**About the Editor**

**Nicu Bizon** (Senior Member, IEEE) was born in Albesti de Muscel, Arges county, Romania, 1961. He received his 5-year B.S. degree in Electronic Engineering from the University "Polytechnic" of Bucharest, Romania, in 1986, and Ph.D. degree in Automatic Systems and Control from the same university, in 1996. From 1996 to 1989, he was involved in hardware design with Dacia Renault SA, Romania. Since 2000, he has served as Professor with the University of Pitesti, Romania, and received two awards from Romanian Academy, in 2013 and 2016.

He is Editor and author of 5 books published in Springer and the author of 184 scientific papers (including 5 and 74 papers in *IEEE Transactions* and conferences, respectively) published in Scopus which have been cited 1678 times, corresponding to an h-index = 27. His current research interests include power electronic converters, fuel cell and electric vehicles, renewable energy, energy storage system, microgrids, and control and optimization of these systems.
