Dr. Alejandro Vargas      Post-Doc Research Assistant      IST, University of Stuttgart
	Address:	Institut für Systemtheorie technischer Prozesse (IST) Universität Stuttgart Pfaffenwaldring 9, D-70550 Stuttgart/Germany
	Phone:	++49-711-685-7749
	Fax:	++49-711-685-7735
	Office No.:	2.243
	e-mail:	vargas@ist.uni-stuttgart.de

Research interests

• Trajectory-based model reduction  (see also SFB412-A9)
  
• Nonlinear observers
• Nonlinear control
  

Brief curriculum vitae

• 2003-2004?: Post-Doc research assitant at IST, University of Stuttgart
• 1999-2002: Ph.D. in Engineering (Automatic Control)
• 2000-2002: stay at the ISR, University of Stuttgart, Germany
• 1999-2000 & 2002: start and completion at Instituto de Ingenieria and DEPFI, UNAM, Mexico City
  
• 1996-1999: Master in Electrical Engineering (Automatic Control) at DEPFI, UNAM, Mexico City
• 1996: Electronics design engineer at Kb/TEL, Mexico City
  
• 1989-1995: Bachelor in Electrical Engineering at Facultad de Ingenieria, UNAM, Mexico City

Publications (partial list)

• A. Vargas (2002). Observer design for nonlinear systems with reduced observability properties (in Spanish) , Ph.D. thesis, UNAM, Mexico (see abstract and index in Spanish)
  
• A. Vargas, J. Moreno, M. Zeitz (2002). Order extension of nonlinear systems for observer design under reduced observability properties, 15th IFAC World Congress, Barcelona, Spain.
• A. Vargas, J. Moreno, M. Zeitz (2001). Nonlinear observer design strategies via observability forms, 5th IFAC Symposium on Nonlinear Control Systems (NOLCOS), St. Petersburg, Russia.
• A. Vargas, G. Soto, J. Moreno, G. Buitron (2000). Observer based time-optimal control of an aerobic SBR for chemical and petrochemical wastewater treatment, Wat. Sci. Tech. 42: 163-170.