Vincent BLONDEL
Short
biography
Vincent D. Blondel is professor and head of the department of
mathematical engineering at the Université catholique de
Louvain (UCL) in Belgium. He received an engineering degree, a degree in
philosophy, and a PhD in applied mathematics, all from the
Université
catholique de Louvain, and a MSc in pure mathematics from
Imperial College
(London,
UK). He has also completed a master thesis at the Institut National Polytechnique
de Grenoble (France). He was a visiting scientist at Oxford University
in 1993.
During the
academic year 1993-1994, he was the Göran Gustafsson Fellow at
the
Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm, Sweden). In 1993-1994 he was
a research fellow a the French national research center in computer
science (INRIA, Rocquencourt, Paris). From 1994 to 1999 he was
an associate professor at the Institute of Mathematics of the
Université de Liège in Belgium. Dr Blondel was a visitor with the Australian National
University
(1991), the University of California at Berkeley (1998), the Santa Fe
Institute
(2000) and Harvard University (2001). He has also been an invited
professor
at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Lyon (1998) and at the
University
of Paris VII (1999 and 2000). In 2005-2006 he was an invited professor
and Fulbright scholar with the Department of Electrical Engineering and
Computer Sciences of the Massachusetts
Institute
of Technology (Cambridge, USA).
Dr Blondel's major current research interests lie in several
area of
mathematical control theory and theoretical computer science. He is a
former associate editor of the European Journal of
Control
(Springer) and an associate editor of Systems and Control Letters
(Elsevier)
and of the Journal on Mathematics of Control, Signals, and Systems
(Springer). For his scientific contributions he has
been
awarded of a grant from the Trustees of the Mathematics Institute
of
Oxford University (1992), the prize Agathon De Potter of the Belgian
Royal
Academy of Science (1993), the prize Paul Dubois of the Montefiore
Institute
(1993), the triennal SIAM prize on control and systems theory (2001),
the prize Adolphe Wetrems of the Belgian
Royal
Academy of Science (2006), and the Antonio Ruberti prize in systems and control of the IEEE
(2006).