Are you a motivated, talented, outstanding prospective PhD Student or Postdoctoral Researcher?
Do you have a strong Mathematical background in the areas of Systems and Control, Dynamical Systems, Optimisation, Mathematical Biology/Epidemiology?
Are you passionate about interdisciplinary research at the interface between mathematical systems and control, engineering and life sciences?
If you are interested in joining my research group, send me an email with: your full CV; transcript of bachelor and master courses (for prospective PhD students) or PhD thesis (for prospective Postdoctoral researchers); a motivation letter describing your research interests and experience; a list of reference contacts.
I am looking for Postdoctoral Researchers to work on the ERC project INSPIRE: "Integrated Structural and Probabilistic Approaches for Biological and Epidemiological Systems". More information in the flyer.
Current Group Members
Postdoctoral Researchers

Daniele Proverbio Ph.D. in Computational Sciences, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg 2023/07 - University of Trento
Ph.D. Students

Maarten N. de Jong M.Sc. in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Wageningen University & Research, The Netherlands 2021/07 - Delft University of Technology
M.Sc. Thesis Students
- Riccardo Tessarin, M.Sc. Mechatronics Engineering, University of Trento
- Damiano Reginato, M.Sc. Mechatronics Engineering, University of Trento
- Nicola Rossi, M.Sc. Mechatronics Engineering, University of Trento
Alumni and Former Group Members
Postdoctoral Researchers

Francesca Calà Campana Ph.D. in Mathematics, University of Würzburg, Germany 2021/11 - 2022/11 University of Trento
Ph.D. Students

Carlos Andrés Devia Master's and Bachelor's Degree in Electronics Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia 2019/06 - 2023/06 Delft University of Technology
M.Sc. Thesis Students
- Giulia Tuccio, "Parameter estimation in a cardiovascular computational model using numerical optimization -- Patient simulation, searching for a digital twin", co-supervised at KTH Stockholm, Sweden, by Erik Fransén and Mats Eriksson, International M.Sc. EIT Digital Master School in Autonomous Systems, University of Trento, graduated in September 2022
- Domenico Fiore, "LMI-based synchronization of linear interconnected systems", co-supervised by Luca Zaccarian, M.Sc. Mechatronics Engineering, University of Trento, graduated in December 2021
- Jerry An, "Decentralized conflict resolution for autonomous vehicles", co-supervised by Changliu Liu, M.Sc. Systems and Control, TU Delft, graduated in November 2020
- Francesco Riz, "Solving nonlinear algebraic loops arising in input-saturated linear feedbacks", co-supervised by Luca Zaccarian and Franco Blanchini, M.Sc. Mechatronics Engineering, University of Trento, graduated in September 2020
- Nicolas Mavrocordatos: "Energy-Based Modelling and Control for Helicopter Autorotation: A port-Hamiltonian approach", co-supervised by Marilena Pavel, M.Sc. Systems and Control, TU Delft, graduated in April 2020
- Ghiline van Furth: "Optimal Control of Combined Chemo-Radiation Therapy Treatments for Improving Cancer Care", co-supervised by Zoltán Perkó, M.Sc. Systems and Control, TU Delft, graduated in March 2020
- Jeroen Postma: "Decentralized Control of Multi-Agent Dynamic Games", M.Sc. Systems and Control, TU Delft, co-supervised by Sergio Grammatico, graduated in February 2020
- Tijmen Witte: "Network-Decentralized Simultaneous Localization and Mapping by Multi-Agent Systems", M.Sc. Embedded Systems, TU Delft, graduated in December 2019
- Neel Nagda: "Variable Fractional Order PID Control for Precision Positioning", co-supervised by Hassan HosseinNia and Niranjan Saikumar, M.Sc. Systems and Control, TU Delft, graduated cum laude in August 2019
- Patrick Ledzian: "Network-Decentralized Collision Avoidance with Applications in a Scalable Unmanned Aerial System Testbed", M.Sc. Systems and Control, TU Delft, graduated cum laude in August 2019
- Xiajing Li: "Decentralised Collision Avoidance for Multi-Agent Systems in 3-Dimensional Spaces", M.Sc. Systems and Control, TU Delft, graduated in May 2019
- Lotte M. de Graaf: "Analysis of the central carbon metabolism during fast substrate dynamics in E. coli using kinetic modeling", M.Sc. Life Science & Technology, TU Delft, co-supervised with Eleni Vasilakou and S. Aljoscha Wahl, graduated in May 2019
- Rik Oude Grote Bevelsborg: "A Novel Fast Marching Approach for COLREGS Compliant Dynamic Obstacle Avoidance for Unmanned Surface Vehicles", M.Sc. Systems and Control, TU Delft, graduated in March 2019
- Daan van Wijk: "Network-Decentralized Control with Collision Avoidance for Multi-Agent Systems", M.Sc. Systems and Control, TU Delft, graduated in September 2018
B.Sc. Thesis Students
