Germain Garcia received his diploma in engineering from the Institut National des Sciencies Apliquées (INSA), Toulouse, France, in 1984. He also received his Ph.D. degree in Automatic Control from the INSAT in 1988 and the Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR) in 1997 from the same university. He is currently working at the Laboratoire d’Architecture des Systèmes of the Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique (LAAS-CNRS), Toulouse, France as full professor of INSAT. His research interests include robust control theory, linear matrix inequalities (LMI), constrained control and singularity perturbed models.