Ron J. Patton was born in Peru in 1949. He graduated from Sheffield University with B.Eng., M.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Control Systems, in 1971, 1974 and 1980, respectively. He currently holds the Chair in Control and Intelligent Systems Engineering at Hull University. He has made a substantial contribution to the field of the modeling and design of robust methods for Fault Detection and Isolation (FDI) and Fault-Tolerant Control (FTC) in dynamic systems as the author of 376 papers, including 138 journal papers and 6 books. His research interests are robust, multiple-model and de-centralized control strategies for FTC systems and FTC methods for renewable energy. He is a Life Fellow of IEEE, Senior Member of AIAA and Fellow of the Institute of Measurement and Control.