S. Hassan Hosseinnia received his Ph.D. degree with honors "cum laude" in electrical engineering specializing in automatic control: application in mechatronics, from the University of Extremadura, Spain in 2013. His main research interests are in precision mechatronic system design, precision motion control and mechatronic system with distributed actuation and sensing. He has an industrial background working at ABB, Sweden. He is currently Associate Professor at the Department of Precision and Microsystem Engineering at TU Delft, The Netherlands.

Hassan has (co-)authored over 100 publications in high-impact journals, conference proceedings, and book chapters. He was General Chair of 7th IEEE international Conference in Control, Mechatronics and Automation (ICCMA 2019). He is an IEEE senior member and on the editorial board of following journals: "Fractional Calculus and Applied Analysis", "Frontiers in Control Engineering", and "International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems (SAGE)".