Prof. LUIZ C. FREITAS was born in Monte Alegre, Minas Gerais, Brazil, in April 1952. He received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in power electronics from the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianopolis, Brazil, in 1985 and 1992, respectively. In 1991, he founded the Research Center in Power Electronics, Federal University of Uberlândia (UFU). He has authored a variety of papers particularly in the areas of soft switching, DC-DC, DC-AC, and AC-DC converters. He has published in PESC-92, APEC-93, PESC-93 and IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON POWER ELECTRONICS, in January 1995, a family of soft-switching converters that promote the driving input and output of switches with zero voltage, which, since then, have been widely used in research related to non-dissipative switching converters. Since 1996, he has been a Researcher recognized by the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) with a Research Productivity Grant. He is currently a retired Professor at UFU, where he is a collaborating Researcher with the Postgraduate Program, Faculty of Electrical Engineering. He has more than 80 articles published in national and international journals, and more than 244 articles published in conferences. His research interests include design and development of power electronics converters.