Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 2006, Professor Yonghua Song is a distinguished Chinese electrical engineer whose research and professional work have focused on power systems, smart grids, energy systems, and electricity markets. Born in January 1964 in Bazhong, Sichuan Province, he received his B.Eng. from Chengdu University of Science and Technology, now Sichuan University, in 1984 and his Ph.D. from the China Electric Power Research Institute in 1989. From 1989 to 1991, he conducted postdoctoral research in electrical engineering at Tsinghua University before moving to the United Kingdom, where he held academic positions at the University of Bristol, the University of Bath, and Liverpool John Moores University. In 1997, he was appointed Professor of Power Systems at Brunel University and Royal Academy of Engineering/British Energy/Siemens Chair Professor. From 2004 to 2006, he served as Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Brunel University and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2004. In 2007, he became Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Liverpool, while also serving as Executive President of Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University. After returning to China in 2009, he served as Professor of Electrical Engineering and Assistant President of Tsinghua University and subsequently as Director of the National Office of the Recruitment Program of Global Experts. From 2012 to 2017, he served as Executive Vice President of Zhejiang University and Founding Dean of its International Campus. Since January 2018, he has served as the ninth Rector of the University of Macau, where he is also Chair Professor of Electrical Engineering and Director of the State Key Laboratory of Internet of Things for Smart City. He was elected an IEEE Fellow in 2008 and an International Member of Academia Europaea in 2019. He is also a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology and the Chin