLES S.L. company.

More the 10 years of experience in design and implementation of solar thermal projects and professional activity as engineer in renewable energy areas.

Has a long track record in comprehensive management and direction of Research, development and innovation projects.

Experience in coordinator technical and human resources, in agreement with internal procedures, also incorporates trains and leads the new members of its team.

Ensures the implementation of all phases and milestones of the project while maximizing profitability and ensuring quality and customer satisfaction.

Is ultimately responsible for the purchase of his unit, vendor selection, technical definition of the purchase and comply with it, negotiation and compliance checking of prices, delivery times and quality of supply, without the deviations in these affect the compliance of the project.

Has 10 years experience in the high technology industry with the last 6 of these in a management role.

Large professional experience in Leading & Developing Teams, Diagram, P&I, Project Management, Negotiation and Risk Management, Strategic Alliances, Customer Relationship Management and Creating Winning Business Plans.

Personal profile
• Director of teamwork, resource planner, organizer, flexible and motivating.
• High personal integrity, able to relate and build trust.
• Familiar with requirements of quality, safety and environment.
• Expert in Renewable Energy, especially solar thermal and photovoltaic.
• Background in a wide range of disciplines including industrial processes, construction, civil engineering, telecommunications, machinery, facilities, transportation and energy.
• Knowledge of spreadsheet software and modeling three-dimensional structures of mechanical parts and assemblies.

Experience
• Director of Energy Projects since 2006.
• Experience in study contracts and relationships between the parties and their insurers, research into the causes of the accident; study and identification of potential liabilities, valuation of damages arising out of claims, where appropriate, participation in the meetings arising between the parties to reach agreements, reporting on causes, liabilities, assessments and compensation and ratify before the courts or arbitration courts issued reports and defend the arguments and conclusions presented.
• Experience in research, development and innovation as Director of Projects based on Renewable Energy.
• Experience in coordination of safety in construction and civil engineering.
• Work Experience as Project Director of Industrial Engineering.
• Experience in Technical Office in three-dimensional modeling tasks of mechanical parts and assemblies as well as generation of manufacturing drawings for those items, committed support Industrial design and coordination and training of new staff in handling three-dimensional parametric modeling programs.

Achievements
• Working for Nuovo Pignone within the Group, General Electric as an engineer researcher causes of loss of steam turbine, acting as field researcher in the research program to-power plant MSW Zabalgarbi in Vizcaya.
• As an engineer researcher explosion causes of loss of bulk starter in cheese manufacturing company in Arriondas, working for Oterin-Gab Robins.
• As an engineer researcher causes of loss with damage to backhoe Asturias quarry, working for Oterin-Gab Robins.
• As an engineer researcher causes of loss of boiler explosion in cheese manufacturing company in the Industrial Estate Villalonquéjar in Burgos, working for Oterin-Gab Robins.
• As a Designer and Construction Manager Installation system for harnessing solar energy for energy savings in DHW heating and air conditioning in 37 rooms and meeting rooms to service in Socio-Cultural Sports Residence in Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
• As a Designer and Construction Manager Installation system for harnessing solar energy for energy savings in DHW heating and air conditioning for Olympic pool service, College of Madrid.
• As a Designer and Construction Manager System Installation Solar Photovoltaic Energy use for connection to the Madrid College Network.
• Participation in Industrial Engineering expert on Renewable Energy in the Energy Efficiency Sub-SP7 belonging to Subproject No. 5 Singular Strategic Project Bioclimatic Architecture and Solar Cooling (ARFRISOL) in Asturias.
• Participation in Industrial Engineering expert on Renewable Energy Research Project "Research of Public Lighting Systems High-efficiency, incorporating generation capacity and energy storage, and the possibility of autonomous operation and power delivery network distribution "(Project Enerlight) together with the ce3i2 Research Group.
• Business tutor and co-director of final projects at the Gijon Polytechnic School of engineering (EPI-GIJON).

Antonio JB Cortes-Ruíz

Dr. Cortes is PhD in Engineering and Fuels for the Polythechnical University of Madrid, E-MBA for ESADE Business School, and Master on Engineering by Spanish Ministry of Industry.

DEA on Sociology and Political Sciences.

He is Member of the Board of the Spanish Commission of Scientist (AEC), as well as member of COTEC during last 20 years, and professor on Polythechnical University of Madrid, and "Escuela de Organización Industrial”.

Dr. Cortes was Advisor for IAEA/OIEA in missions at CITON in Romania & CNEA in Argentina.

As well was International Project manager or R&D projects in several EURATOM programmes located in Sweden, Norway, Finland, Germany, Switzerland, Czech Republic, France, Spain & UK.

Fernando Soto

Fernando Soto received the M.Sc. degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Oviedo, Spain, in 2001.

He has a Master Degree in Business Administration and a Master Degree in Maintenance Managing. He is European Welding Engineer and International Welding Engineer.

Since 2001 he has been working in the Erection and Maintenance Division of Imasa. Currently he is Project Manager on International Projects on the Energetic, Environmental and other sectors.

Oliver Menéndez

Oliver Menéndez is responsible Zitron electric department since 2008.

The scope of work of this department goes from design to development, manufacture and commissioning of ventilation systems in the field of tunneling, road, rail and metro and specific projects of mine ventilation and mining machinery.

Since 2004 he has developed experience in project management and systems integration.He has worked on self-developed of monitoring systems, control and simulation of processes for the company "Entornos Integrados de Automatización".

Prior to that, he was involved research projects at the University of Oviedo for two years.

He holds Computer Engineering from the University of Oviedo.

Among his objectives is constantly improving ventilation systems from more efficient management of energy, to developing innovative solutions that simplify and improve manufacturing tasks, maintenance, commissioning and documentation. This is a very demanding job, it would not be possible without the support of the electricity department and the strong belief of the direction of the company to offer the best product at the lowest price.

In Gijón Zitron have the largest test bench for ventilation systems in the world, with a long of 100 m and a section bench of 52 m ², it possesses a real load test capacity to work with fans are up to 4 m in diameter and it have a true power of 1.600 kW. Additional information about this infrastructure can be obtained in this link.

Pablo García

Pablo Garcia received the M.S. and PhD degrees in electrical engineering and control for the University of Oviedo, Gijon, Spain in 2001 and 2006 respectively.

For the period of 2002-2006 he has been awarded a fellowship of the Personnel Research Training Program funded by the Spanish Ministry of Education.

In 2004 he was a visitor Scholar at the University of Madison-Wisconsin at the Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium (WEMPEC).

He is currently an associate professor with the Department of Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering, University of Oviedo.

His research interest includes AC drives, sensorless control, AC machines diagnostics, energy conversion, magnetics bearings and signal processing.

Juan Manuel Guerrero

Juan Manuel Guerrero (S’00–A’01–M’04) received the M.E. degree in industrial engineering and the Ph.D.degree in electrical and electronic engineering from the University of Oviedo, Gijón, Spain, in 1998 and 2003, respectively.

Since 1999, he has occupied different teaching and research positions within the Department of Electrical,Computer, and Systems Engineering, University of Oviedo, where he is currently an Associate Professor.

From February to October 2002, he was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Wisconsin, Madison,WI, USA. From June to December 2007, he was a Visiting Professor at Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, TN, USA.

His research interests include parallel-connected motors fed by one inverter, sensorless control of induction motors, control systems, and digital signal processing.

Dr. Guerrero was the recipient of an award from the College of Industrial Engineers of Asturias and León, Spain, for his M.E. thesis in 1999,two IEEE Industry Applications Society Conference prize paper awards in 2003 and 2009, and the University of Oviedo Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Award in 2004.