Lassi Paunonen

Biography

Lassi Paunonen is currently an Associate Professor in mathematics and the leader of the Systems Theory Research Group at Tampere University, Tampere, Finland. He received the MSc in 2007 and PhD in 2011, both from Tampere University of Technology, Finland. During 2012-2016 he was a postdoctoral researcher at Tampere University of Technology, and since 2016 he has held a tenure track position in the same institution. During 2016–2019 he also held the position of an Academy of Finland Postdoctoral Researcher and during 1/2017-7/2017 he was an academic visitor at Institute of Mathematics at University of Oxford, UK. His main research interests include control of distributed parameter systems and PDEs and stability theory of strongly continuous semigroups. In particular, he is interested in output tracking, disturbance rejection and internal model based control of boundary controlled PDE models and related classes of infinite-dimensional systems. He is also interested in "polynomial stability" and "non-uniform stability" which are frequently encountered in the study of multidimensional damped wave equations and in coupled PDE models. In addition, part of his research focuses on applications of control theoretic methods in computational neuroscience.