Prof Christopher Edwards holds a chair in Control Engineering at the University of Exeter. He began his academic career in the department of Engineering at the University of Leicester as a Lecturer in 1996. He was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2004, Reader in 2008 and awarded a Personal Chair in 2010. He moved to Exeter University in 2012. He is a Senoir Member of the IEEE and a member of the IMA. He is a subject editor for the International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, a former Associate Editor of the IEEE transactions on Automatic Control and an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology. He is currently Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Variable Structure Systems and a member of the IFAC Safeprocess Technical Committee.

His current research interests are in sliding mode control and observation, and their application to fault detection and fault tolerant control problems. He is the author of over 400 refereed papers and five books: Sliding Mode Control: Theory and Applications (1998), Fault Detection and Fault Tolerant Control using Sliding Modes (2011); Sliding Mode Control and Observation (2014); Fault Tolerant Control Schemes Using Integral Sliding Modes (2016) and Variable Structure Control of Complex Systems: Analysis and Design (2017)). In addition, he co-edited the monograph Fault Tolerant Flight Control: a Benchmark Challenge (2010). He has supervised 16 PhD students predominantly in the area of sliding mode control, fault detection and fault tolerant control.

Research group: http://emps.exeter.ac.uk/engineering/research/structures-dynamics/control/