**Pedro Faria**

Dr. Pedro Faria works in the field of power systems with focus on energy markets, smart grids, and demand response. Current work includes renewable-based distributed generation, energy storage, and electric vehicles. In these fields, optimization, clustering, and classification methods have been applied to real and simulated environment problems. Those include methods based on artificial intelligence, namely meta-heuristics and data mining. He has been developing business models for the modeling, aggregation, and remuneration of consumers participating in electricity markets and in demand response programs. He has also worked in real-time simulation of power and energy systems, namely using the OPAL-RT platform and hardware in the loop (HIL) techniques. Pedro Faria has participated in a significant number of national and international research projects, contributing with models and their implementation, testing, demonstration, and piloting. In those projects, he had scientific management and coordination responsibilities, being namely the leader of work packages and tasks in international projects, the GECAD leader of one national project, and the principal investigator of one national project. Pedro Faria has participated in several panels in relevant international conferences, as invited panelist. He has supervised 1 PhD student and 10 Master students toward conclusion. Pedro Faria is author of 1 patent and of more than 250 scientific papers, 75 of them in indexed journals, where he has edited 3 special issues.
