Vincent D. Blondel is professor of applied mathematics and president of the
Université catholique de Louvain (UCL) in Belgium. He received an engineering degree, a degree in
philosophy, and a PhD in applied mathematics from the Université
catholique de Louvain, and a MSc in pure mathematics from Imperial
College (London, UK). He has also completed a master thesis at the
Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (France). He was a visiting
scientist at Oxford University in 1993. During the academic year
1993-1994, he was the Göran Gustafsson Fellow at the Royal Institute of
Technology (Stockholm, Sweden). In 1993-1994 he was a research fellow
at the French national research center in computer science (INRIA,
Rocquencourt, Paris). From 1994 to 1999 he was an associate professor
at the Institute of Mathematics of the Université de Liège in Belgium.
Dr Blondel was a visitor with the Australian National University
(1991), the University of California at Berkeley (1998), the Santa Fe
Institute (2000) and Harvard University (2001). He has also been an
invited professor at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Lyon (1998) and at
the University of Paris VII (1999 and 2000). In 2005-2006 and in 2010-2011 he was an
invited professor and Fulbright scholar with the Department of
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences of the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (Cambridge, USA). He was the Petar Kokotovic Distinguished Visiting Professor of the University of California in 2012-2013.
Blondel's major current research interests lie in several area of
mathematical control theory, theoretical computer science and network
science. He is a former associate editor of the European Journal of
Control (Springer) and an associate editor of Systems and Control
Letters (Elsevier) and of the Journal on Mathematics of Control,
Signals, and Systems (Springer). For his scientific contributions he
has been awarded of a grant from the Trustees of the Mathematics
Institute of Oxford University (1992), the prize Agathon De Potter of
the Belgian Royal Academy of Science (1993), the prize Paul Dubois of
the Montefiore Institute (1993), the triennal SIAM prize on control and
systems theory (2001), the prize Adolphe Wetrems of the Belgian Royal
Academy of Science (2006), and the Antonio Ruberti prize in systems and
control of the IEEE (2006). He is a fellow of the IEEE. Vincent has directed more than thirty PhD and Master thesis. His recent work on networks has been widely featured, including in Wired, Technology Review, Le Monde, La Recherche, Der Spiegel, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times.