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. Dr. Mercorelli was the recipient of a three-year scholarship from the Marie Curie Actions Research Fellowship Program, which is one of the most competitive and prestigious European awards sponsored by the European Commission from 1998 to 2001. He received seven best international conferences paper awards: IECON 2013, IECON 2014, CoDIT 2014, ICCC 2017, FedCSIS 2019, ACD 2019, ICCC 2020, ICSTCC 2023. He held twelve plenary lectures in international conferences. In the years 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024, he has been on the list of the top 2% scientists by Elsevier Database and (METRICS) University of Stanford (USA) (Ioannidis, J.; Boyack, K. & Baas, J., 2020, Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators, PLOS, October 16).  Since 2019 he has been Editor-in-Chief for the „Transactions on Computer Research“ an Open Access Journal from WSEAS. Since 2022, he has been Editor-in-Chief for the Section “Engineering Mathematics” in “Mathematics”, an Open Access Journal from MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. In summer semester 2023, he has been Visiting Professor with Chandigarh University, India, and responsible for the course of Control Systems.