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Head

Univ.-Prof. Dr.techn. Andreas Kugi

Automation and Control Institute
Gußhausstr. 27-29
1040 Vienna, Austria

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Education and Qualification

1986 - 1992   Study of electrical engineering at the Technical University of Graz
03/1992   Graduation Dipl.Ing.
1992 - 1995   Ph.D. study of technical sciences at the Johannes Kepler University of Linz
07/1995   Dr.techn. degree in automatic control
10/2000   Habilitation: venia docendi for ''control engineering and control theory'' at the Johannes Kepler University of Linz

Employment History

03/1992 - 06/1995   Scientific assistant at the Institute of Automatic Control and Electrical Drives, Johannes Kepler University of Linz
07/1995 - 02/1996   Military service
03/1996 - 10/2000   Postdoc assistant at the Institute of Automatic Control and Electrical Drives, Johannes Kepler University of Linz
11/2000 - 02/2002   Associate professor at the Johannes Kepler University of Linz
07/2001   Offer of a C4 full professorship for the Chair of System Theory and Automatic Control at the Saarland University, Germany
03/2002 - 05/2007   Head of the Chair of System Theory and Automatic Control at the Saarland University, Germany
03/2006   Offer of a W3 full professorship for the Chair of Automatic Control at the Technical University of Dresden, Germany
07/2006   Offer of a full professorship for Complex Dynamical Systems at the Vienna University of Technology, Austria
since 06/2007   Head of the Automation and Control Institute (ACIN) at the Vienna University of Technology, Austria

Plenaries and Semi-Plenaries

2010   Plenary, 29th Benelux-Meeting on Systems and Control, Heeze, The Netherlands, March 30 - April 1, 2010
2009   Plenary, 6th Symposium on Mathematical Modelling (MATHMOD), Vienna, Austria, February 11-13, 2009
07/2007   Plenary, GAMM Annual Meeting 2007, Embedded Meeting of the 6th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM), Zurich, Switzerland, July 16 - 20, 2007
09/2004   Semi-Plenary, 6th IFAC-Symposium on Nonlinear Control Systems (NOLCOS) 2004, Stuttgart, Germany, September 1 - 3, 2004

Awards and Honors

2010   Best Paper Award, IFAC Symposium on Mechatronic Systems, 11.-16. September 2010, Cambridge, MA, USA: 'Digital Control of Electrorheological Valves' (with M. Kamelreiter and W. Kemmtmüller)
2008   Best Paper Award, at-Automatisierungstechnik, Volume 56 (2008) in the area of applications: 'Modellbasierte Dicken- und Ebenheitsregelung in Grobblechwalzwerken' (with T. Kiefer and R. Heeg)
2006   Best Paper Award, at-Automatisierungstechnik, Volume 54 (2006) in the area of applications: 'Regelung adaptronischer Systeme, Teil 1: Piezoelektrische Strukturen und Teil 2: Elektrorheologische Aktoren' (Part 1 with D. Thull and T. Meurer, Part 2 with W. Kemmetmüller)
2005   Best Paper Award, at-Automatisierungstechnik, Volume 53 (2005) in the area of methods: 'Kartesische Impedanzregelung von Robotern mit elastischen Gelenken: Ein passivitatsbasierter Ansatz' (with C. Ott, A. Albu-Schäffer, S. Stramigioli, and G. Hirzinger)
2001   Kardinal-Innitzer-Förderungspreis
2000   Meritorious Paper Award, Annual IEEE IAS Conference, October 11, 2000, Rome, Italy: 'Non-Linear Control in Rolling Mills: A New Perspective' (with R. Novak and K. Schlacher)

Scientific Service for Journals and Conferences

since 07/2010   Editor-in-Chief of the IFAC Journal 'Control Engineering Practice (CEP)', Pergamon-Elsevier Science LTD, SCI 0967-0661
10/2007 - 06/2010   Deputy-Editor-in-Chief of the IFAC Journal 'Control Engineering Practice (CEP)', Pergamon-Elsevier Science LTD, SCI 0967-0661
since 10/2007   Associate Editor for Automation and Control of the journal 'e&i elektrotechnik und informationstechnik', Springer Verlag
11/2006 - 01/2010   Associate Editor for the IFAC Journal 'Mechatronics', Pergamon-Elsevier Science LTD, SCI 0957-4158
02/2005 - 10/2010   Scientific advisory board of the journal 'at-Automatisierungstechnik'', Oldenbourg Verlag
2010   Vice-Chair from Europe, 2010 IFAC Symposium on Mechatronic Systems, September 13-15, Cambridge, MA, USA
2006   Area-Chair for 'Methods and tools for multi-disciplinary systems development', 2006 IFAC Symposium on Mechatronic Systems, September 12-14, Heidelberg, Germany
2001   Technical Co-Chairman of the XI. International Symposium on Theoretical Electrical Engineering 2001, August 19-22, Linz, Austria

Memberships in Professional Bodies and Professional Service Activities

since 05/2010   Corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
01/2010 - 11/2012   Member of the Expert Commission of the German Research Council (DFG) for the Excellence Initiative
since 10/2009   Member of the scientific advisory board LOEWE-Zentrum-AdRIA, Hessische Forschungsforderungsinitiative, Darmstadt, Germany
since 12/2008   Member of the assessment group for Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies, German Council of Science and Humanities
since 05/2008   Member of the board of directors VPTÖ (Association to Support the Modernization of Applied Manufacturing Technologies in Austria/Vereinigung zur Förderung der Modernisierung der Produktionstechnologien in Osterreich)
01/2005 - 12/2010   Chair of the VDI/VDE-GMA section 1.40 on 'Theoretical Methods in Control'
01/2005 - 12/2010   Co-chair of the VDI/VDE-GMA section 1.30 on 'Modeling, Identification and Simulation in Automatic Control'
01/2004 - 05/2007   German representative in the European Union Control Association EUCA