Vicente Feliu-Batlle received an M.Sc. (Hons.) degree in industrial engineering and a Ph.D. degree in automatic control from the Polytechnical University of Madrid, Spain, in 1979 and 1982, respectively. From 1980 to 1987, he worked in the Electrical Engineering Department, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Madrid, Spain. From 1987 to 1989, he was a Visiting Researcher at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University (USA), and was granted a postdoctoral Fulbright scholarship. In 1990, he became a Full Professor and the Head of the previous Department of the UNED (1991–1994). He has been a Full Professor at the Universidad de Castilla–La Mancha since 1994. From 1994 to 2008, he was the Dean of the School of Industrial Engineering, Universidad de Castilla–La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain. His research interests include multivariable and digital control systems, fractional dynamics and control, the kinematic and dynamic control of rigid and flexible robots, and mechatronics.