Anouar Belahcen (M13-SM15) is a professor in computational electromechanics at Aalto University in Finland. His research interests are the numerical modeling of electrical machines, magnetic materials characterization and modeling, coupled magneto-mechanical problems, magnetic forces and magnetostriction, iron losses, and fault diagnostics of electrical machines. He is a senior member of the IEEE Society and a member of the first Board (AdCom) of the ICEM NPO, which manages the ICEM conferences, and a member of the ICS board, which manages the COMPUMAG conference. He has authored or co-authored more than 90 journal papers and several conference papers, many of which are the result of joint international cooperation, with French, German, Austrian, Spanish, Italian, Belgian, Portuguese, and Chinese research groups. Besides his work at Aalto University, he has been working as an invited professor at Tallinn University of Technology in Estonia since 2011, where he teaches subjects related to electrical machines and supervises Ph.D. and postdoc researchers.