Prof. Andres KECSKEMETHY was born in Lima, Peru and graduated from the University of Stuttgart in Mechanical Engineering in 1984, receiving his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Duisburg in 1993. From 1994 to 1995, he stayed as a senior guest researcher at the Centre for Intelligent Machines at McGill University with a fellowship from the German Research Foundation (DFG). In 1996, Dr. Kecskemethy was appointed Professor at the Technical University of Graz, where he held the Chair for Mechanics until 2002. In 2002, Professor Kecskeméthy moved to the University of Duisburg-Essen, where he held the Chair for Mechanics and Robotics at the Institute of Mechatronics and System Dynamics until 2024. He is since 2024 Senior Professor at the University of Duisburg-Essen. He was bestowed with the Doctor honoris causa from Riga Technical University on 2018. He was Editor-In-Chief of the Journal Mechanism and Machine Theory from 2004 to 2015. He served as Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and as Chairman of the Senate of the University Duisburg-Essen. His memberships include the International Federation for the Promotion of Mechanism and Machine Science IFToMM. Since 2013, he was Chair of IFToMM MO Germany, and since 2020 he is IFToMM President for the term 2020-2023, being re-elected for the period 2024-2027. Professor Kecskeméthy has worked in the areas of kinematics and dynamics of multibody systems, covering topics such as modelling and control of mechatronic systems, vehicle dynamics, design of legged machines, biomechanics, virtual reality as well as medical and heavy-weight robotics. He received, apart from three best-paper awards, several institutional awards such as the Award of the University of Minho for Scientific Cooperation, the ASME Design Engineering Division Mechanism and Robotics Award, the Award “Illustrious Scientist of the Ibero-American Association of Mechanical Engineers”, the IFToMM “Dedicated Services Award”, the “Best Editor in Chief Award” from Elsevier, the Honorary Academician Award of the National Engineering Academy of the Republic of Kazakhstan, and two Best Teacher Awards. He received four Humboldt fellows. He has organized several international conferences [IAK 2008, IAK 2013, IAK 2018, Computational Kinematics 2009, ECCOMAS Multibody Dynamics 2019, International Symposium on Theory and Practice of Robots and Manipulators (ROMANSY) 2022, Advances in Robot Kinematics (ARK) 2022], and is the author of more than 250 proceedings and journal papers.