Sanjeevikumar Padmanaban is a Full Professor in Electrical Power Engineering with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Information Technology, and Cybernetics of the University of South-Eastern Norway, Norway. He has over a decade of academic and teaching experience, including Associate/Assistant Professorships at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa (2016-2018), Aalborg University, Denmark (2018-2021) and the CTIF Global Capsule Laboratory at Aarhus University, Denmark (2021-present). Prof. Padmanaban received a lifetime achievement award from Marquis Who’s Who - USA 2017 for contributing to power electronics and renewable energy research, and was listed among the world’s top 2% of scientists by Stanford University, USA in 2019.