Editors

About the Editor

Michael J. Grimble was awarded a first class BSc honours degree in Electrical Engineering in 1970 from Rugby College of Technology. Subsequently he obtained MSc (1971), PhD (1974) and DSc (1982) degrees in Control Engineering from the University of Birmingham and a BA degree in Mathematics from the Open University. He was an apprentice at Ciba-Geigy in Grimsby and after training worked as a systems design engineer for GEC Electrical Projects at Rugby. He was appointed a Professor of Industrial Systems at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, in 1981, where he established the Industrial Control Centre.  He is a research professor in the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering. His research interests are nonlinear and robust control, estimation theory, optimal control, adaptive control and applications.

He is the Technical Director of Industrial Systems and Control Ltd., a company he began with University support more than 30 years ago. He is a founder and a past Chairman of the UKRI Chapter of the IEEE Control Systems Society, has contributed to numerous IEEE and IFAC committees, and chaired their conferences. He is the Managing Editor of the following journals published by Wiley: International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, International Journal of Adaptive Control & Signal Processing, Journal of Optimal Control Applications and Methods and the new journal on Advanced Control Applications: Engineering and Industrial Systems. He was the editor of the Prentice Hall International Series in Systems and Control Engineering. He is currently a joint editor of the Springer monograph series Advances in Industrial Control and of the Springer text book series on Advanced Textbooks on Control and Signal Processing. 

The Institution of Electrical Engineers presented him with the Heaviside Premium in 1978 for his papers on control engineering. The following year, 1979, he was awarded jointly the Coopers Hill War Memorial Prize and Medal by the Institutions of Electrical, Mechanical and Civil Engineering. The Institute of Measurement and Control awarded him the 1991 Honeywell International Medal. He was elected to a Fellow of the IET in 1974, IMA in 1982, and Institute of Measurement and Control in 1990, and Fellow of the IEEE in January 1993. He was recognised at the 1993 Edinburgh International Science Festival as one of Scotland’s four most cited Scientists, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in March 1999.