Joan Sau Bassols received the degree in industrial engineering from the School of Industrial Engineering of Barcelona (ETSEIB), Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Barcelona, Spain, in 2014 and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering also from the UPC in 2019. From 2013 to 2019 he was with CITCEA-UPC Research Group. He did a research stay in the Corporate Research Center of ABB in Västerås, Sweden during five months in 2017. In 2019, he joined SuperGrid Institute in Lyon, France, where he worked as R&D Engineer in power electronics for HVDC applications. In 2024, he moved back to Barcelona and joined eRoots Analytics as a Power Systems Engineer focused on the analysis of modern power systems. His research interests include HVDC, power electronics and renewable energy integration in power systems.