Madeleine Gibescu received her Dipl.Eng. in Power Engineering from the University Politehnica, Bucharest, Romania in 1993 and her MSc and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, U.S. in 1995 and 2003, respectively. She has worked as a Research Engineer for ClearSight Systems, and as a Power Systems Engineer for Alstom Grid, in Washington and California, U.S. From 2007, she has worked as an Assistant Professor for the Electrical Sustainable Energy Department, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. Currently she is an Associate Professor with the Electrical Energy Systems Department, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands. Her research interests are in the area of smart and sustainable power systems.