Frédéric VANDERHAEGEN was Reseacher of the National Scientific Research Center (CNRS) from 1995 to 2005 after defending his PhD thesis on Human and Industrial Engineering in France and doing a post-doctorate research project at Ispra in Italy. In 2004, he directed for 10 years the Human-Machine Systems (HMS) team of the Laboratory of Automatic Control, Mechanics and Computer Science for Industrial and Human Engineering (LAMIH) of the Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France in Valenciennes, France where he realized his activities of research adn teaching since 2005 as Professor. He is now President of the Research Group on Integrated Automation and HMS (GRAISyHM) that gathers all the laboratores in Automatic Control of the Hauts-de-France region in France. He is also Director of the Human factors pole of the Network of Excellence in Railway Research (EURNEX). He is co-chair on Edication of the technical committee on HMS of the Intenatioanl Federation on Automatic Control (IFAC) after being its chair for 6 years. His research topics concern HMS, learning system, human reliability, human-machine cooperation, resilience engineering, human-systems inclusion and dissonance, transport and industrial systems. He wrote several papers on international journals and conferences and directed couples of international, national and regional research projects.