Biography of Michel de Mathelin
Education
- Habilitation à diriger des recherches, Université Louis Pasteur - Strasbourg University, France, January 1999.
- Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, January 1993.
- M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, December 1988.
- Electrical Engineering 5-years degree, Louvain University, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, completed with La plus Grande Distinction, June 1987.
Professional Experience
- Full Professor at Strasbourg University, Télécom Physique Strasbourg (former ENSPS), since september 1999.
- Associate Professor (Maître de Conférences) at Strasbourg University, Physics Department, from september 1993 to august 1999.
- Researcher at the Chaire d’Electricité de l’Ecole Polytechnique de l’Ecole Royale Militaire in Brussels (Belgium), from september 1991 to august 1992.
Responsibilities
- Vice-President for Innovation and Technology Transfer of the University of Strasbourg since January 2017.
- Director of the ICube laboratory (UMR CNRS-UNISTRA 7357) with more than 650 people, since January 1st, 2013.
- Coordinator of Robotex, the national network of robotics platforms, selected in February 2011 as an equipment of excellence.
- Scientific Representative of the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS-INSIS) for Robotics and Automation, from April 2006 to July 2011 and Scientific Delegate in charge of the interface between INSIS and INS2I from January 2012 to September 2014.
- Advisor for Computer Science and Engineering at Strasbourg University from 2009 to 2012, in charge of building the ICube laboratory project.
- Head of the Automation, Vision and Robotics research team (60 people) inside the former LSIIT Laboratory (UMR CNRS-UNISTRA 7005) from 2000 to 2012.
- Member of the board of Alsace Biovalley, the life sciences cluster since 2008 and Vice-President from 2008 to 2011.
- Head of the Master of Sciences Medical Imaging and Surgical Robotics (IRMC) from 2006 to 2018.
- Research Director at Télécom Physique Strasbourg since 2004.
- Associate Editor of the IEEE Control System Technology Journal from 2003 to 2011.
- Member of the board of the European Control Association (EUCA) from 2003 to 2010 and Secretary of the Association from 2005 to 2010.
- Member of the Conseil National des Universités (CNU) - 61ème section from 1998 to 2003.
Awards
- BAEF Fellow : 20,000 USD Scholarship from the Belgian American Educational Foundation (1987).
- Best vision paper award at the IEEE ICRA 2004.
- 2005 King-Sun Fu Memorial, Best Transactions on Robotics Paper Award.
- Electronics Poster Awards – Cum Laude at the Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology Society of Europe (CIRSE) 2011 Congress, Munich, Germany, September 2011.
- Interventional MR Study Group Poster Award, 1st place for Technical Developments at the Joint Annual Meeting ISMRM - ESMRMB, Milan, Italy, May 2014.
- Summa Cum Laude Third Prize of the MRE-Study Group meeting at the ISMRM Annual Meeting ISMRM, Singapour, May 2016.
- Cum Laude Poster Award at the European Congress of Radiology (ECR), Vienna, Austria, March 2018.
- Innovation Trophy - 2013 Laureate of INPI Alsace.
- Chevalier de l’ordre des Palmes Académiques in 2015.
- IEEE Senior member since 2002.