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 LCCC at Lund University.
Rantzer has been serving as 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.