João A. Peças Lopes is Full Professor at Porto University (FEUP) where he teaches in the graduation and post graduation areas and is Diretor of the Sustainable Energy Systems PhD program. He is presently Associate Diretor and Coordinator of the TEC4Energy initiave at INESC TEC, one of the largest R&D interface institutions of the Unversity of Porto. He is also member of the accompanying national committee of the Portuguese recovery and resilience plan. His main domains of research are related with large scale integration of renewable power sources, power system dynamics, storage systems and security of supply, microgeneration and microgrids, smartmetering, electric vehicle grid integration and exploitation of P2P using hydrogen. He is co-editor and co-author of the book “Electric Vehicle Integration into Modern Power Networks” edited by Springer. He is a Fellow from IEEE. He was Adjoint Professor of the Iowa State University and Visiting Professor of University Pontificia Comillas in Madrid.