Carsten Scherer

Biography

Carsten W. Scherer received his Ph.D. degree in mathematics from the University of Würzburg (Germany) in 1991. In 1993, he joined Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands) where he held positions as an assistant and associate professor. From December 2001 until February 2010 he was a full professor within the Delft Center for Systems and Control at Delft University of Technology. Since March 2010 he holds the SimTech Chair for Mathematical Systems Theory in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Stuttgart (Germany).

Dr. Scherer acted as the chair of the IFAC technical committee on Robust Control (2002-2008), and he has served as an associated editor for the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Automatica, Systems and Control Letters and the European Journal of Control. Since 2013 he is an IEEE Fellow “for contributions to optimization-based robust controller synthesis“.

Dr. Scherer’s main research activities cover various topics in applying optimization techniques for developing new advanced controller design algorithms and their application to mechatronics and aerospace systems.