Behrooz Vahidi was born in Abadan, Iran. He received the B.S. in electrical engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran in 1980 and M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran in 1989. He also received his Ph.D.

in electrical engineering from UMIST, Manchester, UK in 1997. From 1980 to 1986 he worked in the field of high voltage in industry as chief engineer. From 1989 to present he has been with the department of electrical engineering of Amirkabir University of Technology where he is now a professor. Prof. Vahidi is an IEEE senior member. He is selected by the ministry of higher education of Iran and by IAEEE (Iranian Association of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) as the distinguished researcher of Iran. Prof. Vahidi was Director of Power System Center of Excellence at Amirkabir University of Technology.

His main fields of research are high voltage, electrical insulation, power system transient, lightning protection and pulse power technology. Ramezan Ali Naghizadeh was born in 1981, Hamedan, Iran. He received the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2004, and the M.Sc.

and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2008 and 2012, respectively. He is now an Assistant Professor at the Hamedan University of Technology, Hamedan, Iran. His fields of interest include power system modeling, power quality, and techno-economic analysis and design of energy systems.