Juergen Hahn, the head of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has accepted the position of deputy editor-in-chief of the Journal of Process Control. This international journal publishes wide-ranging research on the application of control theory, operations research, and computer science and engineering principles as they relate to energy, nanotechnology, systems biology, biomedical engineering, pharmaceutical processing, and data analytics, to name a few.

Hahn has served on the journal’s editorial board since 2010 and has served as an editor for three years, working in the area of parameter estimation and biological/biomedical systems.

The position begins July 1 and will last for six years, after which he will take over as editor-in-chief.