Adrien Badel received the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from the National Institute of Applied Sciences of Lyon and the Ph.D. degree in vibration control and energy harvesting from the Electrical Engineering and Ferroelectricity Laboratory, INSA Lyon, Villeurbanne, France, in 2002 and 2005, respectively. From 2005 to 2007, he was a Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Postdoctoral Fellow with the Institute of Fluid Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan. He is currently a Full Professor with the Laboratory of Systems and Materials for Mechatronics, University of Savoie Mont Blanc, Annecy, France. His current research interests include energy harvesting, vibration damping, and piezoelectric actuators modeling and control.