Dr. Martin Mönnigmann received his diploma and Ph.D. degrees from RWTH Aachen University, Germany, in 1998 and 2004, respectively. He was a postdoctoral research scholar at Princeton University from 2004 to 2005, deputy director of the Aachen Institute for Advanced Study in Computational Engineering from 2005 to 2007, and assistant professor at Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany, from 2007 to 2009. In 2009, he was appointed full professor and head of the chair for Automatic Control and Systems Theory, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany. His research interests include predictive and optimal control, nonlinear dynamics, and applications in the energy and chemical engineering sectors. He is an associate editor of the Journal of Process Control and Automatica.