Prof. Antonios Tsourdos is a Professor of Autonomous Systems and Control at Cranfield University. He was appointed Head of the Autonomous Systems Group, Cranfield Defence and Security in 2007, Head of the Centre of Autonomous and Cyber-Physical Systems, School of Aerospace, Transport and Manufacturing in 2012 and Director of Research-Aerospace, Transport and Manufacturing in 2015. He is a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society, he has served (2017-2023) as chair of the IFAC Technical Committee on Aerospace Control. He obtained an MEng in Electronic, Control, and Systems Engineering from the University of Sheffield (1995), an MSc in Systems Engineering from Cardiff University (1996), and a PhD in Nonlinear Robust Flight Control Design and Analysis from Cranfield University (1999). His research is focused on autonomy. He has published widely on guidance, control, and navigation for single and multiple autonomous vehicles as well as mission planning and multi-agent systems.