Arjan van der Schaft
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Prof. dr. Arjan van der Schaft
University of Groningen
Johann Bernoulli Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science
P.O. Box 407
9700 AK Groningen
The Netherlands
Email : a.j.van.der.schaft [at] math.rug.nl
Visiting address: Bernoulliborg, Room 380
Nijenborgh 9, 9747 AG Groningen
Phone : +31 (0)50 3633731
Fax : +31 (0)50 3633800
Phone : +31 (0)50 3633379 (secretary)
Biography
A.J. (Arjan) van der Schaft (1955) received the undergraduate and Ph.D. degrees
in Mathematics from the University of Groningen, The 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.
He has served as Associate Editor for Systems & Control Letters, Journal of
Nonlinear Science, SIAM Journal on Control, and the IEEE Transactions on
Automatic Control. Currently he is Associate Editor for Systems and Control Letters, Journal of Geometric Mechanics, and Editor-at-Large for the European Journal of Control.
Arjan van der Schaft is Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
A short Curriculum Vitae can be found here.
Research interests
Current research interests include nonlinear systems and control theory, systems modeling of multi-domain physical systems, hybrid systems, and their applications. Recurrent theme is the development of concepts and tools for the modeling, analysis and control of open dynamical systems. Present focus is on network modeling and analysis of complex physical systems and their geometric formulation as port-Hamiltonian systems, the compositional modeling, analysis and control of systems with interacting continuous and discrete dynamics, and their applications in complex engineering systems, embedded systems, and systems biology.
Publications
Arjan van der Schaft is (co-)author of the following books: System Theoretic Descriptions of Physical Systems (1984), Variational and Hamiltonian Control Systems (1987, with P.E. Crouch), Nonlinear Dynamical Control Systems (1990, with H. Nijmeijer), L_2-Gain and Passivity Techniques in Nonlinear Control (2000),
An Introduction to Hybrid Dynamical Systems (2000, with J.M. Schumacher), and Modeling and Control of
Complex Physical Systems: the Port-Hamiltonian Approach (Geoplex Consortium, 2009). He (co-)edited three conference proceedings.
He (co-)authored 87 journal
articles and around 190 refereed contributions to proceedings or book chapters.