Andrés Alejandro Zúñiga Rodríguez is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering at University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal. He graduated in 2015 in Electrical Engineering specialized in Power Systems from Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral (ESPOL). From 2018 to 2020 was Invited Lecturer at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Scientific Area of Energy, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal, lecturing the curses of Portfólio MEEC (PMeec); Renewable Sources and Distributed Power Generation (ERPD); Electrical Drives and Electrical Vehicles (AVE). Since 2017, his research has been developing his research work at Instituto de Engenharia Mecânica (IDMEC) from the Laboratório Associado de Energia Transportes e Aeronáutiva (LAETA), with financial support through a fellowship from Secretaría Nacional de Educación Superior, Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación (SENESCYT) of the Ecuadorian Government (2017 - 2021). His research interest can divided in three main fields: 1) Power Systems Operation and Planning; 2) Reliability, Availability, Maintainability and Safety; 3) Hydroelectric Power Systems Operation Planning. His current Doctoral Research is about New Approaches for Reliability Assessment in Smart Grids considering cyber-power interdependences.