Joachim Rudolph

Short Biography

• 2009: full professor and head of the Chair of Systems Theory and Control Engineering at Saarland University, Germany
• 2003: habilitation in the field of control theory (german: Regelungs- und Steuerungstheorie) at the Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering at TU Dresden, Germany
• 1991: doctoral degree from Université Paris Sud, Orsay, France
• 1989: diploma (Dipl.-Ing.) in technical cybernetics from Stuttgart University, Germany

extended biography

Teaching

• Systems Theory and Control Engineering 1
• Systems Theory and Control Engineering 2
• Systems Theory and Control Engineering 3
• Systems Theory and Control Engineering 4
• Systems Theory and Control Engineering 5
• Systems Modelling - Continuous Systems
• Seminar on topical problems in control

Administrative Duties at UdS (selection)

• Erasmus coordinator for the Mechatronics Department
• coordinator of the binational french-german studies in mechatronics 
• deputy member of the faculty council 2015-2020, since then deputy
• Managing director and spokesman for Systems Engineering 2017-2020, since then deputy

Research Projects (selection)

• DFG-project "Regelung von Trikoptern beim gemeinsamen Transport von an Seilen aufgehängten Lasten", since 2014
• EFI-project "Digitalhydraulik" (digital hydraulics) at ZeMA, since 2011
• DFG-project"Parameteridentifikation in Systemen mit örtlich verteilten Parametern und örtlich konzentrierten Messgrößen" (identification of parameters in systems with distributed parameters and lumped measurements), since 2010

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Editorial Work (selection)

• Associate Editor for "Mathematical and Computer Modelling of Dynamical Systems" (link)
• Associate Editor for "IMA Journal of Mathematical Control and Information" 2008-2021, since then editor (link)
• Associate Editor for "International Journal of Systems Science" 2004-2021, since then editor (link)

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Memberships

• IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (link)
• IMA (Fellow) - Institute of Mathematics (link)
• IFAC-TC 2.6 "Distributed parameter systems" (link)
• GAMM - Gesellschaft für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik (link)
• VDE - Verband der Elektrotechnik, Elektronik und Informationstechnik (link)
• DHV - Deutscher Hochschulverband (link)