Juan C. Vasquez (IEEE SM 14) received the B.S. degree in electronics engineering from the UAM, Manizales, Colombia, and the Ph.D. degree in automatic control, robotics, and computer vision from BarcelonaTech-UPC, Spain, in 2004 and 2009, respectively. In 2019, He became Professor in Energy Internet and Microgrids and currently He is the Co-Director of the Villum Center for Research on Microgrids (see crom.et.aau.dk). He was a Visiting Scholar at the Center of Power Electronics Systems (CPES) at Virginia Tech, USA and a visiting professor at Ritsumeikan University, Japan. His current research interests include operation, cooperative control, optimization and energy management applied to Microgrids and the integration of Internet of Things and Energy Internet into the SmartGrid. Prof. Vasquez has been awarded as Highly Cited Researcher by Thomson Reuters since 2017, and He was the recipient of the Young Investigator Award 2019. He has published more than 460 journal papers in the field of Microgrids, which in total are cited more than 28000 times.