Moritz Diehl received the dual Diploma degree in physics and mathematics from Heidelberg University and Cambridge University in 1999 and the Ph.D. degree from Heidelberg University in 2001. From 2006 to 2013, he was a Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, KU Leuven, Belgium. Since 2013, he has been a Full Professor at the University of Freiburg, Germany, where he heads the Systems Control and Optimization Laboratory, Department of Microsystems Engineering, and is also with the Department of Mathematics. His research interests are in optimization and control, spanning from numerical method development to applications in different branches of engineering, with a focus on embedded real-time implementations and renewable energy systems. Since 2004, Moritz has investigated the use of kites for airborne wind energy and supervised several PhD theses on the subject, including the development of the AWEbox software for optimal control of AWE systems. He organized the AWEC 2011 in Leuven and the AWEC 2017 in Freiburg.