Roeland De Breuker is an associate professor at the Delft University of Technology, department of Aerospace Structures and Materials. Roeland De Breuker joined the Delft University of Technology as Associate Researcher in 2005 after he obtained his MSc degree in the nonlinear characterisation and experiments of piezoelectric benders from the Delft University of Technology in 2004. He obtained his PhD in developing morphing aircraft design tools from the Delft University of Technology in 2011. He was a visiting researcher at the DLR in Göttingen and at Clarkson University in Potsdam, NY, and a visiting professor at Airbus Group Innovations in Munich, Germany. Furthermore, he is chairing the AIAA Adaptive Structures Technical Committee and is a member of the Advisory Council of the Netherlands Aerospace Centre, department of Aerospace Vehicles. Roeland De Breuker's main research activities are smart and aeroelastic structures. He focuses on developing analysis tools, optimising and designing structures and related bench and wind tunnel experiments for code validation and proofs of concept. Roeland De Breuker is involved in multiple European and national Dutch projects in the research fields of smart and aeroelastic structures. He is (co-)advising 15 PhD students, he graduated 11 PhD students as (co-) promotor and is advising/has advised over 70 MSc students. He currently holds 52 refereed journal papers and 3 patents.