My research interests are focused on optimization-based control and real-time optimization. Especially, I am interested in the following topics:

• real-time optimization of uncertain nonlinear processes,
• nonlinear model predictive control (NMPC),
• turnpike properties of optimal control problems and their use in economic MPC,
• reference-tracking and path-following problems.

I am interested in applying these control methods to energy systems, chemical process, aeronautics, and mechatronics/robotics. Besides my employment at EPFL, I hold a position a senior research associate at the Institute for Applied Informatics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. There I lead the group Advanced Control. For more details on my current research activities, please check the group page at KIT.

Additionally, I work jointly with the PhD students Martand Singhal, Tafarel de Avila Ferreira and Predrag Milosavljevic on real-time optimization of uncertain processes. This research explores different aspects and applications of RTO, such as handling gradient uncertainty (Singhal et al. 2015}), RTO for large-scale and interconnected systems (Predrag Milosavljevic) and RTO for fuel cell systems (Tafarel de Avila Ferreira).

My research interests are focused on optimization-based control and real-time optimization. Especially, I am interested in the following topics:

• real-time optimization of uncertain nonlinear processes,
• nonlinear model predictive control (NMPC),
• turnpike properties of optimal control problems and their use in economic MPC,
• reference-tracking and path-following problems.

I am interested in applying these control methods to problems from process control, aeronautics and mechatronics/robotics. Besides my employment at EPFL, I hold a position a senior research associate at the Institute for Applied Informatics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. There I lead the group Advanced Control. For more details on my current research activities, please check the group page at KIT.