Optimal Control of ODEs and DAEs

Prof. Dr. Matthias Gerdts studied Mathematics with minor Computer Science at the University of Technology Clausthal, Germany, and graduated in 1997. He received his doctoral degree in 2001 and his Habilitation in 2006 from the University of Bayreuth (Germany). In 2003 he was a visiting professor at the University of California, San Diego (USA). From 2004 to 2007 he held a junior professorship for numerical optimal control at the Department of Mathematics of the University of Hamburg (Germany), and moved to a lecturer position for mathematical optimization at the University of Birmingham (U.K.) from 2007 to 2009. From 2009 to 2010 he was an associate professor for optimal control at the University of Würzburg (Germany). Since 2010 he is a full professor for engineering mathematics at the Department of Aerospace Engineering of the Universität der Bundeswehr München (Germany). His primary research interests are optimal control, optimization techniques, model-predictive control, differential-algebraic equations, and sensitivity analysis. The methods are applied in path planning and trajectory optimization tasks in automated driving, robotics, and aerospace engineering.