Sebastián Dormido

Prof. Sebastián Dormido Bencomo

eMail: sdormido[at]dia.uned.es

Organization: UNED, Spain

Address: Dept. Informática y Automática, Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Informática, UNED, 28040 Madrid, Spain

Sebastián Dormido received his BSc and MSc degree in Physics from Universidad Complutense de Madrid in 1968 and 1969 and a PhD in Science from Universidad del Pais Vasco in 1971. Since 1975 he has been Full Professor at Facultad de Ciencias Físicas of Universidad Complutense de Madrid (1975-1982) and Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Informática at UNED (1982-). He has served as Vicerrector of Research (1983-1985) in UNED. His research interest is: Computer Control, Event Based Control, Modelling-Simulation and Control Education with emphasis on Remote and Virtual labs. He has authored or co-authored over 250 technical papers in international journals and conferences and has supervised 35 Ph.D. students. From 2001-2006 has been President of the Spanish Association of Automatic Control, CEA-IFAC. In 2007 received a Doctor Honorary Degree from Universidad de Huelva, in 2008 the National Automatic Control prize from Spanish Automatic Control Committee and in 2013 received a Doctor Honorary Degree from Universidad de Almería. From 2014 is the Chair of the IFAC Technical Committee on Control Education (TC9.4).