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Thiago Pereira holds a B.S. in Mechatronics (2011) from the Federal Institute of Santa Catarina (IFSC) and B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Power Electronics Institute (INEP) at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Florianopolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil, which he obtained both degrees in 2016 and 2018, respectively. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering at Kiel University, Kiel, Germany since 2019. Thiago Pereira has been a research assistant at the Chair of Power Electronics at the same university since 2019 and has worked at Fraunhofer ISIT (Institute for Silicon Technology) since 2023, where he collaborates with different university and industry partners to develop power converter topologies, solid-state transformer architectures, and new fault-tolerance strategies. Over the past decade, he has focused on DC/AC and DC/DC conversion, with a particular emphasis on isolated DC/DC converters and modular topologies.