2025. Awarded a research stay grant from the National Council of Science and Technology (CONACYT) to carry out a mobility program at the Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (Canadá).
2025. Awarded a scholarship by the AUGM 2025 Teaching ESCALA Program to carry out a mobility program at the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina).
2024. Best Student Paper Award by the IEEE URUCON Conference, Uruguay.
2024. Elevated to the "Fellow Member" grade by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), UK.
2024. "Professor Andres Aguirre Excellence Award 2024". This award, given by the Cordillera Governorate through its Departmental Education Council (CODEC), recognises individuals who have significantly contributed to education and research while serving as exemplary role models for Cordillera's youth.
2023. Distinguished recognition from the Cordillera Governor, Julio Cesar Romero, for his noteworthy contributions to scientific research. This recognition highlights Prof. Rodas's exceptional dedication and accomplishments within the realm of research.
2023. Elevated to the grade of "Level III" by the National Researcher Incentive Program (Programa Nacional de Incentivo a los Investigadores - PRONII), National Council of Science and Technology (CONACYT), Paraguay. This level constitutes the highest categorisation a researcher can achieve in the country.
2023. "Scival CICCO 2023 Award" from Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología-CONACYT and Elsevier for being the Paraguayan author with the most publications in one of the top 5% topics of global prominence, based on metrics extracted from Elsevier's extensive database.
2022. Honorary mention in the National Science Award 2022 (Premio Nacional de Ciencia 2022). The Congress of the Nation of Paraguay gives the award. The Paraguayan National Science Award is the most important award given to Paraguayan researchers. More information is available in the link.
2022. Awarded as a "Nationally Outstanding Researcher". The award is given by the Universidad Iberoamericana del Paraguay - UNIBE.
2021. Awarded a scholarship from the Fundación Carolina (Spanish Government) for a postdoctoral research stay at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain.
2020. National Science Award 2020 (Premio Nacional de Ciencia 2020). The Congress of the Nation of Paraguay gives the award. The Paraguayan National Science Award is the most important award given to Paraguayan researchers. More information is available in link1, link2, link3
2020. Elevated to the grade of "Level II" by the National Researcher Incentive Program (Programa Nacional de Incentivo a los Investigadores - PRONII), National Council of Science and Technology (CONACYT), Paraguay.
2019. Best Student Contest Award by the Associazione Italiana di Elettrotecnica, Elettronica, Automazione, Informatica e Telecomunicazioni (AEIT), Italy.
2019. Top Peer Reviewer 2019 by Publons. For placing in the top 1% of reviewers in engineering on Publons' global reviewer database.
2019. Elevated to the "Senior Member" grade by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), United States.
2017. Elevated to the grade of "Level I" by the National Researcher Incentive Program (Programa Nacional de Incentivo a los Investigadores - PRONII), National Council of Science and Technology (CONACYT), Paraguay.
2017. Awarded a research stay grant from the National Council of Science and Technology (CONACYT), Paraguay.
2013. Awarded a scholarship from the Fundación Carolina (Spanish Government) for PhD studies at the University of Seville, Spain.
2015. Awarded a research stay grant from the National Council of Science and Technology (CONACYT), Asuncion.
2015. Awarded a scholarship from the Organization of American States for a course in Eolic Energy at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain.
2014. Elevated to the grade of "Researcher Candidate" by the National Researcher Incentive Program (Programa Nacional de Incentivo a los Investigadores - PRONII), National Council of Science and Technology (CONACYT), Paraguay.
2013. Distinguished as a “Senior Investigator” by the Itaipu Binacional award received from the President of the Republic, Federico Franco, Paraguay.
2013. The best paper from Paraguay in the Competition, “Latin American Monographs on Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy”, was received in Florianopolis, Brazil.
2013. Awarded a scholarship from the International Cooperation and Development Fund (ICDF) for a course in Solar Energy in Taipei, China.
2012. Awarded a research stay grant from the Iberoamerican University Postgraduate Association, Spain.
2010. Awarded the Scholarship from Erasmus Mundus External Cooperation Window (EMECW) for M.Sc. studies at the University of Vigo, Spain.
