Antonios Tsourdos

Biography

Professor Tsourdos obtained a MEng in Electronic, Control and Systems Engineering from the University of Sheffield (1995), an MSc in Systems Engineering from Cardiff University (1996) and a PhD in Nonlinear Robust Autopilot Design and Analysis from Cranfield University (1999). He joined Cranfield University in 1999 as a lecturer and was appointed Head of the Centre for Autonomous and Cyber-Physical Systems in 2007, Professor of Autonomous Systems and Control in 2009, and Director of Research – Aerospace, Transport and Manufacturing in 2015. Professor Tsourdos was a member of Team Stellar, the winning team for the UK Ministry of Defence Grand Challenge in 2008, and an IET Innovation Award in 2009 (Team category). Professor Tsourdos is an editorial board member of: Proceedings of the IMechE Part G Journal of Aerospace Engineering IEEE Transactions of Aerospace and Electronic Systems Aerospace Science & Technology International Journal of Systems Science Systems Science & Control Engineering International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences. Professor Tsourdos is Chair of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) Technical Committee on Aerospace Control, and a member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Unmanned Systems Integration and Outreach Committee; the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Control System Society Technical Committee on Aerospace Control (TCAC) and the IMechE Mechatronics, Informatics and Control Group board. TIM Associate Editor (2015-2016)