Oct. 2021: Professor with the Department of Computing Science, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany; Head of the group Distributed Control of Interconnected Systems
2020/2021: Invited researcher at ENSTA Bretagne (ROBEX, Lab-STICC), Brest, France for a one-year period
2017: Habilitation (venia legendi) at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Marine Technology at the University of Rostock, Germany, in the field of measurement technology and control: Sensitivity Methods for Analysis and Design of Dynamic Systems with Applications in Control Engineering: Feedforward Control - Feedback Control - Robust Control - State Estimation
2008: PhD defense (Dr.-Ing.) at the Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Ulm, Germany: Theory and application of interval methods for analysis and design of robust and optimal controllers of dynamic systems
2001: Diploma (Dipl.-Ing.) in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany, Chair of Automatic Control Engineering: Nonlinear Filtering for multi-dimensional systems with non-Gaussian multiplicative noise
Research Interests
Simulation of nonlinear dynamic systems with interval uncertainty
System identification
State and parameter estimation in the context of set-valued and stochastic uncertainty
Signal processing and probabilistic inference techniques
Design of interval observers
Robust and optimal control for nonlinear uncertain systems
Open-loop and closed-loop control as well as state estimation for distributed parameter systems
Development of an interval-based framework for synthesis and verication of dynamic systems in control engineering
Filtering and multi-hypothesis estimator design for feature extraction from speech signals: Development of a software-based assistance system for the detection of speech disorders
Uncertainty modeling for magnet resonance velocimetry for technical flow measurements