Andrzej Janusz Osiadacz is a Professor at the Warsaw University of Technology, a specialist in the areas of Automatics and Robotics, as well as Gas Engineering. He has worked as a Visiting Professor at the Control Systems Center of the University of Manchester and the Mathematics and Computing Division of British Gas as a Senior Scientist dealing with the problems of optimal control of the gas network of Great Britain. Since 1991, he has been working at the Warsaw University of Technology as the Head of the Department of Gas Engineering. He has over 140 publications, including 7 books.