Zoltan  K.  Nagy Ph.D., Research Assistant Institute for Systems Theory in Engineering University of Stuttgart Pfaffenwaldring 9 70550 Stuttgart
	Phone: +49 711 685 77 42 Fax:    +49 711 685 77 35 Email: nagy@ist.uni-stuttgart.de

"Babes-Bolyai" University of Cluj, Romania, Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, 2001
"Babes-Bolyai" University of Cluj, Romania, M.S., Chemical Engineering, 1995
"Babes-Bolyai" University of Cluj, Romania, B.S., Chemical Engineering, 1994

Positions

2003 – present – Research Associate (current position) – Institut für Systemtheorie technischer Prozesse (IST), Universität Stuttgart.

2002 – 2003 – Lecturer  (1 year) – Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign;

2001 – 2003 (2 years) – Postdoctoral research associate (NATO fellow) – Large Scale Systems Research Laboratory, Chemical Engineering Department, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.

1995 – present – Assistant Professor – Position held at the Chemical Engineering Department, Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, “Babes-Bolyai” University, Cluj, Romania.

Awards

• 2003 – Automatica Outstanding Reviewer Award.
• 2002 – Best paper award, Section Process Control I, The 6th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, Orlando, USA, 2002, (http://www.iiis.org/sci2003).
• 2001 – NATO-NSF Award for postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.
• 1997 – TEMPUS fellow, Computers in Teaching Initiative Center for Chemistry, University of Liverpool, UK.
•  Merit Scholarship of the “Babes-Bolyai” University of Cluj, (9 semesters in a raw, won as number 1 student in the Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, 1990-1994).
•  Over 20 awards at the National Olympics of Chemistry and other chemistry competitions during high school. Selected in the Romanian Olympic team for the International Chemistry Olympics.

• Uncertainty (robustness) analysis; Robust control of batch processes
  
• Dynamic optimization
• Optimization based control and estimation
• Modeling, optimization and control of pharmaceutical crystallization
• First-principles and data driven approaches for the modelling of chemical processes
  
• Chemical Process Design, chemical CAD software
  
• Computer aided engineering education; Remote control and "telelaboratory" used in distance engineering education
  

• Evaluation of nonlinear model predictive control in the chemical industry (partners BASF, ABB)

• IST publications
• Complete list of Publications (pdf version)