Francisco J. Nogales received the B.S. degree in mathematics from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, in 1995, and the Ph.D. degree in mathematics from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid in 2000. He is currently an Associate Professor of Statistics and Operations Research at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain. His research interests include planning and economics of power systems, optimization, decomposition methods in mathematical programming problems, and forecasting.