Marcelo C. Cavalcanti was born in Recife, Brazil, in 1972. He received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering in 1997 from the Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Federal University of Campina Grande, Campina Grande, Brazil, in 1999 and 2003, respectively. Since 2003, he has been at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Federal University of Pernambuco, where he is a Professor. His research interest is power electronics applied to renewable systems and power quality.