Roberto Zanasi was born in Bomporto (MO), Italy, in 1959. He graduated with honors in Electrical Engineering in 1986 at the University of Bologna. In 1992 he received the PhD degree in System Engineering. From 1994 to 1998 he was Researcher in Automatic Control at the Department of Electronics, Computer and System Science, University of Bologna. Since 1998 he has been working as Associate Professor of Automatic Control at the “Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione”, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. From 2004 he is Full Professor in Automatic Control at the ”Enzo Ferrari” Department of Engineering, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. He held the position of Visiting Scientist at the IRIMS of Moscow in 1991, at the MIT of Boston in 1992 and at the Universit´e Catholique de Louvain in 1995. His research interests include: mathematical modelling, Power-Oriented Graphs, simulation, automotive, control of multi-phase electrical motors, variable-structure systems, sliding mode control with integral action, robotics, linear and nonlinear control, etc.. He is author or co-author of many technical and scientific publications, and of five books on automatic control, simulation, and digital control systems.