J. Marcos Alonso 

J. Marcos Alonso, FIEEE

He received the M. Sc. Degree and Ph. D. (with honors) both in electrical engineering, from the University of Oviedo, Spain, in 1990 and 1994 respectively. Since 2007, he is a full Professor at the Electrical Engineering Department of the University of Oviedo, in Asturias, Spain. Since 2022, he has been a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). His research interests include electronic ballasts, LED power supplies, power factor correction, dc-dc converters, soft-switching converters, power factor correction, EMI, resonant inverters, renewable energy applications, wireless power transfer, and high-frequency low-power switching converters in general. 

Prof. Alonso is co-author of more than 500 journal and conference publications, including 150 publications in highly referenced journals (JCR-SCI). He has also published 3 books and 2 book chapters. He has been adviser/co-adviser of 17 Ph.D. Thesis. He is the holder of 8 national and international patents. He has participated in more than 50 research projects and contracts with companies. He has been a visiting researcher at Federal University of Santa Maria, Santa Maria, Brazil (2011, 2014), at Center for Power Electronics Systems, Virginia Tech., Blacksburg, USA (2013), and at Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil (2018). Since 2015, he has been an invited professor and researcher at Harbin Institute of Technology, China. Since 2019, he is a Guest Professor of Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), China.

Prof. Alonso has been awarded with the Early Career Award of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society in 2006. He was honored with the University of Oviedo Electrical Engineering Doctorate Award. Prof. Alonso was also awarded with the National Funding for Intensification of Research Activity for the period 2008-2012. He also holds 14 IEEE conference/journal paper awards.

He currently serves as a Co-Editor in Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics. He has been Guest/Co-Guest Editor of 6 special issues published in IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics (2007), IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (2012, 2017), IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics on Power Electronics (2015, 2018), and IET Power Electronics (2019), and has organized many IEEE Conference Special Sessions. He has served as Secretary (2013-2014), Vice-Chair (2015-2016), and Chair (2017-2018) of the IEEE IAS Industrial Lighting and Display Committee (ILDC). He has served as a Member-at-Large of the IEEE IAS Executive Board 2013-2016, IAS Newsletter Editor 2013-2018, Chair of the IAS Web-based Tutorial Committee 2014-2019, and Chair of the IAS Awards Department 2017-2019.