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Van Passen named best Associate Editor of the SMC

Transactions for 2014

M. M. (Rene) van Paassen studied Aerospace Engineering

at the Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

obtaining both the MSc (1988) and PhD (1994) degrees

there on studies into the neuromuscular system of the pilot's

arm. He thereafter was a Brite/EuRam Research Fellow

with the University of Kassel, Germany, working on

means-ends visualization of process control dynamics,

and a post-doc at the Technical University of Denmark.

Since 1997 Rene has worked in Aerospace Engineering at the Delft University of Technology,

first as Assistant Professor, and later as Associate Professor. He works on human-machine

interaction and aircraft simulation. His work on human-machine interaction ranges from

studies of perceptual processes of the visual and vestibular system, and human manual

control, to studies in interface design, complex cognitive systems and human error. For

running the experimental facilities at Aerospace Engineering -- among which a full flight

simulator (www.SIMONA.tudelft.nl), and a Cessna Citation II aircraft configured as a fly-by-

wire testbed and flying classroom -- he wrote DUECA, a real-time distributed middleware

layer. He currently also serves as coordinator for the second and third years of the Aerospace

Engineering BSc. curriculum. He authored or co-authored over 75 journal papers and nearly

300 conference papers. In his career he received the IEEE-SMC Franklin V. Taylor Memorial

Award in 2007, twice received an AIAA Certificate of Merit for a best paper at the AIAA

Modeling and Simulation Technologies conference, and a best paper award at the 2013

American Helicopter Society conference.

Rene has served as associate editor, and as associate editor-in-chief for the IEEE

Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Part A, and he is currently associate editor

for IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems.