Prof.dr.ir. M. (Max) Mulder

Prof.dr.ir. M. (Max) Mulder

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Max Mulder studied Aerospace Engineering at the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), where he specialized in avionics, flight dynamics, control theory and human-machine systems. He received his MSc degree and PhD degree (cum laude) in Aerospace Engineering from TU Delft in 1992 and 1999, respectively, for his work on the cybernetics of perspective tunnel-in-the-sky displays.

He started in 1999 as an assistant professor (associate, 2006) and was appointed in 2009 as the first Full Professor Aerospace Human-Machine Systems at the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, TU Delft, also becoming the Head of the Control and Simulation section (www.cs.lr.tudelft.nl). From 2009 to 2019 he led the new Department of Control and Operations, which includes the section Control and Simulation (C&S). The department has approximately 45 academic staff and 15 supporting staff members, and is responsible for all research, education and valorisation of safe, efficient and environmentally-friendly operations of aerospace vehicles. The section Control and Simulation is currently the largest section of the faculty of Aerospace Engineering and hosts 75+ PhD students and 250+ MSc students.

In 2021 Max was elected the TU Delft Professor of Excellence, the highest distinction for an individual from TU Delft, for his outstanding contributions to education, research and organisation. Quoting the jury: “The jury considers Professor Mulder to be a true Professor of Excellence, a consummate professional with outstanding research qualities who also excels in every aspect of coaching students, doctoral candidates and colleagues.”

Prof. Mulder’s research interests are twofold. First, manual control cybernetics and its use in modelling pilot perception and performance, in particular the modelling of human self-motion perception and neuromuscular dynamics, with applications in flight simulation and haptic control interfaces. Second, cognitive systems engineering and its application in the design of ecological human-machine systems for professionals working in the transport domain (pilots, air traffic controllers, drivers, ship-operators, UAV tele-operators).

Max has been the recipient of the prestigious NWO VIDI grant (Netherlands’ Science Foundation, 2005) and many other grants from industry (Nissan, Boeing, Mitsubishi, BMW), research laboratories (NLR, TNO, Eurocontrol, DLR), and government (NWO, Dutch Min. of Economic Affairs, European Union, SESAR). Recent grants include a Horizon2020 contract on “Haptic Flight Envelope Protection” (Airbus and many other European industries, 2015-2018), a TNO (Dutch Institute for Applied Science) contract on “Loss of Control Mitigation Strategies” (2016-2020), and four large contracts for major Japanese and German industries (all non-disclosed in a strict NDA).

Since 1994, Max supervised and graduated 360+ MSc and 63 PhD students. He (co-)authored more than 700 peer-reviewed academic publications, of which 165 ISI journal papers. Max is senior associate editor for the IEEE Transactions of Human-Machine Systems, the ACM Transactions on Applied Perception, and member of the editorial board of The International Journal of Aerospace Psychology.

Max received “best-of-conference” paper awards from (amongst other conferences) the IEEE Systems Man Cybernetics conference (2006, 2010, 2014), IFAC Human-Machine Systems conference (2016, 2019, 2022), International Symposium on Aviation Psychology (2013, 2019, 2021) and the AIAA Scitech conference (2008, 2016, 2017). He won the prestigious “Andrew P. Sage Best Transactions Paper Award” in 2019 for the “best journal paper published in the IEEE Systems, Man & Cybernetics Transactions”. He spent sabbaticals in Cambridge, USA (2000) and in Tübingen, Germany at the Max Planck Biological Cybernetics Inst. (2011); he is elected AIAA Associate Fellow and IEEE Senior Member.

Prof. Mulder has been invited lecturer at many seminars, organizer of several international conferences, symposia and special sessions, is a member of three journal editorial boards, and an active reviewer for twelve other major journals. He has been involved in program and technical committees, and has acted as an invited keynote/plenary speaker, reviewer, and session chair at many international conferences. Max teaches (under)graduate courses on (stochastic) signal analysis, telecommunication, (stochastic) control systems, atmospheric flight dynamics, avionics & air traffic management, and human-machine systems.

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  • 2022-9-15

    2022 IFAC HMS Best Paper Award

    Probabilistic Perspective on Compensatory, Pursuit and Preview Manual Control

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  • 2021-6-3

    Leermeesterprijs 2021

    Prof.dr.ir. Max Mulder, hoogleraar Control & Simulation van de afdeling Control & Operations bij de Faculteit Luchtvaart- en Ruimtevaarttechniek (LR) is donderdag 3 juni door het Universiteitsfonds Delft uitgeroepen tot Leermeester 2021. Mulder is voorgedragen door prof.dr. Henri Werij (decaan van de Faculteit LR), collega’s in zijn vakgebied, studievereniging VSV ‘Leonardo Da Vinci’ en voormalige masterstudenten en promovendi. “Professor Mulder ontvangt de Leermeesterprijs voor zijn bijzondere rollen in het onderwijs, onderzoek en de organisatie. In Professor Mulder herkent de jury een echte Leermeester, een vakman die naast zijn uitmuntende kwaliteiten als onderzoeker ook excelleert in de brede coaching van studenten, promovendi en collega’s”, aldus prof. van Keulen, Voorzitter jury Leermeesterprijs 2021.

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  • 2021-5-21

    Stanley N. Roscoe Best Student Paper Award

    For the paper "Flight Allocation in Shared Human-Automation En-Route Air Traffic Control"
    21st International Symposium on Aviation Psychology

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  • 2020-10-22

    IEEE Thesis Grant Initiative PhD-HMS Grant

    PhD-HMS Grant for: How humans use preview information in manual control


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  • 2019-10

    Andrew P. Sage Best Transaction Paper 2018

    The Andrew P. Sage Best Transaction Paper is selected from all 2018 publications of the SMC transaction journals: e.g., Transactions on Human-Machine Systems, Transactions on Cybernetics. Criteria include: originality, technical merit, potential impact to the SMCS Field of Interest, and presentation quality.

    IEEE Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics

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