IN CONVERSATION WITH PROFESSOR DAVID LIMEBEER ON SCIENCE WISE

Professor David Limebeer’s research is in the field
of engineering dynamics and control theory. He obtained
his BSc in Electrical Engineering from the University of the
Witwatersrand and completed both his MSc and PhD
degrees at the University of Natal. He subsequently
received a DSc from the University of London and an MA
degree from the University of Oxford. He held a
postdoctoral position at the University of Cambridge
before joining the Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Department at Imperial College London. He was also a
Statutory Professor of Control Engineering at the
University of Oxford. He is currently a Distinguished
Professor in the School of Electrical and Information
Engineering at WITS. Prof Limebeer has supervised 31
PhD candidates and 19 postdoctoral researchers. He has
published 250 peer-reviewed articles and two books and
has held several consultancy posts at companies such as
Ducati, Ferrari, GM and McLaren. His accolades include
two South African Institute of Electrical Engineers Prizes
and the O. Hugo Schuck Best Paper Award at the
American Control Conference.