We are pleased to announce that Professor Dr. Hamid Reza Karimi has been appointed Section Editor-in-Chief for the section "Systems & Control Engineering" of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). His term started in July 2019.

Hamid Reza Karimi (M’06–SM’09), born in 1976, received his B.Sc. (First Hons.) degree in power systems from the Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 1998 and his M.Sc. and Ph.D. (First Hons.) degrees in control systems engineering from the University of Tehran, Tehran, in 2001 and 2005, respectively. From 2009 to 2016, he was full professor of Mechatronics and Control Systems at the University of Agder in Norway. Since 2016, he has been a professor of Applied Mechanics at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy. His current research interests include control systems and mechatronics with applications to automotive control systems and wind energy.

Prof. Karimi is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Cyber-Physical Systems, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Machines, Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Aerospace System Science and Engineering, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Designs, and Editorial Board Member of various international  journals, such as IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-I: Regular Papers, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Systems, Information  Sciences, IFAC-Mechatronics, International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, Electronics, Neurocomputing, Asian  Journal of Control, Journal of The Franklin  Institute. He is a member of Agder Academy of Science and Letters and also a member of the IEEE Technical Committee on Systems with Uncertainty, the Committee on Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems, the IFAC Technical Committee on Mechatronic Systems, the Committee on Robust Control, and the Committee on Automotive Control. Prof. Karimi was awarded as the 2016, 2017, and 2018 Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher in Engineering.

We would like to warmly welcome Professor Dr. Hamid Reza Karimi as Section Editor-in-Chief and look forward to developing the Section "Systems & Control Engineering" under his leadership.