Sebastian Trimpe (Member, IEEE) received the B.Sc. degree in general engineering science and the M.Sc. degree (Dipl.-Ing.) in electrical engineering from Hamburg University of Technology, Hamburg, Germany, in 2005 and 2007, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree (Dr. sc.) in mechanical engineering from ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, in 2013. Since 2020, he is a Full Professor with RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, where he heads the Institute for Data Science in Mechanical Engineering. Before, he was an independent Research Group Leader with the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Stuttgart and Tübingen, Germany. His main research interests are in systems and control theory, machine learning, networked and autonomous systems. Dr. Trimpe was a recipient of several awards, including the triennial IFAC World Congress Interactive Paper Prize (2011), the Klaus Tschira Award for achievements in public understanding of science (2014), the Best Paper Award of the International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (2019), and the Future Prize by the Ewald Marquardt Stiftung for innovations in control engineering (2020).