Florian Dörfler

Florian Dörfler’s research interests are centered around distributed control and optimization in complex, cyber-physical, and networked systems with applications to smart power grids, robotic coordination, and social networks. Topics of recent interest include stability and control in low-inertia power grids, online feedback optimization with applications to power systems operation, distributed and plug-and- play control and optimization, data-driven black-box control, and synchronization in complex networks. 

Florian Dörfler is an Associate Professor at the Automatic Control Laboratory at ETH Zürich and the Associate Head of the Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering. He received his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 2013, and a Diplom degree in Engineering Cybernetics from the University of Stuttgart in 2008. From 2013to 2014 he was an Assistant Professor at the University of California Los Angeles. He is a recipient of the distinguished young research awards by IFAC (Manfred Thoma Medal 2020) and EUCA (EuropeanControl Award 2020). His students were winners or finalists for Best Student Paper awards at the European Control Conference (2013, 2019), American Control Conference (2016), Conference on Decisionand Control (2020), PES General Meeting (2020), and PES PowerTech Conference (2017). He received the 2010 ACC Student Best Paper Award, the 2011 O. Hugo Schuck Best Paper Award, the 2012-2014 Automatica Best Paper Award, the 2016 IEEE Circuits and Systems Best Paper Award, and the 2015UCSB ME Best PhD award.