Vita Ernst Dieter Gilles (May 16, 1935 - June 12, 2019)

Biography
1954-1960	Study of Electrical Engineering, TH Darmstadt
1964	Doctorate, TH Darmstadt
1966	Postdoc in Control Engineering, TH Darmstadt
1968-2005	Full Professor and Director of the Institute for System Dynamics and Control Engineering at Stuttgart University
1997-2008	Director at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems
1999	Honorary Professor at Magdeburg University
until May 2011	Head of the Research Group for Systems Biology at MPI Magdeburg

Awards, Honours and Memberships
1967	Dechema Prize of the Max Buchner Research Foundation
1992	Carl Friedrich Gauss Medal
1992	Ernest Solvay Prize
1992	Landesforschungspreis (Research Prize) of Baden-Württemberg
1995	Honorary Doctorate of Hanover University
1995	Honorary Doctorate of TU Donezk/Ukraine
1997	Scientific Member of Max Planck Society
1998	Member of Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
1999	Honorary Doctorate of University Ploiesti/Romania
2000	Corresponding Member of Scientific Society Braunschweig (Braunschweigische Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft)
2001	External Member of Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
2002	Member of the Council of Technical Sciences of the Union of German Academies of Sciences and Humanities
2004	7th Nordic Process Control Award der Nordic Working Group of Process Control
2005	Karl-Küpfmüller-Ring of the Technical University Darmstadt
2005	Honorary Doctorate of Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg
2006	Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Scientific Center of Saxony Anhalt Lutherstadt Wittenberg e. V.
2006 2013	Arnold-Eucken-Medal for specific earnings in the field of Technology Signed in the Golden Book of the City of Magdeburg

Research interests