- Chris van der Hoorn, Bob van der Meer, Bart Schoone, Erik Sieburgh: "A Virtual Control Laboratory with Graphical User Interface 2.0", B.Sc. Mechanical Engineering, TU Delft, graduated in June 2019
- Sibren Allard, Koen Bakker, Thomas Ceha, Anton Louwen: "A Virtual Control Laboratory with Graphical User Interface", B.Sc. Mechanical Engineering, TU Delft, graduated in June 2018
Collaborators and Co-Authors
- Teodoro Alamo, University of Seville, Spain
- Claudio Altafini, Linköpings Universitet, Sweden
- Alessandro Astolfi, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata", Italy, and Imperial College London, United Kingdom
- Rudi Balling, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
- Dario Bauso, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom, and then University of Groningen, The Netherlands
- Franco Blanchini, Università degli Studi di Udine, Italy
- Marcin Bodych, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland
- Robert Böhm, University of Vienna, Austria, and University of Copenhagen, Denmark
- Paolo Bolzern, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
- Giambattista Bonanno, Università degli Studi di Genova, Italy
- Tiziana Bonifacino, Università degli Studi di Genova, Italy
- Philipp Braun, The Australian National University Canberra, Australia
- Melanie Brinkmann, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany
- Cherylea J. Browne, Western Sydney University, Australia
- Raffaele Bruno, Università degli Studi di Pavia and Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy
- Bruno Burlando, Università degli Studi di Genova, Italy
- André Calero Valdez, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
- Daniele Casagrande, Università degli Studi di Udine, Italy
- Hyeygjeon Chang, Kookmin University, South Korea
- Geoffrey Chase, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
- Graziano Chesi, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
- Sandra Ciesek, Fraunhofer Institute for Translational Medicine and Pharmacology, Germany
- Marta Colaneri, Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy
- Patrizio Colaneri, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
- Christian E. Cuba Samaniego, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and then University of California at Los Angeles, USA
- Sarah Cuschieri, L'Università ta' Malta, Malta
- Thomas Czypionka, Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna, Austria, and London School of Economics and Political Science, London, United Kingdom
- Nicholas DeLateur, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
- Giuseppe De Nicolao, Università degli Studi di Pavia, Italy
- Carlos Andrés Devia, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
- Alessandro Di Filippo, Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy
- Enrico Domenici, COSBI and University of Trento, Italy
- Carlo Drioli, Università degli Studi di Udine, Italy
- Uga Dumpis, Pauls Stradins University Hospital, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia
- Isabella Anne Eckerle, University Hospital Geneva, Switzerland
- Hana El-Samad, University of California San Francisco, USA
- David Esseni, Università degli Studi di Udine, Italy
- Filippo Fabiani, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
- Gianfranco Fenu, Università degli Studi di Trieste, Italy
- Anna Fochesato, COSBI and University of Trento, Italy
- Gian Luca Foresti, Università degli Studi di Udine, Italy
- Per Ola Forsberg, Lunds Universitet, Sweden
- Elisa Franco, University of California at Los Angeles, USA
- Anna Gambin, University of Warsaw, Poland
- Lotte M. de Graaf, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
- Krzysztof Gogolewski, University of Warsaw, Poland
- Deepti Gurdasani, Queen Many University of London, United Kingdom
- Daniel Gutiérrez-Reina, University of Seville, Spain
- Claudia Hanson, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom, and Karolinska Institute Stockholm, Sweden
- Zdenek Hel, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
- Anna Helova, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
- Niel Hens, University of Antwerpen, Belgium
- Esteban A. Hernandez-Vargas, Institute of Mathematics UNAM, Mexico, and Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Germany
- Pirta Hotulainen, Minerva Foundation Institute for Medical Research Helsinki, Finland
- Emil N. Iftekhar, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization Göttingen, Germany
- Iole Indovina, IRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia Roma, Italy
- Vanessa D. Jonsson, City of Hope National Medical Center, USA
- Christopher M. Kellett, The Australian National University Canberra, Australia
- Michelle Kelly-Irving, Universite Paul Sabatier Toulouse III, France
- Ilona Kickbusch, Global Health Centre, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland
