Supervisor: Prof. dr. Claudio de Persis (ENTEG)

Claudio De Persis received the Laurea degree (cum laude) in Electrical Engineering in 1996 and the Ph.D. degree in System Engineering in 2000, both from the University of Rome la Sapienza, Italy.

He is currently a Professor at the Engineering and Technology Institute, Faculty of Sciences and Engineering, University of Groningen, the Netherlands. He is also affiliated with the Jan Willems Center for Systems and Control. Previously he was a full professor in the Department of Mechanical Automation and Mechatronics, University of Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands, in 2009-2011, and with the Department of Computer, Control, and Management Engineering, University of Rome la Sapienza, Italy, in 2002-2009. He was a Research Associate at the Department of Systems Science and Mathematics, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, USA, in 2000-2001, and at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA, in 2001-2002. He was an Editor of the International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control (2006-2013), and an Associate Editor of the IEEE Control Systems Technology (2010-2015) and the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (2012-2015). He is currently an Associate Editor of Automatica (since 2013) and IEEE Control Systems Letters (since its inception in 2017).

Corporate webpage: http://www.rug.nl/staff/c.de.persis/