**About the Editors**

#### **Philippe Bogaerts**

Philippe Bogaerts (full professor at the Universite libre de Bruxelles) received his master's ´ degree in Chemical Engineering (1992), in Control Engineering (1993) and his Ph.D. degree in Applied Sciences (1999) from the Faculty of Applied Sciences at Universite libre de Bruxelles ´ (Belgium). He was the president of the Brussels Bioengineering School from 2008 to 2012. Since 2013, he has worked as a full professor at Brussels School of Engineering, Universite libre de Bruxelles ´ (Belgium), where he has been the head of the BioControl, BioInfo & BioMatter (3BIO) lab and of the Biosystems Modeling and Control (3BIO-BioControl) research unit since 2003. His research topics include mathematical modeling, parameter identification, non-linear state estimation, model-based optimization and process control of biochemical processes. He is the co-author of more than 100 journal and conference papers on these topics.

#### **Alain Vande Wouwer**

Alain Vande Wouwer (full professor at the University of Mons) received his master's degree in Electrical Engineering from the Faculte Polytechnique de Mons, Belgium, in 1988, and his Ph.D. ´ degree in Applied Sciences from the same university (together with a European doctorate degree in collaboration with Stuttgart Universitat, Germany) in 1994. In 1994, he underwent a postdoctoral ¨ research stay in the department of mechanical engineering at Laval University, Quebec. Since 2009, he has been a full professor in the department of Electrical Engineering of the University of Mons, Belgium, and is currently the head of the Systems, Estimation, Control, and Optimization group (SECO). He is the co-author of two books on the numerical analysis of partial differential equations, and of more than 250 conference and journal articles on various aspects of process modeling and control. His research interests include non-linear dynamics, parameter and state estimation, dynamic optimization, and process control, with applications to biochemical processes and unmanned aerial vehicles.
