Michel Kinnaert is Professor in the Department of Control Engineering and System Analysis of “Université libre de Bruxelles” (ULB). He obtained the master degree in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering from ULB, the MS degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and the Ph.D. degree from ULB. His research interests cover system modelling, monitoring and control with applications in mechatronics and power systems mainly. He held visiting professor positions in “Université Claude Bernard Lyon I”, Lyon, France. He has been the chairman of the IFAC Technical Committee SAFEPROCESS from 2002 to 2008 and he is an associate editor of Control Engineering Practice. He co-authored, with M. Blanke, J. Lunze and M. Staroswiecki, the book Diagnosis and Fault Tolerant Control published by Springer.
