Paul M.J. Van den Hof

Biography

Paul M.J. Van den Hof received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, in 1982 and 1989, respectively. In 1986 he moved to Delft University of Technology, where he was appointed as Full Professor in 1999. From 2003 to 2011, he was founding co-director of the Delft Center for Systems and Control (DCSC). As of 2011, he is a Full Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department, Eindhoven University of Technology. His research interests include data-driven modeling, identification for control, dynamic network identification, and model-based control and optimization, with applications in industrial process control systems and high-tech systems. He holds an ERC Advanced Research grant for a research project on identification in dynamic networks. Paul Van den Hof is an IFAC Fellow and IEEE Fellow, an Honorary Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and IFAC Advisor. He has been a member of the IFAC Council (1999-2005, 2017-2020), the Board of Governors of IEEE Control Systems Society (2003-2005), and an Associate Editor and Editor of Automatica (1992-2005). In the triennium 2017-2020 he served as Vice-President of IFAC.