Wim Michiels is an associate professor at KU Leuven, where he leads a research team within the Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics Division. He has coauthored more than 75 journal papers in the areas of control and optimization and computational and applied mathematics, coauthored the monograph Stability and Stabilization of Time Delay Systems: An Eigenvalue-Based Approach (SIAM, 2007), and coedited three other books.