**Meet the editor**

Miroslav Chomat received his M.Sc. in Electrical Power Engineering from Czech Technical University in Prague in 1988, and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Institute of Electrical Engineering of the Czech Academy of Sciences in 1994. Currently, he is the head of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Electrophysics at the Institute of Thermomechanics CAS, v.v.i. and the

deputy director of the same Institute. Dr. Chomat is also an Associate Professor at the Department of Electric Drives and Traction of Czech Technical University in Prague. Between 1999 and 2000, he spent one year at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, working as an honorary research fellow. His research interests include numerical modeling and control of electrical machines, drives, power units and electronic converters.
