Professor Haydn Thompson, BSc, PhD. CEng has 20 years experience working in a mixture of senior industrial research and development roles in flight control systems, space programmes and signal processing applications. Since 1993 he has been Programme Manager of the Rolls-Royce Control and Systems University Technology Centre. He is also a consultant to Rolls-Royce, the MoD, the TSB, Formula 1 Racing and the European Commission. He has over 100 publications on applications of distributed systems, multi-disciplinary multi-objective optimisation, gas turbine engine control, fault diagnosis and health monitoring, wireless communications, energy harvesting, rapid prototyping and co-simulation. He has also written two books on gas turbine engine control. He is a member of the International Federation of Automatic Control’s (IFAC) International Aerospace Control, Mechatronics and Real-Time Computing and Control Committees being chair of Embedded Systems, the Institution of Electronic and Electrical Engineers Aerospace Committee, and IEE representative on the Learned Society Board of the Royal Aeronautical Society. He is a member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.