User:Acrespo~enwiki/Pedro Albertos

Pedro Albertos Pérez (València, 1943), is Emeritus Professor of the Universitat Politecnica de Valencia in the area of Automatic Control Engineering who has made relevant contributions in the fields of Control theory, Control engineering, computers and Real-time control.

Biography
Pedro Albertos is Industrial Engineer (1968) and Doctorate of Industrial Engineering in Automation (1973) from the Technical University of Madrid (UPM). In 1975 he obtained the Chair of Automatic Control at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Industrial de Bilbao and later (1977) at the Universitat Politecnica de Valencia. From 1977 to 1999, he was Head of the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering. He is currently Professor Emeritus of the UPV.

Pedro Albertos has been awarded Honorary Doctorates by the Technical University of Budapest (Romania) and the University of Oulu  (Finland). He also holds the appointment of Honorary Professor at Northeastern University (Senyang, China). He has been distinguished as a visiting professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Australian National University.

He was appointed President of the IFAC (International Federation of Automatic Control) during the three-year period 2002-2005 being the chairman of the IFAC World Conference held in  Barcelona (2002). He has been appointed IFAC Fellow, IFAC Advisor and Senior Member of IEEE.

Visiting professor at more than 20 universities, he has given seminars at numerous universities and research centers.

Pedro Albertos promoted and chaired the journal Revista Iberoamericana de Automática e Informática (RIAI) which has become a relevant forum for communication among researchers in Spanish in the areas of automatica, robotics and industrial informatics

A leading disseminator of control theory for non-experts, he has developed a number of different webminar and MOOCs.