Arjan van der Schaft

Arjan van der Schaft
Citizenship Dutch
Nationality Dutch
Fields Systems and Control Theory
Institutions University of Groningen; University of Twente
Alma mater RuG
Thesis System theoretic descriptions of physical systems (1983)
Doctoral advisor Jan Camiel Willems
Notable students Jacquelien Scherpen
Known for contributions to PHS and PBC and Hybrid Systems
Notable awards Fellow of IEEE;
Website
math.rug.nl/arjan

Arjan J. van der Schaft (born 1955) is a full professor of systems and control theory at Johann Bernoulli Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Groningen. He is notable for his contributions to network modeling and control of complex systems as Port-Hamiltonian systems, Passivity-based Control,[1] Nonlinear H_infty control and Hybrid systems. He is a Fellow of the (IEEE).

Career

Arjan van der Schaft received the undergraduate and Ph.D. degrees in Mathematics from the University of Groningen, Netherlands, in 1979 and 1983, respectively. In 1982 he joined the Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Twente, Enschede, where he was appointed as a full professor in Mathematical Systems and Control Theory in 2000. In September 2005 he returned to Groningen as a full professor in Mathematics.

Van der Schaft has served as Associate Editor for Systems & Control Letters, Journal of Nonlinear Science, SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, and the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. Currently he is Associate Editor for the Journal of Geometric Mechanics, and Editor-at-Large for the European Journal of Control.

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Editorial boards and conference organization

Honors and awards

References

  1. "EOLSS" (PDF).
  2. Nederlands Observatorium voor Wetenschap en Techniek, Wetenschaps- en Technologie-indicatoren Rapport 2000, page 59, Table 3.10.
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