Dan Selișteanu received a B.Eng. in 1989 and a Ph.D. in automatic control in 1999 from the University of Craiova, Romania. Since 1991, he has been working at the University of Craiova, where in 2007 he became a Professor in the Department of Automatic Control and Electronics. In 2005, he was awarded an Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF) Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, which he spent at HEUDIASYC CNRS, Compiègne, France. He was a visiting professor at the Institute of Automatic Control, Lodz University of Technology, Poland (2016). He is the author or co-author of more than 200 papers published in various scientific journals, conference proceedings, and contributions to books. His research interests include mainly control systems and their applications: adaptive and sliding mode control, modelling and control of bioprocesses, automotive control, and biomedical applications. Prof. Selişteanu is an Associate Editor-in-Chief of the System Theory, Control and Computing Journal, and he is also on the editorial boards of other journals including Complexity (Wiley-Hindawi), Acta Polytechnica Hungarica, and International Journal of Artificial Intelligence.