Gabor Stepan received the MSc and PhD degrees in mechanical engineering from Budapest

University of Technology and Economics, Hungary, in 1978 and 1982, respectively, and the

DSc degree from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary, in 1994. He was

a Visiting Researcher in the Mechanical Engineering Department of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, during 1988–1989, the Laboratory of Applied Mathematics and Physics of the Technical University of Denmark in 1991, and the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the Delft  University of Technology during 1992–1993. He was a Fulbright Visiting Professor at the Mechanical Engineering Department of the California Institute of Technology during 1994–1995, and a Visiting Professor at the Department of Engineering Mathematics of Bristol University in 1996. He is currently a Professor Emeritus of Applied Mechanics at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. He is a fellow of CIRP and SIAM, received the Delay Systems Lifetime Achievements Award of IFAC, the Caughey Dynamics Award and the Lyapunov Award of ASME. He is a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Europe. His research interests include nonlinear vibrations in delayed dynamical systems, and applications in mechanical engineering and biomechanics such as wheel dynamics (rolling, braking, shimmy), robotic force control, machine tool vibrations, human balancing, and traffic dynamics.