Short biography
Anders Rantzer received a Ph.D. degree in optimization and systems theory in 1991 from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden. After postdoctoral positions at KTH and at IMA, University of Minnesota, he joined the Department of Automatic Control at Lund Univeristy in 1993. He was appointed professor of Automatic Control in Lund 1999. The academic year of 2004/05 he was visiting associate faculty member at Caltech. Since 2008 he coordinates the Linnaeus center LCCCat Lund University. For the period 2013-15 he also serves as chairman of the Swedish Scientific Council for Natural and Engineering Sciences.
Rantzer has been associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control and several other journals. He is a winner of the SIAM Student Paper Competition, the IFAC Congress Young Author Price and the IET Premium Award for the best article in IEE Proceedings - Control Theory & Applications during 2006. He is a Fellow of IEEE and a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences.
His research interests are in modeling, analysis and synthesis of control systems, with particular attention to uncertainty, optimization and distributed control.