Scholar
Knut Graichen
Google Scholar ID: _QFqdcAAAAAJ
Professor
Citations & Impact
Citations
2,225
H-index
23
i10-index
58
Publications
20
Co-authors
0
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Best Paper Award 2025 Association for Iron & Steel Technology (AIST), 2025; Best Paper Award of at-Automatisierungstechnik 2024, 2021, 2015 (2x) and 2010; Toshio Fukuda Best Paper Award in Mechatronics, IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation (ICMA), 2022; Outstanding Paper Award, 6th IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA), 2022; Best Paper Award in Automation, International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation (ICMA), 2020; Senior Member IEEE (since April 2020); Appointment to the Professorship for Automatic Control, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 2018; Science-Industry Cooperation Award 2017, University of Ulm; Appointment to the Professorship for Applied Computer Science and Automation, Karlsruher Institute of Technology (KIT), 2015; Appointment to the Professorship for Measurement and Automation Technology, University of Ulm, 2009; Research Fellowship 2007, MINES ParisTech (France); LEWA Award 2006, Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Engineering Cybernetics, University of Stuttgart; Best Presentation Award, 40th Colloquium on Automatic Control, Boppard (22.-24. 2006).
Research Experience
- Since April 2019, Full Professor and Head of the Institute of Automatic Control, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg; August 2010 to March 2019, Professor at the Institute for Measurement, Control and Microtechnology, University of Ulm; January 2008 to July 2010, Postdoc at the Automation and Control Institute, Vienna Technical University, Austria; January 2007 to December 2007, Postdoc at the Centre Automatique et Systèmes, MINES ParisTech, France; August 2002 to December 2006, Research Assistant at the Institute for System Dynamics, University of Stuttgart.
Education
- October 1997 to July 2002, studied Engineering Cybernetics at the University of Stuttgart (Germany); October 2001 to June 2002, worked at Robert Bosch Corp., Research and Technology Center North America (RTC), Palo Alto (USA); November 2006, received his doctoral degree (Dr.-Ing.) from the University of Stuttgart (Germany).
Background
- Research interests include control and optimization, learning in control, discrete event systems, mechatronics and automotive, robotics, and energy solutions.
Miscellany
- Member of the advisory board of the VDI/VDE Society for Measurement and Automation Technology (GMA), since 2025; Editor-in-Chief of Control Engineering Practice, since 2024; Member IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS) Industry Committee, since 2021; Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Control Engineering Practice, 2016-2021; Head of Technical Committee 'Foundations of Networked Systems' (FA 1.50), German Association of Measurement and Automation Technology (GMA), 2015-2021; Member of Technical Committee 'Optimal Control' (TC 2.4), International Federation on Automatic Control (IFAC).
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