prof. dr. ir. J.M.A. (Jacquelien) Scherpen
Research interests
Jacquelien Scherpen received her MSc and PhD M.Sc. and
Ph.D. degrees in 1990 and 1994 from the University of Twente, the
Netherlands. She then joined Delft University of Technology and
moved in 2006 to the University of Groningen (UG) as a professor at
the Engineering and Technology institute Groningen (ENTEG), Faculty
of Science and Engineering (FSE). From 2013 til 2019 she was
scientific director of ENTEG. She is currently director of
engineering at the UG, and Captain of Science of the Dutch top
sector High Tech Systems and Materials (HTSM). Jacquelien has held
various visiting research positions, such as at the University of
Tokyo, and Kyoto University, Japan, Université de Compiegne,
and SUPÉLEC, Gif-sur-Yvette, France, and Old Dominion
University, VA, USA.
Jacquelien has been and is at the editorial board of a few
international journals among which the IEEE Transactions on
Automatic Control, and the International Journal of Robust and
Nonlinear Control. She received the 2017-2020 Automatica Best Paper
Prize. In 2019 she received a royal distinction as Knight in the
Order of the Netherlands Lion, and she is fellow of IEEE. In 2023
she was awarded the Prince Friso prize for Engineer of the Year in
The Netherlands. She has been active at the International
Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), and is currently member of
the IFAC council. She is active in the IEEE Control Systems
Society. From 2017 to 2023 she was (vice- present- past-)president
of the European Control Association (EUCA), and currently she is
chairing the SIAM Activity Group on Control and Systems
Theory.
Her current research interests include model reduction methods for
networks, nonlinear model reduction methods, nonlinear control
methods, modeling and control of physical systems with applications
to electrical circuits, electromechanical systems, mechanical
systems, smart energy networks and distributed optimal control
applications to smart grids.