Paolo Mercorelli

Vita

Paolo Mercorelli (Member, IEEE) received a PhD degree in systems engineering from the University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy, in 1998. In 1997, he was Visiting Researcher for one year with the Department of Mechanical and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA. From 1998 to 2001 he was Postdoctoral Researcher with Asea Brown Boveri Corporate Research, Heidelberg, Germany, and this research activity has brought him 3 patents. From 2002 to 2005 he was Senior Researcher with the Institute of Automation and Informatics, Wernigerode, Germany, where he was the leader of the control group. 

From 2005 to 2011 he was Associate Professor of Process Informatics with the Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences, Wolfsburg, Germany. Since 2012, he has been Full Professor and Chair of control and drive systems with the Institute for Production Technology and Systems, Leuphana University of Lueneburg, Lueneburg, Germany. 

Since winter semester 2017/2018, he has been International Distinguished Visiting Professor with the Institute of Automatic Control, Lodz University of Technology, Lodz, Poland, where he has been responsible for different courses in the field of control of robotic systems. Since winter semester 2024/2025, he has been Visiting Professor with the Faculty of Mathematics and Information Technology of Lublin University of Technology, Poland, where he has been responsible for different courses in the field of control theory. His current research interests include applications of Kalman filters, robotics, wavelets, geometric control, and sliding mode control. 

He has been listed among the world’s top 2% scientists, included in both the career-long and single-year rankings, according to the Elsevier database and Stanford University. More information and records can be found at the following links:

ORCID Profile: 0000-0003-3288-5280