Daniel Coutinho (Senior Member IEEE) received a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil, in 1989 and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), Florianopolis, Brazil in 1993 and 2003, respectively. In 2001, he was a Visiting Scholar with The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia. From 1992 to 1997, he was a Lecturer with the Electronics Department, Federal Institute of Technology of Santa Catarina (IFSC), Florianópolis. From 1998 to 2010, he was with the Faculty of Engineering, Pontif´ıcia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUC-RS), Porto Alegre. In 2010, he joined the Department of Automation and Systems, UFSC. In 2008 and 2018, he spent sabbatical years in the Service d’Automatique at UMONS and Service d’Automatique et d’Analyse des Systèmes at ULB, respectively. His research interests include stability analysis, performance, control, and state estimation of uncertain and nonlinear systems. Dr. Coutinho is an Associate Editor of the IMA Journal of Mathematical Controland Information, International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, and IEEE Control Systems Letters.