Jan Maciejowski graduated from Sussex University in 1971 with a B.Sc degree in Automatic Control, and from Cambridge University in 1978 with a Ph.D degree in Control Engineering. From 1971 to 1974 he was a Systems Engineer with Marconi Space and Defence Systems Ltd, working mostly on attitude control of spacecraft and high-altitude balloon platforms. He is a Professor Emeritus of Control Engineering at Cambridge, now partly retired. retired since November 2018. He is also the President and a Fellow Emeritus of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and currently a Visiting Professor at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is was one of the Principal Investigators in Phase 1 of the Cambridge CARES project.

From 2009 to 2014 he was the Head of the Information Engineering Divisionat Cambridge. From 2008 to 2018 he was President of Pembroke College, Cambridge. He was the President of the European Union Control Associationfrom 2003 to 2005, and was President of the Institute of Measurement and Control for 2002. He is a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), the Institute of Measurement and Control (InstMC), and of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC). He was a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Control Systems Society from 2001 to 2007.

I am not accepting any new PhD students, since I am now partly retired.