Alexander Lanzon

Biography

Prof. Alexander Lanzon holds the Chair in Control Engineering at the University of Manchester, is the Director of the Laboratory for Control of Uncertain Dynamical Systems and is a Deputy Head of Division within the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Manchester. He also served as Deputy Research Director of the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Manchester between 2013 and 2015.

Prior to joining the University of Manchester, Alexander held academic positions at Georgia Institute of Technology and the Australian National University, and industrial positions at ST-Microelectronics Ltd., Yaskawa Denki (Tokyo) Ltd. and National ICT Australia Ltd. He received his Ph.D. degree in Control Engineering and his M.Phil. degree in Robot Control from the University of Cambridge in 2000 and 1997 respectively and received his B.Eng.(Hons). degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Malta in 1995. He is also a Chartered Engineer.

Prof. Lanzon is a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, the Institute of Measurement and Control, and the Institution of Engineering and Technology. He is also an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control and has served as a Subject Editor for the International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control.

Qualifications

Ph.D. (Cambridge), M.Phil. (Cambridge), B.Eng. (Hons).