**Carlos Meza Benavides**

Dr. Carlos Meza Benavides is an electronics engineer with a Master's degree in Embedded System Design from the Universita della Svizzera italiana (USI), Lugano, Switzerland; an Advanced ` Studies Diploma in Dynamic Systems; and a PhD in Advanced Automation and Robotics from the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya—BarcelonaTech (UPC), Spain. He has held various research ` positions, including as a visiting researcher at the University of Groningen, Netherlands; a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Applied Sustainability for the Built Environment in Cannobio, Switzerland; and a senior postdoctoral researcher at UNESCO's International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy. Dr. Meza has served as a consultant on energy issues in Latin America for European projects and the Organization of American States. He was the founder and first president of the Costa Rican Solar Energy Association (Acesolar). Currently, he is a professor in the Master's program in Photovoltaic Engineering at Anhalt University of Applied Sciences in Germany and teaches and advises students at the Costa Rica Institute of Technology (TEC) and the Valencia International University. His research interests include photovoltaic system analysis, embedded system design for energy systems, and power electronics for renewable energy and storage systems ....
