Biography

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Prof. Alexander Lanzon holds the Chair in Control Engineering at the University of Manchester, is the Director of the Control, Dynamics and Robotics Laboratory, is the Department Head of Research for the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and is Deputy School Head of Research (International Research Visibility) for the School of Engineering. He served as Head of Division (Control, Robotics, Communications and Signal Processing) between 2017 and 2022 in the School of Engineering, as Deputy Head of Division (Information Engineering) between 2015 and 2017, and as Deputy Director of Research between 2013 and 2015 in the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Manchester.

Prior to joining the University of Manchester, Alexander held research and academic positions at Georgia Institute of Technology and the Australian National University, and industrial positions at ST-Microelectronics Ltd., Yaskawa Denki (Tokyo) Ltd. and National ICT Australia Ltd. He received his Ph.D. degree in Control Engineering and his M.Phil. degree in Robot Control from the University of Cambridge in 2000 and 1997 respectively and received his B.Eng.(Hons). degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Malta in 1995. He is a Chartered Engineer.

Prof. Lanzon is a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, the Institute of Measurement and Control, and the Institution of Engineering and Technology. He is currently an Associate Editor of the IEEE Control Systems Letters (L-CSS). He served as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control between 2012 and 2019, and a Subject Editor for the International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control between 2012 and 2015.