Frank Allgöwer

Frank Allgöwer is director of the Institute for Systems Theory and Automatic Control and professor in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Stuttgart in Germany.

Frank's main interests in research and teaching are in the area of systems and control with a current emphasis on the development of new methods for data-based control, optimization-based control, networks of systems, and systems biology. Frank received several recognitions for his work including the IFAC Outstanding Service Award, the IEEE CSS Distinguished Member Award, the State Teaching Award of the German state of Baden-Württemberg, and the Leibniz Prize of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. Frank has been the President of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) for the years 2017-2020. He was Editor for the journal Automatica from 2001 to 2015 and is editor for the Springer Lecture Notes in Control and Information Science book series and has published over 900 scientific articles. From 2012 until 2020 Frank served a Vice-President of Germany's most important research funding agency the German Research Foundation (DFG).

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1981 – 1987       Diploma studies in Engineering Cybernetics and Applied
                           Mathematics at University of Stuttgart and University of California
                           at Los Angeles (UCLA)

1988 – 1995       Research Associate at Institute for System Dynamics and
                           Automatic Control, University of Stuttgart

1991 – 1992       Visiting Research Associate, California Institute of Technology,
                           Pasadena, CA, USA

1995 – 1996       Visiting Research Associate, DuPont Experimental Station,
                           Wilmington, DE, USA

1996                   Ph.D., University of Stuttgart, advisor: Prof. E.D. Gilles

1996                   Offer of University of California at Berkeley (tenure-track assistant
                           professorship)  

1996 – 1999       Assistant Professor for Nonlinear Systems, Electrical Engineering
                           Department, ETH Zürich, Switzerland

1998                   Offer of University of Duisburg (Full Professor of Automatic
                           Control)

1999                   Offer of ETH Zürich (Full Professor of Automatic Control)

since 1999          Full Professor and Director of the Institute for Systems Theory
                            and Automatic Control, University of Stuttgart

2003 – 2004        Visiting Professor, University of California at Santa Barbara, CA,
                            USA

2007                    Offer of University of California at Santa Barbara (Endowed Chair,
                            Electrical Engineering)

2010 – 2011         Visiting Professor, University of Newcastle, Australia

2012 – 2020         Vice-president of the German Research Foundation (DFG)

2018                     Co-founder, Spin-off company TGU Systemwissenschaften

2019                     Co-founder, Spin-off company eStarling.io

2002      NaT-Working Award of the Robert Bosch Foundation

2004      Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation

2005      Best Paper Award 2004/2005, Asian Journal of Control

2005      D.B. Robinson Distinguished Speaker (September 29, 2005), University
              of Alberta, Edmonton

2006      IEEE Distinguished Lecturer

2006      Fellow, International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC)

2007      State Teaching Award of the state of Baden-Württemberg

2008      Best Paper Award, Journal Control Engineering Practice

2009      Best Poster Award, Cancer Systems Biology 2009

2011       Best Paper Award, 8th International Workshop on Computational
               Systems Biology

2011       Outstanding Service Award, International Federation of Automatic Control

2011       International Best Paper Award, SICE 2011

2013       Best Paper Award 2012/2013, Asian Journal of Control

2013       DeGruyter Publishing Best Paper Award

2015       Distinguished Member Award of the IEEE Control System Society

2017       Journal of Process Control Paper Prize Award

2017       24^th Roger Sargent Lecture, December 9, 2017, Imperial College London

2018       Publication Prize 2017, University of Stuttgart

2018       Best Paper Award, 9th IFAC Symposium on Robust Control Design

2019       Best Paper Award, 8th IFAC Workshop on Distributed Estimation and
               Control in Networked Systems (NecSys 2019)

2019       Winner „Ideenwettbewerb: Mobilitätskonzepte für den emissionsfreien
               Campus“ MWK Baden-Württemberg for the initiative Mobility Living Lab
               (MobiLab)

2020       Outstanding Student Paper Award for "Robust Constraint Satisfaction in
               Data-Driven MPC" (J. Berberich, J. Köhler, M.A. Müller and F.  Allgöwer)
               at the IEEE CDC Conference 2020.

2021       Publication Prize 2019, University of Stuttgart

More than 20 invitations for plenary and keynote talks at international conferences in the past five years

Winter term 2021/2022

• Einführung in die Regelungstechnik
• Konzepte der Regelungstechnik (3V/1Ü)
• Praktikum Konzepte der Regelungstechnik
• Matlab Einführungskurs

Summer term 2021

• Projektwettbewerb: Konzepte der Regelungstechnik
• Projektwettbewerb: Einführung in die Regelungstechnik
• Proseminar Technische Kybernetik 2021
• Praktikum: Einführung in die Regelungstechnik
• Mehrgrößenregelung
• Systemdynamische Grundlagen der Regelungstechnik
• Model Predictive Control
• Nonlinear Control

Development of new methods for system and control theory with main focus on:

• Nonlinear Control
• Networked Control
• Predictive Control
• Data-based Control

Application focuses:

• Process Control
• Mechatronics
• Biomedical Technology
• Nanotechnology
• Systems Biology

Universities

since 1999      Dean of Academic Affairs, Engineering Cybernetics, University of
                       Stuttgart

