New W3 Professor at the IST: Dr Christian Ebenbauer

We are glad to announce that on April 15, 2009, Dr Christian Ebenbauer joined the institute as W3-Professor (o. L.) for "Computations in Control".

Christian Ebenbauer has specialized in the areas of dynamical systems, control theory, optimization and computation. His research work at the Institute for Systems Theory and Automatic Control will include nonlinear and optimization-based control, convex optimization as well as systems theory applied to algorithm design. In the field of education the new professorship will play an active role in the "Engineering Cybernetics" study course.

Christian Ebenbauer received his MS (Dipl.-Ing.) in Telematics (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science) from Graz University of Technology, Austria, in 2000 and his PhD (Dr.-Ing.) in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Stuttgart, Germany, in 2005. After having completed his PhD, he was a Postdoctoral Associate and an Erwin Schrodinger Fellow at the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA until March 2009.

Christian Ebenbauer was awarded the "Prize of the Vereinigung von Freunden der Universität Stuttgart" for his doctoral thesis 2006, in 2008 he became a scholarship holder with the DFG Emmy Noether Programme.

We are happy to welcome Christian Ebenbauer to his new position at the Institute for Systems Theory and Automatic Control.