Dr. Rolf JOHANSSON, Biographical details
Rolf Johansson received the Master-of-Science degree in Technical
Physics
in 1977, the Bachelor-of-Medicine degree in 1980, the doctorate in
control theory 1983, was appointed Docent in 1985, and received the
Doctor-of-Medicine
degree (M.D.) in 1986, all from Lund University, Lund, Scandinavia. He
is
member IEEE; fellow of the Swedish Society of Medicine; and fellow
of the Royal Physiographic Society, Section of Medicine.
Since 1986 he has been with the Dept. Automatic Control, Lund
University, where he is currently Professor of control science. In
his scientific work, he has been involved in research in adaptive
system theory,
mathematical modeling, system identification, robotics and signal
processing.
Since 1987, he has also participated in research and as a graduate
advisor
at the Faculty of Medicine, Lund University Hospital. He has had
the
following visiting appointments: Researcher, 1985, Centre
National
de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Grenoble, France; Visiting
scientist
CalTech, CA, June 1997, June 2001; Rice Univ., Houston, TX, May 1998,
May
2001; Supélec, Paris, France, June 1998; Univ. Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, IL; UC Santa Barbara, CA, Aug. 1999; Univ.
Napoli Fed II, Italy, July
2000; Guest Professor, NTNU, Trondheim, NO, Aug. 2001; Guest Professor
at
CIDAC, Univ. Newcastle, Australia, July 2003. Tsinghua Univ., Beijing,
China, Nov. 2003, Aug. 2004; Hon.Visiting Professor, North China Univ.
Science and Technology (NCUST), Taiyuan,
Shanxi, China, 2003; Hon. Visiting Professor, Wuhan Univ. Science and
Technology (WUST), Wuhan, Hubei, China, 2004;
Russell S. Springer Visiting Professor 2004, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA;
Universidad de Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain, June 2004;
Universidad de Jaén, Jaén, Spain, July 2005.
Rolf Johansson was awarded the 1995 biomedical engineering prize (the Ebeling
Prize) of the Swedish Society of Medicine for distinguished contribution
to the study of human balance through application and development of system
analysis and robotics. In 1993-2002, he was coordinating
director in robotics research with participants from several
departments of Lund University. He is Assoc. Editor of Int. J. Adaptive Control & Signal Processing since 1999. In 1993 he published the book System Modeling
and Identification, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ (Information
and System Sciences Series Ed. T. Kailath).
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