Dr Wolfgang Borutzky is a professor of modelling and simulation of engineering systems at Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences, Germany. He is the author of a 2010 Springer monograph on Bond Graph Methodology and of a 2015 Springer book on Bond Graph Model-based Fault Diagnosis in Hybrid Systems. He is also the editor and a co-author of a 2011 Springer compilation text on Bond Graph Modelling of Engineering Systems with contributions from experts in various fields from all over the world. Since 1990 he has served in many international scientific conferences on Modelling and Simulation in various capacities and has published in the proceedings of many international conferences on Modelling and Simulation and in refereed scientific journals.