Peter J. Gawthrop: Biographical details

Peter J. Gawthrop was born in Seascale, Cumberland, in 1952. He obtained his BA (first class honours), D.Phil. and MA degrees in Engineering Science from Oxford University in 1973, 1977, and 1979 respectively. Following a period as a Research Assistant with the Department of Engineering Science at Oxford University, he became W. W. Spooner Research Fellow at New College, Oxford. He then moved to the University of Sussex as a Lecturer, and later a Reader in control engineering.

In 1987, he took up the Wylie Chair of Control Engineering in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Glasgow University. Within the the Faculty of Engineering, he was involved in founding the Centre for Systems and Control - a cross-departmental research grouping at Glasgow with about twelve full time academic staff including four professors.

In 1994 he was awarded the Honeywell International Medal by the Institute of Measurement and Control.

In 1999 he spent a year in Australia at the Universities of Newcastle and Sydney.

Since 2002 he has been a Senior Research Fellow at Glasgow and has had visiting appointments at:

The University of Birmingham,
The University of Bristol,
Manchester Metropolitan University,
The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology,
The University of Newcastle (NSW) and
The University of Sydney

His research interests include self-tuning control, predictive control, intermittent control, substructuring, continuous-time system identification and system modelling - particularly using bond graphs in the context of partially-known systems. He is interested in applying control techniques to a number of areas including mechanical and biomedical systems. He has coauthored and authored some 290 conference and journal articles and three books in these areas.

He was an associate editor of Automatica and an honorary editor of IEE Proceedings Pt. D, and has served on the editorial boards of a number of journals including the IMechE Journal of Systems and Control, Journal of Process Control, IMA Journal of Mathematical Control and Information and the International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal processing and the European Journal of Control

He is a Fellow of the IET and I Mech E, a Senior Member of the IEEE, a Chartered Engineer in the UK and a Eur.Ing. in the EU.