José A. Brandão Faria (Life Fellow, IEEE) was born in Portugal in 1952. He received a Ph.D. and a habilitation degree in electrical engineering from the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), School of Engineering, University of Lisbon, Portugal, in 1986 and 1992, respectively. Before he retired in 2022, he had been a full professor of electrical engineering at IST since 1994, where he taught courses on electromagnetics and circuit analysis theory. Currently, his research activities are carried out with the Instituto de Telecomunicações, Lisbon, where, as a senior researcher, he leads the Applied Electromagnetics Group. He is the author of four books on electrical engineering subjects: Análise de Circuitos (Portugal, IST Press, 2019), Electromagnetic Foundations of Electrical Engineering (U.K., Wiley, 2008), Óptica (Portugal, Ed. Presença, 1995), and Multiconductor Transmission-Line Structures (USA, Wiley, 1993). He has authored over 150 scientific articles in major peer-reviewed periodicals. His research interests include electromagnetic field problems, applied electromagnetics, wave propagation phenomena in multiconductor transmission lines, and overhead power lines. In 2016, he was a recipient of the Scientific Prize in Electrical Engineering Research awarded by the University of Lisbon.