Antonis Papachristodoulou

Source: https://sysos.eng.ox.ac.uk/our-group/antonis-papachristodoulou Parent: https://sysos.eng.ox.ac.uk/projects/programmable-plants

Biographical Sketch


	I joined the University of Oxford in 2006, where I am currently the Statutory Professor in Control Engineering and a Fellow of Kellogg College. I was previously a tutorial fellow at Worcester College, EPSRC Fellow and Director of the EPSRC & BBSRC Centre for Doctoral training in Synthetic Biology. I obtained an MA/MEng degree in Electrical and Information Sciences from the University of Cambridge, U.K., as a member of Robinson College in 2000. In 2005 I completed a PhD in Control and Dynamical Systems at the California Institute of Technology, with a PhD Minor in Aeronautics.

I joined the University of Oxford in 2006, where I am currently the Statutory Professor in Control Engineering and a Fellow of Kellogg College. I was previously a tutorial fellow at Worcester College, EPSRC Fellow and Director of the EPSRC & BBSRC Centre for Doctoral training in Synthetic Biology. I obtained an MA/MEng degree in Electrical and Information Sciences from the University of Cambridge, U.K., as a member of Robinson College in 2000. In 2005 I completed a PhD in Control and Dynamical Systems at the California Institute of Technology, with a PhD Minor in Aeronautics.

My thesis was on "Scalable Analysis of Nonlinear Systems Using Convex Optimization". In 2005 I held a short David Crighton Fellowship at the University of Cambridge and a postdoctoral fellowship at the California Institute of Technology. In 2015 I was awarded the European Control Award for my contributions to robustness analysis and applications to networked control systems and systems biology and the O. Hugo Schuck Best Paper Award.

I am an IEEE Fellow for my contributions to the analysis and design of networked control systems. I serve regularly on Technical Programme Committees for conferences and was associate editor for Automatica and IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.

I served as Programme co-chair for the 2024 European Control Conference and co-chair for the 2024 Learning for Decision and Control.

Exciting ventures starting in 2024 are the EEBio Programme Grant [1] and the UK Control Network.

Research Interests

Modern control theory, robust stability analysis and design
Nonlinear dynamical systems, Lyapunov stability
Convex optimisation (linear and semidefinite programming, LMIs), sum of squares programming
Synthetic and systems biology
Networked systems: multi-agent systems, consensus, flocking, alignment
Synchronisation of oscillator networks, Internet congestion control, population dynamic systems, biochemical reaction networks
Aerospace systems and flow control

Selected Publications

A full and most up-to-date list can be found on Google Scholar.

Teaching

Academic Years 2014-2022:

DTC Module on "Introduction to Systems and Synthetic Biology".\ DTC Modules on "Synthetic Circuit Design" and "Systems and Control Theory for Synthetic Biology".

Academic Year 2022-2023:

Michaelmas 2022: B15 Optimal Control; B15 Limitations of Controller Performance

Academic Year 2023-2024:

Michaelmas 2023: B15 Optimal Control; B15 Limitations of Controller Performance

Academic Year 2024-2025:

Michaelmas 2023: EngBioCDT module on Mathematical Methods\ Michaelmas 2023: B15 Optimal Control; B15 Limitations of Controller Performance

Contact Info

E-mail: antonis at eng point ox point ac point uk

Department Address: Room 50.04, Information Engineering Building, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PJ, United Kingdom

Telephone: +44 1865 283036