- Jongmin Kim, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, USA, and then Pohang University of Science and Technology, South Korea
- Peter Klimek, Medical University and Complexity Science Hub Vienne, Austria
- Lilian Kojan, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
- Mirjam E. Kretzschmar, University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Tyll Krueger, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland
- Jenny Krutzinna, University of Bergen, Norway
- Berit Lange, Helmholtz Center for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany
- Mohammed T. Laraba, CentraleSupélec - École supérieure d'électricité, France
- Jeffrey V. Lazarus, University of Barcelona, Spain
- Renato Lo Cigno, Università degli Studi di Trento, Italy
- Helena Machado, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal
- Luca Marchetti, COSBI and University of Trento, Italy
- Vahid Mardanlou, University of California at Riverside, USA
- Lucio Marinelli, Università degli Studi di Genova, Italy
- Martin McKee, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
- Stefano Miani, Università degli Studi di Udine, Italy
- Marco Milanese, Università degli Studi di Genova, Italy
- Pablo Millán Gata, Universidad Loyola Andalucia, Spain
- Pier Luca Montessoro, Università degli Studi di Udine, Italy
- Andrew Moorman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
- Viviana Mucci, IRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia Roma, Italy, and Western Sydney University, Australia
- Richard M. Murray, California Institute of Technology, USA
- Kai Nagel, TU Berlin, Germany
- Armin Nassehi, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
- Silviu-Iulian Niculescu, CentraleSupélec - École supérieure d'électricité, France
- Sorin Olaru, CentraleSupélec - École supérieure d'électricité, France
- Miquel Oliu-Barton, Paris-Dauphine University, Paris, France, and Bruegel, Brussels, Belgium
- David Palma, Università degli Studi di Udine, Italy
- Andreas Peichl, ifo Institute, Leibniz Institute for Economic Research, University of Munich, Germany
- Felice Andrea Pellegrino, Università degli Studi di Trieste, Italy
- Matjaž Perc, University of Maribor, Slovenia
- Raffaele Pesenti, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, Italy
- Elena Petelos, University of Crete, Greece, and Maastricht University, The Netherlands
- Nedyu Popivanov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and Sofia University, Bulgaria
- Bary Pradelski, CNRS, Grenoble, France, and Oxford-Man Institute, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Barbara Prainsack, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
- Victor M. Preciado, University of Pennsylvania, USA
- Viola Priesemann, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization Göttingen, Germany
- Anders Rantzer, Lunds Universitet, Sweden
- Silvia Ravera, Università degli Studi di Genova, Italy
- Federico Reali, COSBI and University of Trento, Italy
- Vasso Reppa, KIOS Research and Innovation Center of Excellence, University of Cyprus, Cyprus, and then TU Delft, The Netherlands
- Tommaso Rollo, Università degli Studi di Udine, Italy
- Magdalena Rosińska, National Medicines Institute, Warsaw, Poland
- Paolo Sacchi, Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy
- Daniele Salvati, Università degli Studi di Udine, Italy
- Francesco Sannino, Federico II University of Napoli, Italy, and University of Southern Denmark, Aarhus, Denmark
- Eva Schernhammer, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
- Alexander Schmidt, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self- Organization Göttingen, Germany
- Kay Schroeder, Zuyd University of Applied Sciences, Heerlen, The Netherlands
- Michele Segata, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
- Giulia Simoni, COSBI and University of Trento, Italy
- Abhyudai Singh, University of Delaware, USA
- Eduardo D. Sontag, MIT and Northeastern University, USA
- Ruben Specogna, Università degli Studi di Udine, Italy
- Anthony Staines, Dublin City University, Ireland
- Ewa Szczurek, University of Warsaw, Poland
- Sotirios Tsiodras, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Medical School, Greece
- Eleni Vasilakou, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
- Umberto Viaro, Università degli Studi di Udine, Italy
- S. Aljoscha Wahl, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
- Paul Wilmes, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
- Guntram Wolff, Bruegel, Brussels and Université libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
- Luca Zaccarian, CNRS-LAAS Toulouse, France, and University of Trento, Italy
- Irene Zorzan, Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy and University of Surrey, United Kingdom