Miroslav Chomat attained his M.Sc. degree in Electrical Power Engineering from the Czech Technical University in Prague in 1988 and his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Institute of Electrical Engineering of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic in 1994. He is currently a senior researcher and the head of the Department of Electrical Machines, Drives, and Power Electronics at the Institute of Thermomechanics AS CR, v.v.i. He is also an assistant professor at the Department of Electric Drives and Traction of the Czech Technical University in Prague. Between 1999 and 2000, he spent one year at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA working as a honorary research fellow. His research interests include numerical modeling and control of electrical machines, drives, power units and electronic converters.