2002. Gold Medal in the III National Physics Olympiad, Received in Asuncion, Paraguay.
2001. Bronze Medal in the II National Physics Olympiad, Received in Asuncion, Paraguay.
MDPI - Electronics (2025-2025).
MDPI - Applied Sciences (2025-2025).
MDPI - Symmetry (2025-2025).
MDPI - Aerospace (2025-2025).
MDPI - Sensors (2025-2025).
IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion (2024 -current).
IEEE Open Journal of the Industrial Electronics Society (2022-current).
MDPI - Energies (2022-current).
MDPI - World Electric Vehicle Journal. (CiteScore 2.2). (2021 - current).
IEEE Latin America Transactions (Impact Factor 0.502). (2019-current).
Measurement - Elsevier (Impact Factor 2.218). (2018-current).
Elsevier Journal of Advanced Research (Impact Factor 4.327). (2018-current).
IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics (Impact Factor 7.151). (2016-current).
IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics (Impact Factor 4.269). (2017-current).
IEEE Access (Impact Factor 3.244). (2017-current).
IET Electric Power Application (Impact Factor 1.211).
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (Impact Factor 6.383). (2016-current).
Electric Power and System Research (Impact Factor 1.809).
International Journal of Electronics (Impact Factor 0.414). (2017-current).
IEEE Electronics Letters (Impact Factor 1.155). (2017-current).
2024: URUCON 2024, Montevideo, Uruguay.
2024: The 50th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society: IECON 2024, Chicago, IL, USA.
2023: IEEE ISIE 2023 is the 32nd International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE 2023), Helsinki-Espoo, Finland.
2022: IEEE conference on power electronics and renewable energy: IEEE CPERE, Luxor, Egypt.
2022: The 48th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society: IECON 2022, Brussels, Belgium.
2022: International Conference on Electrical Machines (ICEM 2022). Valencia, Spain.
2022: European Control Conference (ECC). London, England.
2021: IEEE 2021 IEEE Chilean Conference on Electrical, Electronic Engineering, Informatics and Communications Technology (IEEE-CHILECON), Chile.
2021: IEEE Vehicle Power and Propulsion Conference (IEEE-VPPC'2021). Gijón, Spain.
2021: IEEE 12th International Symposium on Power Electronics for Distributed Generation Systems (PEDG 2021). virtual conference.
2020: IEEE International Conference on Electrical Machines (ICEM 2020). Gothenburg, Sweden.
2020: IEEE 11th International Symposium on Power Electronics for Distributed Generation Systems (PEDG 2020). Dubrovnik, Croatia.
2020: The 20th International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering (EEEIC 2020). Madrid, Spain.
2020: The 2020 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS'20). Athens, Greece.
2019: 2019 International Workshop on Research, Education and Development on Unmanned Aerial Systems (RED-UAS'19). Cranfield, UK.
2019: IEEE CHILECON . Valparaíso, Chile.
2019: IEEE Vehicle Power and Propulsion Conference (IEEE-VPPC'2019). Hanoi, Vietnam.
2019: IEEE 41st International Communications Energy Conference (INTELEC 2019). Singapore.
2019: IEEE 45th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IEEE-IECON). Lisbon, Portugal.
2019: IEEE International Electric Machine & Drives Conference (IEMDC). San Diego, CA, USA.
2019: IEEE International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering (EEEIC). Geneva, Italy.
2018: IEEE Autumn Meeting on Power, Electronics and Computing (ROPEC). Ixtapa, Mexico.
2018: IEEE International Conference on Automation /Congress of Chilean Association of Automatic Control (IEEE ICA-ACCA). Concepción, Chile.
2018: IEEE 9th International Symposium on Power Electronics for Distributed Generation Systems (PEDG). Charlotte, NC, USA.
2017: IEEE 3rd Annual Southern Hemisphere Conference on Power Electronics (SPEC). Puerto Varas, Chile.
