Victor M. Becerra is a Professor of Automatic Control in the School of Systems Engineering at the University of Reading. He was previously a Research Fellow in the Control Engineering Research Centre at City University, London. He is an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Modelling, Identification and Control and co-authored the book Strategies for Feedback Linearisation. He is a Senior Member of the AIAA and IEEE and a Fellow of the IET. He studied electrical engineering at Simon Bolivar University, Venezuela before receiving his Ph.D. in Control Engineering from City University, London.