Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Prof. Dr. ir. Rik PINTELON

Address:
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Faculty of Engineering
Department of Fundamental Electricity and Instrumentation
Buiding K - Room K430
Pleinlaan 2
1050 Brussels
Belgium

Phone: +32 (0)2 629 29 44
Fax: +32 (0)2 629 28 50

Rik.Pintelon@vub.ac.be

Rik Pintelon was born in Gent, Belgium, on December 4, 1959. He received a master’s degree in electrical engineering in 1982, a doctorate (PhD) in engineering in 1988, and the qualification to teach at university level (geaggregeerde voor het hoger onderwijs) in 1994 from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium.
From 1982 to 1984 and 1986 to 2000, Dr. Pintelon was a researcher with the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research (FWO-Vlaanderen) at the Electrical Engineering (ELEC) Department of the VUB. From 1984 to 1986 he did his military service overseas in Tunesia at the Institut National Agronomique de Tunis. From 1991 to 2000 he was a part-time lecturer at the department ELEC of the VUB, where he is currently a full-time professor in electrical engineering. His main research interests include system identification, signal processing, and measurement techniques. Dr. Pintelon is the coauthor of 4 books and the coauthor of about 200 articles in refereed international journals. He has been a Fellow of IEEE since 1998. Dr. Pintelon is the recipient of the 2012 IEEE Joseph F. Keithley Award in Instrumentation and Measurement (IEEE Technical Field Award).