Current Activities and Positionsprofessional activ.

•  Scientific Director of  the Dutch Institute of Systems and Control (DISC) (2005 - )
•  Team leader of the Dutch Team of the European Research Network on System Identification (ERNSI)
•  Representative of the Dutch IFAC NMO in IFAC. 
•  Member of IFAC Awards Committee (2008-)
•  Chair of IEEE Control Systems Society Fellow Evaluation Committee (2011-)
•  IFAC Fellow, 2007.  
•  IEEE Fellow, 2008.

Former Activities and Positions - selection

•  Automatica Editor for Rapid Publications and Technical Communiques (1999-2005).
•  Member of the IFAC Council (1999-2005)
•  Member of the Board of Governors of IEEE's Control Systems Society (2003-2005)
•  Member of the Administrative Council of the European Union Control Association (EUCA) (1999-2005) 
•  General Chair of the 13th IFAC Symposium on System Identification, SYSID2003, 27-29 August 2003, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
•  Chairman of the IFAC Nichols Medal Selection Committee (2008-2011).
•  International Member of the Committee T3 (Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Electronics) of the Flamish Science Foundation FWO, Belgium. (2005-2011)
•  Member of the board of the Section "Meet-, Regel- en Besturingstechnologie" of the "Stichting voor Postacademisch Technisch Onderwijs" (PATO)

International Invitations

•  Invited semi-plenary lecture, 10th IFAC Symposium on System Identification, Copenhagen, Denmark,  4-6 July, 1994.
•  Invited plenary lecture, 11th IFAC Symposium on System Identification, Kitakyushu, Japan, 8-11 July 1997.
•  Invited plenary lecturer, 1998 Brasilian Control Conference, Uberlandia, Brasil, 14-18 September 1998.
•  Invited semi-plenary state-of-the-art lecture, 2001 IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference,  IMTC-2001, Budapest, Hungary, 21-23 May, 2001.
•  Invited plenary tutorial lecture, IEEE Workshop Advanced Process Control Applications for Industry, Vancouver, Canada, 8-10 May 2006.
•  Invited semi-plenary lecturer, 21st Chinese Control and Decision Conference, June 17-19, 2009, Guilin, China.
•  Invited lectures at Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, and Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, October 2009.
•  Invited keynote paper at 1st IFAC Workshop on Automatic Control in Offshore Oil and Gas Production (ACOOG), 31 May-1 June 2012, Trondheim, Norway.