Jan Lunze is Head of the Automatic Control Laboratory at Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, where he teaches systems and control theory. His research interests are in hybrid and discrete-event systems, in fault diagnosis and in control theory of networked systems where he currently coordinates a Priority Programme of the German Science Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft). He is the author or co-author of numerous technical papers and several monographs and textbooks.