Arjan van der Schaft receives IEEE Control Systems Award

Arjan van der Schaft, Emeritus Professor of Applied Analysis at the University of Groningen, will receive the 2027 IEEE Roger W. Brockett Control Systems Award. The award is sponsored by the IEEE Control Systems Society and recognises outstanding contributions to control systems engineering, science and technology. As the 2027 recipient, Van der Schaft will receive a medal, a certificate and an honorarium of USD 10,000.

The award citation recognises Van der Schaft ‘for contributions to robust and geometric nonlinear control, hybrid systems, and control of physical systems’. He is the first Dutch recipient of the award and the second researcher associated with the University of Groningen to receive it. The award will be presented during the IEEE Technical Field Awards Luncheon on 5 May 2027 in New York City, as part of IEEE Honors Week. Furthermore, special attention will be paid to it during the award ceremony of the yearly IEEE Conference on Decision and Control in Lisbon in December 2027.

We congratulate Prof. van der Schaft on this well-deserved achievement. Read more about it in the article.