2017: IEEE 43rd Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IEEE-IECON). Beijing, China.
2017: IEEE Autumn Meeting on Power, Electronics and Computing (ROPEC). Ixtapa, Mexico.
2017: IEEE INTELEC. Broadbeach, Queensland, Australia.
2017: IEEE CHILECON. Pucón, Chile.
2017: IEEE 18th Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics (IEEE COMPEL). Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, United States.
2017: IEEE International Electric Machine & Drives Conference (IEMDC). Miami, FL, United States.
2017: IEEE 18th International Conference on Industrial Technology (ICIT). Toronto, ON, Canada.
2017: IEEE 8th International Symposium on Power Electronics for Distributed Generation Systems (PEDG). Florianopolis, SC, Brazil.
2017: The 12th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications (ICIEA). Siem Reap, Cambodia.
2016: IEEE Autumn Meeting on Power, Electronics and Computing (ROPEC). Ixtapa, Mexico.
2015: IEEE 41st Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IEEE-IECON). Yokohama, Japan.
2014: The 3rd Conference of Computational Interdisciplinary Sciences (CCIS). San Lorenzo, Paraguay.
2013: The 4th Symposium on Sensorless Control for Electrical Drives, 2nd Symposium on Predictive Control of Electrical Drives and Power Electronics (SLED-PRECEDE). Munich, Germany.
2013: International Conference on Consumer Electronics, Communications and Networks (CECNet). Xianning, China.
2013: IEEE SCOReD - IEEE Student Conference on Research & Development (SCOReD). Putrajaya, Malaysia.
2012: IEEE Aranducon. Asuncion, Paraguay.
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2025: IEEE/AIAA Transportation Electrification Conference and Electric Aircraft Technologies Symposium (ITEC+EATS), Anaheim, CA, USA.
2024: Keynote Speaker at the 16th Webinar of Applied Sciences.
2024: IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference and Exhibition (ITEC) 2024, Rosemont, Illinois, USA.
2023: 21st INPRO Dialogue Forum on the Deployment of Small Modular Reactor Projects and Technologies to Support the Sustainable Development Goals (SMRs for SDGs), Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation.
2023: Keynote speaker in the Zhixin Lecture Hall at Tongji University. Shanghai, China.
2023: Keynote Speaker. 20th IEEE International Multi-Conference on Systems, Signals & Devices 2023. Mahdia, Tunisia.
2023: IEEE Conference on Power Electronics and Renewable Energy: IEEE CPERE. Luxor, Egypt.
2022: Invited Speaker. CITCEA. Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). Barcelona, Spain.
2021: Keynote Speaker. 2021 IEEE CHILEAN Conference on Electrical, Electronics Engineering, Information and Communication Technologies (CHILECON). Virtual Event.
2019: The 45th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON). Lisbon, Portugal.
2019: International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO). Prague, Czech Republic.
2019: IEEE International Electric Machine & Drives Conference (IEMDC). San Diego, CA, United States.
2018: International Conference on Electrical Systems for Aircraft, Railway, Ship Propulsion, and Road Vehicles & International Transportation Electrification Conference (ESARS - ITEC). Nottingham, England, UK.
2018: International Symposium on Power Electronics, Electrical Drives, Automation and Motion (SPEEDAM). Amalfi Coast, Italy.
2018: The International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS). Dallas, TX, United States.
2018: Congreso Maule Energía 2018. Universidad de Talca. Talca, Chile (Invited Speaker).
2017: The 18th IEEE Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics (IEEE COMPEL). Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, United States.
2017: IEEE International Electric Machine & Drives Conference (IEMDC). Miami, FL, United States.
2017: Simposium of Renewable Energies (ENER17). Universidad de Talca. Curico, Chile (Invited Speaker).
2016: The 7th International Symposium on Power Electronics for Distributed Generation Systems (PEDG). Vancouver, BC, Canada.
2015: The 50th International Universities Power Engineering Conference (UPEC). Stoke-on-Trent, England, UK.
2014: Tutorial about renewable energies. Universidad de A Coruña. A Coruña, Spain (Invited Speaker).
