Biography

Helmo K. Morales Paredes received the B.S. degree from the National University of San Agustin, Arequipa, Peru, in 2002, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil, in 2006 and 2011, respectively, all in electrical engineering. In 2009, he joined the Power Electronics Group, University of Padua, Italy, as a Visiting Student. In 2014, he joined the PEMC Group, University of Nottingham, U.K., as a Visiting Scholar. In 2018, he joined the ACEPS Group, Colorado School of Mines, USA, as a Visiting Scholar. Since December 2011, he has been associated with São Paulo State University (UNESP), Sorocaba, Brazil, where he is currently an Associate Professor and the Leader of the Group of Automation and Integrating Systems (GASI) His current research interests include power quality evaluation and power definitions under nonsinusoidal and/or unbalanced conditions and its application in power conditioning by means of local and/or cooperative control of compensators, accountability, revenue metering, and grid-connected converters for renewable energy systems and microgrids.