As you can see below, we are a sizable and well-interconnected team with everyone being either formally co-advised or being integrated through various collaborations. I suppose that's the way we roll.

Aside from the people listed below, we are also supported by many bachelor and master students completing their thesis projects in our group.

Doctoral Students

• Nicolas Lanzetti (co-advised with Saverio Bolognani)

• Verena Haeberle (co-advised with Eduardo Prieto)

• Michael Schneeberger (co-advised with Silvia Mastellone)

• Ezzat Elokda (co-advised with Saverio Bolognani, Andrea Censi, and Emilio Frazzoli)

• Jean-Sebastien Brouillon (co-advised with Giancarlo Ferrari Trecate)

• Andrea Martin (co-advised with Giancarlo Ferrari Trecate and John Lygeros)

• Lenart Treven (co-advised with Andreas Krause)

• Sophie Hall (co-advised with Giuseppe Belgioioso and Dominic Liao-McPherson)

• Eder Baron (externally co-advised at AIT)

• Zhiyu He (co-advised with Michael Muhlebach)

• Andras Sasfi (co-advised with Ivan Markovsky)

• Sanjay Chandrasekaran (co-advised with Silvia Mastellone)

• Taiki Nakano (co-advised with Michael Muhlebach)

• Lucia Pezzetti (co-advised with Giorgia Ramponi)

• Jons Matt (co-advised with Saverio Bolognani)

Postdoctoral Advisees

• Ilia Shilov (co-advised with Saverio Bolognani)

• Feiran Zhao

• Jaap Eising

• Keith Moffat (soon to start a professorship at University of Melbourne)

• Giulia De Pasquale (soon to start a professorship at TU Eindhoven)

• Mattia Bianchi

• Sarah Li (co-advised with John Lygeros; soon to start a professorship at Georgia Tech)

Senior Researchers

• Saverio Bolognani

• Alberto Padoan (co-advised with John Lygeros; soon to start a professorship at University of British Columbia)

• Xiuqiang He

Current Long-Term Visitors

We always have a lot of visiting scientists passing through. Below you find only those that are currently staying for a longer term:

• Alessandro Quattrociocchi

• Federico Cecati

To join us soon

Starting in the next few months…

• Stefania Ionescu

• Antonia Holsten (co-advised with Saverio Bolognani, Andrea Censi, and Emilio Frazzoli)

• Han Wang

• Andrey Kharitenko (co-advised with Nia He and Zebang Shen)

• Kai Zhang (co-advised with Saverio Bolognani, Andrea Censi, and Emilio Frazzoli)

Former Group Members

• Linbin Huang (now professor at Zhejiang University)

• Carmen Amo Alonso (now postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University)

• Giuseppe Belgioioso (now professor at KTH Stockholm)

• Alessandro Zanardi (now postdoctoral scholar at ETH Zurich)

• Liviu Aolaritei (now postdoctoral scholar at UC Berkeley)

• Irina Subotic (now research scientist at ABB)

• Ali Tayyebi-Khameneh (–> thesis, now research scientist at Hitachi Energy)

• Lukas Ortmann (–> thesis, now professor at Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences)

• Ivan Markovsky (now Research Professor at International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering, Spain)

• Jeremy Coulson (–> thesis, now professor at University of Wisconsin, Madison)

• Miguel Picallo Cruz (–> thesis, now senior consultant at Palantir Technologies)

• Michael Fisher (now professor at University of Waterloo)

• Henk van Waarde (now professor at University of Groningen)

• Soroosh Shafieezadeh-Abadeh (now professor at Cornell University)

• Wenjun Mei (now professor at Peking University)

• Nicolo Pagan (–> thesis, now postdoc at University of Zurich)

• Adrian Hauswirth (–> thesis, now senior data & optimization scientist at BKW Energie)

• Robin Delabays (now professor at HES-SO Valais-Wallis)

• Catalin Arghir (–> thesis, now Engineer at Beyond Gravity)

• Dominic Gross (now professor at University of Wisconsin Madison)

• Marcello Colombino (now professor at McGill)

• Bala Kameshwar Poolla (–> thesis, now Research Engineer at National Renewable Energy Laboratory)

• Theodor Borsche (now senior consultant at BCG)

Complex Systems Control Group

... at least that's our official name.

Note to Prospective Students

I am always looking for outstanding doctoral students and postdoctoral scholars. If you are interested in joining my research group, please send me an email with your resume, transcript of courses, a statement of research interests, as well as a list of reference contacts.