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K. Bousson received an MEng degree in aeronautical engineering from the Ecole Nationale de l’Aviation Civile (ENAC) in 1988, an MSc degree in computer science (with emphasis on artificial intelligence) from Paul Sabatier University in 1989, and a PhD degree in control & computer engineering from the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA) in 1993, all in Toulouse, France. He was a researcher at the LAAS Laboratory of the French National Council for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Toulouse, from 1993 to 1995, and has been a professor in the Department of Aerospace Sciences at the University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal, since 1995. His current research activities include trajectory optimization & guidance, optimal flight control systems, analysis and control of uncertain dynamical systems, and chaos dynamics. Dr. K. Bousson is a Member of the Portuguese Association for Automatic Control (APCA) and a Senior Member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).