Carsten Skovmose Kallesøe received the M.Sc. and the Ph.D. within control engineering from Aalborg University, Denmark in 1998 and 2005, respectively. In the main part his career, he has been affiliated with the water industry and as such been part of many innovative control solutions for pumping systems and water networks. He got honored for his work by the Danish Society of Engineers (IDA) with Elektroprisen in 2013. Carsten is member of IEEE-Control Systems Society (CSS) and Danish Academy of Technical Sciences (ATV). Currently, Carsten is working as Chief Control Specialist at Grundfos, and Professor at Aalborg University. His main research interests are automatic control and fault detection in large scale water networks and waterborne HVAC systems, with special focus on improving energy efficiency and reduce losses.