Lucas
Frizera Encarnação was born in Vitória, Brazil, on December 27, 1979. He
received the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the Federal University
of Espírito Santo (2003) and the D.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (2009). He is currently associate
Professor at the Electrical Engineering Department from Federal University of
Espírito Santo. His current research interests include active filters, static
compensators, power quality, smart grids technologies, multilevel converters,
inertial control for static converters and model predictive control applied to
static converters.