Academic activities

• Professor of Automatic Control

• Associate Editor of Automatica

• Director of the System Dynamics Laboratoy

Past activities

• 1985: Lecturer of Numerical Analysis

• 1986-1992: Research Associate of Dynamic System Theory

• 1992-2000: Associate Professor of Automatic Control

Biography

Franco Blanchini was born on 29 December 1959, in Legnano (Italy). He received the Laurea degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Trieste, Italy, in 1984. In 1985 he was Lecturer of Numerical Analysis at the Faculty of Science at the University of Udine, Italy. He was Research Associate of System Theory from 1986 to 1991. From November 1992 to October 2000, he was Associate Professor of Automatic Control at the Engineering Faculty of the University of Udine. Since November 2000 he is Professor of Automatic Control at the Engineering Faculty of the University of Udine. He is affiliated with the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science in Udine and he is Director of the Laboratory of System Dynamics of the Department. He was member of the program committees of the 1997 Conference on Decision and Control, S. Diego, California, of the 1999 Conference on Decision and Control, Phoenix, Arizona, of the 2001 Conference on Decision and Control, Orlando, Florida and of the 2003 Conference on Decision and Control, Maui Hawaii. He was co-author of the plenary lecture "Minicourse on Saturation in Control", at the 19th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control, 2000. He was Chairman of the workshop on Uncertain Dynamical Systems of the IFAC Technical Committee on Robust Control, Cascais, Portugal, July 18-20, 2002. He has been Program Vice-Chairman for the conference Joint CDC-ECC, Seville, Spain, December 2005. He has been Program Vice-Chairman for Invited Sessions for the Conference CDC-2008, Cancun, Mexico, December 2008.

He is the recipient of 2001 ASME Oil & Gas Application Committee Best Paper Award as a co-author of the article ``Experimental evaluation of a High--Gain Control for Compressor Surge Instability". He is the recipient of the 2002 IFAC prize survey paper award as author or the article "Set Invariance in Control--a survey", Automatica, November, 1999. He was nominated Senior Member IEEE in 2003. He has been Associate Editor for Automatica from 1996 to 2006. He is Associate Editor for IEEE Transctions on Automatic Control since 2011.