Information
Membership Number: FCA2514
Membership Type: Fellowship
Division: Engineering and Applied Sciences
Corresponding Email: *****olfi@imperial.ac.uk
Homepage(s): https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/a.astolfi
Present and Previous Positions
Professor of Nonlinear Control Theory, Imperial College London
Lecturer in Nonlinear Control Theory at the Automatic Control Laboratory, ETH Zurich (1995-1996).
Visiting Lecturer on Control of Constrained Systems at the Terza University of Rome (1996).
Lecturer in Control Engineering, Imperial College, London (1996-2000).
Associate Professor at Dept. of Electronics and Information, Politecnico di Milano, Milan (1998-2003).
Visiting Lecturer on Nonlinear Control at Rice University, Houston (1999).
Visiting Professor in Nonlinear Control at Kepler University, Linz (2000).
Senior Lecturer in Control Engineering at the Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College, London (2000-2002).
Visiting Professor in Nonlinear Control at SUPELEC, Paris (2001).
Reader in Nonlinear Control Theory, Imperial College, London (2002-2005).
Visiting Fellow at the Mittag-Leffler Institute, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, (May-June 2003).
Professor of Nonlinear Control Theory, Imperial College, London (2005-).
Professor at Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile e Ingegneria Informatica, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome (2005-).
Fields of Scholarship and Research Interests
Ph.D. degree with Medal of Honor with a thesis on discontinuous stabilization of nonholonomic systems from ETH-Zürich, Zürich
Ph.D. degree with a thesis on robust control from the University of Rome La Sapienza
Nonlinear control theory, Adaptive and robust control, Model reduction, Game theory, Geometric control theory, Discontinuous stabilization
Honors, Awards and Other Membership
Philip Leverhulme Prize. The prize is "to recognize the outstanding research achievements of young scholars of distinction and promise based in UK institutions" (2003).
Recipient of the IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS) A. Ruberti Young Researcher Prize (2007) The Prize is given annually to "recognize distinguished cutting-edge contributions by a young researcher to the theory or application of systems and control".
The IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Googol Best New Application Paper Award (2009)
The IEEE CSS George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award (2012), the Automatica Best Paper Award (2017), and the IEEE T. on Control Systems Technology Outstanding Paper Award (2023)
Recipient of the 2015 Sir Harold Hartley Medal, for outstanding contribution to the technology of measurement and control, from the Institute of Measurement and Control
Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology and the International Federation of Automatic Control
IEEE Fellow (2009): for contributions to nonlinear control theory and its applications to mechanical, electromechanical and power systems
Member of Academia Europea (2016)
The IEEE CSS Distinguished Member Award (2012)
Selected Publications
https://scholar.google.ae/citations?user=Ogh_wa0AAAAJ&hl=en
Other Information
https://ieeecss.org/contact/alessandro-astolfi
https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Astolfi_Alessandro