Biography
Manfred Morari
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Automatic
Control Laboratory
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ETH
Zurich
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CH-8092
Zurich, Switzerland
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email:
morari@control.ee.ethz.ch
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EDUCATION
AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
INDUSTRIAL
EXPERIENCE
MAJOR HONORS AND AWARDS
RECENT PLENARY
AND HONORARY LECTURESHIPS
EDITORIAL
ACTIVITIES
PUBLICATIONS
(BOOKS, JOURNALS AND CONFERENCES)
RESEARCH
INTERESTS
EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
- 1974
Diploma, Chemical Engineering, ETH Zurich
- 1977
Ph. D., Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
- 1977-1983
University of Wisconsin, Madison. Department of Chemical Engineering
- 1983-1994
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena. Chemical Engineering
- Executive Officer for Chemical Engineering
- Ross McCollum-William H. Corcoran Professor
- Executive Officer for Control and Dynamical Systems
- 1994-present
ETH Zurich
- Professor and Head of Automatic Control Laboratory
- 2009-Jan2012 Head of Department of Information Technology and Electrical
Engineering
INDUSTRIAL EXPERIENCE
- 1973 BASF, Ludwigshafen, Germany
- 1978
Exxon Research and Engineering Company, Florham Park, NJ
- 1981 ICI Ltd., Runcorn,
England
- serving
on technical advisory board of several major corporations
MAJOR HONORS AND AWARDS
- 1980 Donald P. Eckman
Award of the American Automatic Control Council
- 1984 Allan P. Colburn Award of the AIChE
- 1989 Curtis W. McGraw Research Award, American Society for
Engineering Education
- 1990 George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper
Award, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
- 1993 National Academy of Engineering (U.S.)
- 1995 Professional Progress Award of the AIChE
- 1997 Grosses
Ehrenzeichen des Landes Steiermark
- 2002 Tustin Lecture of the IEE, London
- 2002 Computing in Chemical Engineering Award of the CAST Division
of the AIChE
- 2003 Doctor
Honoris Causa, Babes-Bolyai University, Romania
- 2005 IEEE Control Systems Field Award (highest award of the IEEE in
control field)
- 2005 Fellow
of IEEE
- 2006 Nordic
Process Control Award
- 2007 MacKay Visiting Professor of Electrical Engineering and
Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
- 2007 Russell Severance Springer Visiting Professor of Mechanical
Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
- 2007 John Ragazzini Award of the American
Automatic Control Council
- 2008 Fellow of IFAC (International Federation of Automatic Control)
- 2010 Hendrik W. Bode Lecture Prize 2010 of the IEEE Control Systems
Society
- 2011 Richard E. Bellman Control
Heritage Award of the American Automatic Control Council
- 2011 Fellow of the AIChE (American Institute of Chemical Engineers)
RECENT PLENARY AND
HONORARY LECTURESHIPS
- 2004
Distinguished Lecturer Series, University of Utah, Salt Lake City
- 2004
The Bayer Distinguished Research Lecture,
Carnegie Mellon University
- 2005
5th International Conference on Control & Automation (ICCA05),
Budapest
- 2005
IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE 2005),
Dubrovnik, Croatia
- 2005
Assessment and Future Directions of Nonlinear Model Predictive Control
(NMPC), Freudenstadt-Lauterbad
- 2005 16th IFAC World Congress,
Prague
- 2006
International Society of Anaesthetic Pharmacology
(ISAP) 15th Annual Meeting, Chicago
- 2006
Distinguished Lecture Series, University of Padova
- 2007 Kelly Lectures, Purdue
University
- 2007
Distinguished Lecture Series in Computation for Design and Optimization
(CDO), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
- 2007
Simon Stevin Lecture Series on Optimization in Engineering, KU Leuven,
Belgium
- 2007
Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE) Distinguished Lecture Series,
Carnegie Mellon University
- 2008
27th Chinese Control Conference (CCC'08), Kunming, China
- 2009
Workshop in celebration of David Clarke's contribution to MPC, University
of Oxford
- 2009 Invited lecture, University of Belgrade
- 2009
6th IFAC Symposium on Robust Control Design (ROCOND'09), Haifa, Israel
- 2010
Lund Center for Control of Complex Engineering Systems (LCCC) Workshop,
Lund, Sweden
- 2010
2nd IFAC Workshop on Distributed Estimation and Control in Networked
Systems (NecSys'10), Annecy, France
- 2010
International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems (ICCAS), Kintex, Korea
- 2010
The Hendrik W. Bode Lecture, 49th IEEE
Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Atlanta
- 2011
ESCAPE 21, Chalkidiki, Greece
- 2011
Keynote, IEEE Multi-Conference on Systems and Control, Denver
- 2012 BRD Distinguished Lecture Series, the
University of Alberta
EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES
- International
Journal of Control, Member of Editorial Board
- International
Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control,
Member of Editorial Board
- Computers
& Chemical Engineering, Member of Editorial Board
- Automatica, Editor, Survey Papers
- Lecture
Notes in Control and Information Sciences,
Springer Verlag, Series Editor
PUBLICATIONS (BOOKS, JOURNALS AND CONFERENCES)
- Citations:
ISIHighlyCited.com in Engineering, h-Number (ISI): 54
- ~ 14,000 ISI citations, ~ 25,000 Google Scholar citations
RESEARCH
INTERESTS
Hybrid systems analysis and control,
applications to automotive systems and power systems; applications of control
in biomedical engineering, in particular anaesthesia
and rehabilitation engineering; active noise control; process control and
process design; nonlinear dynamics, design and control of separation systems.