Cristian Blanco Charro was born in Spain in 1985. He received the B.S degree in Telecommunications Engineering in 2010, the M.S.degree in Electrical Engineering and the PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Oviedo, Gijón, Spain, in 2010, 2011 and 2015 respectively. In 2011, he was awarded a fellowship of the Personnel Research Training Program funded by the Regional Ministry of Education and Science of the Principality of Asturias.His research activity lies in the field of modeling and control of grid-connected converters, microgrids, digital signal processing, power processors for distributed power systems, being mainly focused on the synchronization and islanding tasks, designing power electronics based power processors for green energy sources and proposing new technical solutions to improve stability and power quality in electrical networks.Dr. Blanco was the recipient one IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition prize paper award in 2012. Dr. Blanco received the University of Oviedo Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Award in 2016.