Victor Becerra, Ph.D., received his degree in electrical engineering from Simon Bolivar University, Caracas, and his Ph.D. in control engineering from the City University of London in 1994. He is currently a professor of power systems engineering at the School of Energy and Electronic Engineering, University of Portsmouth. From 1989 to 1991, he worked as an electrical engineer at CVG Edelca, Caracas, in power systems analysis and control. From 1994 to 1999 he was a postdoctoral research fellow in the Control Engineering Research Centre at the City, University of London. Between 2000 and 2015, he was an academic at the School of Systems Engineering, University of Reading, where he became a professor of automatic control in 2012. His current research interests include various issues related to solar energy, power systems, energy storage, and automatic control. He has published one monograph and has authored/co-authored two edited volumes. He has published more than 150 refereed journal articles and international conference papers. He is a Fellow of the IET and a Senior Member of the IEEE. During his career, he has received external research funding from the EPSRC, the Royal Academy of Engineering, the European Space Agency, the Technology Strategy Board, Innovate UK, the EU, and UK industry. He is an associate editor for the following journals: Energies, Electronics, Electricity, and IMA Journal of Mathematical Control and Information.