Jean-Charles Maré is a Professor at Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA), Toulouse, France. He holds a degree in mechanical engineering from INSA and a doctorate from Université de Lyon, France. He teaches mechanic and fluid power systems with special focus on architecture design and system-level modeling and simulation. In charge of research activity at Institut Clément Ader in Toulouse, France, he has created a team working on embedded actuation systems and components. His expertise includes preliminary design, virtual prototyping, and testing of safety-critical actuators for aerospace applications. Since the early 2000s, he has been a regular contributor to numerous research projects dealing with more electric actuation for aerospace. He is a member of the SAE A-6 technical committee, the author of Aerospace Actuators, a three-volume book series, and chair of the International Conference on Recent Advances in Aerospace Actuation Systems and Components (R3ASC) that he initiated in 2001.