Supervisor: Prof. dr. Arjan van der Schaft (JBI)

Arjan van der Schaft received the undergraduate (cum laude) and Ph.D. degrees in Mathematics from the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. In 1982 he joined the Department of Applied Mathematics,University of Twente, where he was appointed as full professor in Mathematical Systems and Control Theory in 2000. In September 2005 he returned to his Alma Mater as a full professor in Mathematics.

Arjan van der Schaft is Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC). He was Invited Speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians, Madrid, 2006. He was the 2013 recipient of the 3-yearly awarded Certificate of Excellent Achievements of the IFAC Technical Committee on Nonlinear Systems.

He is (co-)author of the following books: System Theoretic Descriptions of Physical Systems (1984), Variational and Hamiltonian Control Systems (1987, with P.E. Crouch), Nonlinear Dynamical Control Systems (1990, with H. Nijmeijer), L2-Gain and Passivity Techniques in Nonlinear Control (1996, 2000), An Introduction to Hybrid Dynamical Systems (2000, with J.M. Schumacher), Port-Hamiltonian Systems Theory: An Introductory Overview (2014, with D. Jeltsema).

Corporate webpage: http://www.rug.nl/staff/a.j.van.der.schaft/