2013: The 39th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON). Vienna, Austria.
2013: Eco-lógicas. Latin American Contest of Monographs on Renewable Energies and Energy Efficiency. Florianopolis, SC, Brazil.
2013: Workshop on policy frameworks for photovoltaic development. Taipei, Taiwan.
2012: Power Conversion Intelligent Motion (PCIM). Sao Paulo, Brazil.
2024: Intercoding 6.0, Organised by the Catholic University, Caacupe, Paraguay (Invited Speaker).
2022: World Energy Council (WEC) Paraguay, organised by the Ministry of Public Works and Communications. Asuncion, Paraguay (Invited Speaker).
2017: 1st Power and Energy Systems Seminar (SISPOE), Organised by the Student branch of the Power & Energy Society (PES - IEEE). Universidad Nacional de Asunción. San Lorenzo, Paraguay (Invited Speaker).
2017: Research in Power & Energy at the National University of Asuncion Research Laboratories. Organised by the Power & Energy Society (PES - IEEE) Student branch. Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Nacional de Asunción. San Lorenzo, Paraguay (Invited Speaker).
2016: Inter-coding 2.0. Universidad Católica "Nuestra Señora de la Asunción". Caacupé, Paraguay (Invited Speaker).
2015: The 1st Research, Development and Innovation Seminar. Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Nacional de Asunción. San Lorenzo, Paraguay (Invited Speaker).
2014: 3rd Congress of Science and Technology. Universidad de Itapua. Encarnación, Paraguay (Invited Speaker).
2011: Tutorial about Digital Signal Processing. OMAPA. San Lorenzo, Paraguay (Invited Speaker).
2023-2024 (currently): Special Issue "Design, Analysis and Optimization of Electrical Machines and Drives for Electric Vehicles, 2nd Edition", World Electric Vehicle Journal, MDPI, (CiteScore 3.7) Guest Editors: Dr Syed Sabir Hussain Bukhari (Sukkur IBA University, Pakistan), Prof. Dr Jorge Rodas (Universidad Nacional de Asunción, Paraguay), Prof. Dr Jesús Doval-Gandoy (Universidade de Vigo, Spain).
2023 (currently): Associate Editor, IEEE Access (IF 3.476, CiteScore 6.7).
2020-2024 (currently): Associate Editor, Alexandria Engineering Journal, Elsevier (IF 2.460; CiteScore 6.5).
2021-2024 (currently): Associate Editor in Engineering and Technology, Revista Investigaciones y Estudios - UNA.
2023: Special Issue "Modern Control Techniques for Electrical Drives", Sustainability, MDPI, (IF 3.889, CiteScore 5.0) Guest Editors: Prof. Dr. Jorge Rodas (Universidad Nacional de Asunción, Paraguay), Prof. Dr. José Rodríguez (Universidad San Sebastián, Chile).
2021-2022: Special Issue on Integrated Control and Modulation for Electric Drives, IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics (IF 4.472; CiteScore 10.1). Guest Editors: Prof. Dr Jorge Rodas (Universidad Nacional de Asuncion, Paraguay), Prof. Dr Luca Zazzi (University of Bologna, Italy) and Prof. Dr Antonio J. Marques Cardoso (CISE | University of Beira Interior, Portugal).
2021-2022: Book Editor, "Power Electronic Converters and Induction Motor Drives", Nova Publishers. United States: New York.
2021-2022: Special Issue "Design, Analysis and Optimization of Electrical Machines and Drives for Electric Vehicles", World Electric Vehicle Journal, MDPI, (CiteScore 2.2) Guest Editors: Dr Syed Sabir Hussain Bukhari (Sukkur IBA University, Pakistan), Prof. Dr Jorge Rodas (Universidad Nacional de Asunción, Paraguay), Prof. Dr Jesús Doval-Gandoy (Universidade de Vigo, Spain).