1999 – 2004   Deputy spokesperson, Collaborative Research Center SFB 412

2003 – 2012   Member, Review board Systems Engineering, DFG

2005 – 2013   Member, Governing Board Center for Systems Biology, University of
                       Stuttgart

since 2006     Liaison professor of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation

2006 – 2012   Member, Senate Structure Committee, University of Stuttgart

2006 – 2012   Member, “Ehrungskommission” (university-wide awards
                       committee), University of Stuttgart

seit 2007         Member of the Executive Board, Exzellence Cluster „Simulation
                       Technology” (2007-2018) and „Data-integrated Simulation Science“
                       (since 2019), University of Stuttgart

seit 2009         Chair, Graduate School „Simulation Technology”, University of
                        Stuttgart

seit 2009         Chair, Doctoral Grants Committee, Stuttgart Center for Simulation
                        Science

2009 – 2013    Member of the Management Board, Informatik Verbund Stuttgart

2012 – 2017    Member, Selection Committee for the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
                        Programme, DFG

2012 – 2017    Chairman of the Jury, Communicator Award, Stifterverband and
                        DFG

2013               „Sounding Board“ Ingenieurwissenschaften@2025 of the Ministry
                        for Science and the Arts, Baden-Württemberg

2013 – 2016    Member of the Advisory Committee „Core data set science“
                        (Kerndatensatz), German Council of Science and Humanties
                        (Wissenschaftsrat)

2014 – 2018     Executive Director, Stuttgart Research Centre Systems Biology

2014 – 2015    Member of the Steering Group, Internationalen Research Training
                        Groups of the DFG 

2014 – 2020    Chairman, des Gemeinsamen Ausschuss für Sicherheitsrelevante
                        Forschung von Leopoldina und DFG

2015 – 2020    Spokesperson, Research Alliance „System Mensch“ of the
                        Universities of  Stuttgart and Tübingen

since 2017      Deputy Spokesperson, International Max Planck Research School
                        for Intelligent Systems , Stuttgart and Tübingen

2018 – 2020    Member, Expert Committee „Wissenschaft im digitalen Zeitalter“,
                        DFG

since 2018       Member, Cyber Valley Plenary Assembly

since 2019       Deputy Spokesperson, Excellence Cluster „Data-integrated
                        simulation science“

since 2019       Co-Director, Stuttgart Center for Simulation Science, University of
                        Stuttgart

since 2019       Member, Cyber Valley Research Fund Boards

2019 – 2020    Chairman, German National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI)
                        Expert Committee

since 2020       Member, Interdisciplinary Commission for Pandemic Research,
                        DFG

since 2020       Founding Member, Interchange Forum for the Reflection of
                         Intelligent Systems

Scientific Organizations

2000 – 2015    Member of the Board, VDI/VDE-Gesellschaft Mess- und
                        Automatisierungstechnik (GMA)

2000 – 2015    Chairman, Fachbereich 1 „Grundlagen und Methoden der Mess-
                        und Automatisierungstechnik“ of the VDI/VDE-Gesellschaft Mess-
                        und Automatisierungstechnik (GMA)

2001 – 2008    Chairman, Technical Committee on Nonlinear Systems, International
                        Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC)

2001 – 2004    Council Member, European Union Control Association (EUCA)

2005 – 2008    Member, Policy Committee, Intern. Federation of Automatic
                        Control (IFAC)

2005 – 2008    Member, Board of Governors, IEEE Control Systems Society

2007 – 2012    Chairman, International Affairs Committee, IEEE Control Systems
                        Society

since 2008      Council Member, International Federation of Automatic Control
                       (IFAC)

2011 – 2014    Member, Board of Governors, IEEE Control Systems Society

2011 – 2015    Chairman, Strategic Planning Group, IFAC

2011 – 2016    Member, IEEE Life Sciences New Initiative (LSNI) Project Team

2012 – 2015    Member, Long Range Planning Committee, IEEE Control Systems
                        Society

2013 – 2014    Vice-president for Technical Activities, IEEE Control Systems
                        Society

2014 – 2017    Chairman, Administration & Finance Committee, IFAC

2014 – 2017    Member, IEEE Control Systems Award Committee

2014 – 2017    Chairman, Election Committee, IFAC

2017 – 2020    President, International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC)

since 2017       Member, IFAC Publication Management Board

since 2020       Chairman, Membership Committee, IFAC

Editorial Activities

1997 – 2001     Associate Editor, Automatica (Elsevier)

1997 – 2008     Associate Editor, Journal of Process Control (Elsevier)

2001 – 2015     Editor, Automatica, Process and Computer Control Area (Elsevier)

2003 – 2007     Associate Editor, European Journal of Control (Hermes Science)

since 2008       Editor-in-Chief, Springer Lecture Notes in Control and Information
                        Sciences

2010 – 2016     Associate Editor, IMA Journal of Mathematical Control and
                         Information

since 1998        Member of various advisory boards for international journals
                          including IEE Proceedings on Control Theory and Applications
                         (since 2006 IET), Journal of Nonlinear and Robust Control,
                         Chemical Engineering Science, Canadian Journal of Chemical
                         Engineering, Control Handbook (CRC Press)