Yann Le Gorrec is Professor of Automatic Control and System Dynamics at Engineering School of Micromechanics and Microsystems (ENSMM) in Besançon France and at FEMTO-ST. He is director of the AS2M department of the FEMTO-ST Institute and chair of the IFAC Technical Committee T2.6 Distributed Parameter Systems. From 1999 to 2008, he was Associate Professor in Automatic Control at the Laboratory of Control and Chemical Engineering of Lyon Claude Bernard University (LAGEP, Villeurbanne, France). He received his Ph.D. degree from the National Higher School of Aeronautics and Aerospace (Supaero, Toulouse, France). His work focuses on modeling, simulation and control of non linear and distributed parameter systems using the port Hamiltonian framework.

Giovanni Fantuzzi is a W1 Professor in Applied Mathematics at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg.

His research interests are in optimization, dynamical systems, fluid mechanics, and partial differential equations. In particular, he seeks to study complex dynamical problems such as heat transport by fluid flows by combining mathematical analysis with computational tools for convex optimization. He is also interested in developing fast algorithms for large-scale optimization problems with structure, especially conic problems and polynomial optimization problems.

Prof. Birgit Jacob obtained an M.Sc. degree in mathematics from the University of Dortmund, Germany, in 1992 and a Ph.D. degree in mathematics from the University of Bremen, Germany, in 1995.

She held postdoctoral and Professor positions at the University of Twente, University of Leeds, University of Paderborn, Berlin University of Technology, and at the Delft University of Technology.

Since 2010, she has been with the University of Wuppertal, Germany, where she is a Full Professor in analysis. From 2012-2016, she was Vice Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences.

Birgit Jacob is the program director of the SIAM Activity Group on Control and Systems Theory and the coordinator of this EU MSCA Doctoral Network ModConFlex. Her current research interests include the area of infinite-dimensional systems and operator theory, particularly well-posed linear systems and port-Hamiltonian systems.

Rafael Palacios is the Professor of Computational Aeroelasticity and director of the Brahmal Vasudevan Institute for Sustainable Aviation at Imperial College London. He is Aeronautical Engineer from Universidad Politécnica, Madrid, and PhD in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Michigan, where he was a Fulbright fellow. Before his PhD he spent four years in Airbus. His research is on computational methods in aeroservoelasticity and fluid-structure interactions, with applications to aeroelastic design, feedback control and optimization of flexible air vehicles and wind turbines.

Rafael received the best undergraduate student award by the Spanish Institute of Aeronautics and the 2005 AIAA Foundation Orville & Wilbur Wright Graduate Award for best PhD thesis in aerospace engineering in the US. Rafael is associate editor of the Journal of Aircraft, a fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society and an associate fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He is the lead author of the book Flexible Aircraft Dynamics (Cambridge University Press, 2023).

Michael Smailes received his M.Eng. from the University of Edinburgh in 2011 and went on to complete his D.Eng. through the Industrial Doctoral Centre for Offshore Renewable Energy (IDCORE) CDT run by the Universities of Edinburgh, Strathclyde and Exeter in 2017.

Michael now leads the Future Energy Systems research team at the Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult (ORE Catapult) which specialises in the grid integration and grid compliance of offshore renewables, hydrogen and energy storage systems. His research interests include: development of advanced grid compliance techniques, control solutions for ancillary grid services (e.g. black start, grid forming and frequency support), dynamic electrical modelling of electrolyser stacks, energy storage degradation modelling and wind to hydrogen integration.

Marius Tucsnak is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Bordeaux, France. Previously, he held positions as Professor of Mathematics at the University of Lorraine, Nancy, and assistant professor at the university of Versailles. Marius Tucsnak holds a PhD from the University of Orléans followed by a Habilitation at the University of Paris 6.

Marius Tucsnak's main research interests are the analysis and the control of infinite dimensional systems, in particular those modelling fluid-structure interactions. His work on control theory includes issues like reachability and controllability, and it achieved developing new tools of mathematical analysis (like Ingham-Beurling type inequalities or new connections with analytic functions theory). His main results on fluid-structure interactions concern the motion of rigids or fish-like swimmers in a viscous fluid and they are at the origin of several new directions in this emerging field.