2020-2022: Research Topic, Recent Advances in Control of Energy Conversion Systems, Frontiers in Energy Research (IF 4.008; CiteScore 2.6). Guest Associate Editors: Prof. Dr. Jorge Rodas (Universidad Nacional de Asunción, Paraguay), Dr. Ignacio González-Prieto (Universidad de Málaga, Spain), Dr. Yassine Kali (École de technologie superièure, Canada).
2020: Special Issue, Control of Power Electronics Converters and Electric Motor Drives, Energies, MDPI (IF 2.707; CiteScore 3.8). Guest Editors: Prof. Dr. Federico Barrero (Universidad de Sevilla, Spain) and Prof. Dr. Jorge Rodas (Universidad Nacional de Asunción, Paraguay).
2019: Special Issue, Solar Energy: New Trends on Grid Integration for PV Systems, International Journal of Photoenergy (IF 1.547). Guest Editors: Prof. Dr. Raul Gregor (Universidad Nacional de Asunción, Paraguay), Prof. Dr. Marco Rivera (Universidad de Talca, Chile), Prof. Dr. Maarouf Saad (École de technologie superièure, Canada), Prof. Dr. Jorge Rodas (Universidad Nacional de Asunción, Paraguay) and Dr. Yassine Kali (École de technologie superièure, Canada).
2025: Chair, Session of "Power Electronics: Inverters", 2025 IEEE/AIAA Transportation Electrification Conference and Electric Aircraft Technologies Symposium (ITEC+EATS).
2021: Chair, Session of "Control Design I", The International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS).
2019: Chair, Session of "Real-Time Systems Control", International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO).
2012: Chair, Session of "Power Systems, Control, and Instrumentation", International Conference ARANDUCOM.
2022: Special Session of "Recent Advances in Model Predictive Control for Power Electronic Converters", The 1st and inaugural version of IEEE Industrial Electronics Society Annual On-Line Conference (ONCON). Co-organiser: Prof Dr Jose Rodriguez (Universidad San Sebastian).
2020: Special Session of "Advances in Topology and Control for Multiphase Machines", The 46th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON). Co-organisers: Dr Hang Seng Che (University of Malaya), Prof. Dr Mario J. Durán (University of Malaga), and Prof. Dr Emil Levi (Liverpool John Moores University).
2020: Organiser, Special Session of "Modelling, Identification, Modulation, and Control of Multiphase Drives", IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology (ICIT). Co-organizers: Dr. José Riveros (University of Talca), Prof. Dr. Joel Prieto (Universidad Alemana).
2019: Organiser and Chair, Special Session in Multiphase Machines and Drives, IEEE International Electric Machine & Drives Conference (IEMDC). Co-organisers: Dr Obrad Dordevic (Liverpool John Moores University), Prof. Dr Mario J. Durán (University of Malaga).
2025: Technical program committee (TPC) member. VIII Ibero-American Congress of Smart Cities.
2023: Technical track program committee member. TT 05 - Power Electronics & Energy Conversion. IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE).
2022: International program committee member. IEEE International Conference on Automation /Congress of Chilean Association of Automatic Control (IEEE ICA-ACCA).
2021: Technical program committee member. Twenty-second IEEE Workshop on Control and Modelling for Power Electronics (IEEE COMPEL).
2020: Technical program committee member. 5th International Conference on Renewable Energies for Developing Countries (REDEC).
2018: Technical program committee member of Renewable Energy. IEEE Autumn Meeting on Power, Electronics and Computing (ROPEC).
2017: Technical program committee member of Renewable Energy. IEEE Autumn Meeting on Power, Electronics and Computing (ROPEC).
2017: Technical program committee member of Embedded Systems and Numerical Analysis of Engineering Applications. IEEE Autumn Meeting on Power, Electronics and Computing (ROPEC).
2016: Technical program committee member of Renewable Energy. 2016 IEEE Autumn Meeting on Power, Electronics and Computing (ROPEC).
2016: Technical program committee member of Power Electronics and Heat Transfer Applications. IEEE Autumn Meeting on Power, Electronics and Computing (ROPEC).
Member of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC).
Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers - Industrial Electronics Society (IEEE-IES).
Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).