Erivelton Nepomuceno received his BEng and PhD in Electrical Engineering from UFSJ (2001) and UFMG (2005) respectively. He is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Ocean Energy Research and the Department of Electronic Engineering at Maynooth University. He was a visiting Research Fellow at the Technological Institute of Aeronautics in Brazil (2005), Imperial College London (2013/14), Saint Petersburg Electrotechnical University in Russia (2019), and City, University of London (2020/21).