# 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

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|  | 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](https://ecc24.euca-ecc.org/) and co-chair for the 2024 [Learning for Decision and Control.](https://l4dc.web.ox.ac.uk/)

Exciting ventures starting in 2024 are the [EEBio Programme Grant](https://eebio.ac.uk/) [[1]](https://gow.epsrc.ukri.org/NGBOViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/Y014073/1) and the [UK Control Network](https://gow.epsrc.ukri.org/NGBOViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/X031470/1).

# 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](https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=hPORM7EAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao).

# 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