ProfessorThomas Parisini

I received the ``Laurea'' degree (Cum Laude and printing honours) in Electronic Engineering from the University of Genoa in 1988 and the Ph.D. degree in Electronic Engineering and Computer Science in 1993. I was with Politecnico di Milano, and I hold the Chair of Industrial Control at Imperial College London. I'm serving as the Head of the Control and Power Research Group and I served as Director of Research at the Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. I'm also Professor and Danieli Endowed Chair of Automation Engineering with University of Trieste. In 2009-2012, I have been appointed Deputy Rector of University of Trieste. Also, I was awarded a Distinguished Professorship at Aalborg University, Denmark.

In 2023 I was the recipient of the Knighthood of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic for scientific achievements abroad awarded by the Italian President of the Republic.

In 2018 I received the Honorary Doctorate from the University of Aalborg, Denmark and in 2024, the IEEE CSS Transition to Practice Award. In 2026, I have been elected as member of the Academia Europaea. Moreover, I was awarded the 2007 IEEE Distinguished Member Award, and was co-recipient of the IFAC Best Application Paper Prize of the Journal of Process Control for the period 2011-2013 and of the 2004 Outstanding Paper Award of IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks. In 2016, I was awarded as Principal Investigator with Imperial of the H2020 European Union flagship Teaming Project KIOS Research and Innovation Centre of Excellence led by the University of Cyprus with an overall budget of over 40 million Euros. I was the 2021-2022 President of the IEEE Control Systems Society and the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology (2009-2016).

I authored or co-authored a research monograph in the most prestigious series of Springer Nature and over 400 research papers in archival journals, book chapters, and international conference proceedings. My research interests include monitoring, diagnosis, control and security of large-scale critical infrastructure systems with applications in smart grids, transportation networks, power electronics and industrial process control.

I served as the 2021-2022 President of the IEEE Control Systems Society and during 2009-2016 I served as the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Trans. on Control Systems Technology. 

Since 2018 I am the Editor in Chief of the European Journal of Control. Since 2017, I'm also serving as Editor for Control Applications of Automatica. I served as the Chair of the IFAC Technical Committee on Fault Detection, Supervision & Safety of Technical Processes - SAFEPROCESS. I was the Chair of the IEEE Control Systems Society Conference Editorial Board and a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Control Systems Society. I was an elected member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Control Systems Society and of the European Control Association (EUCA) and a member of the board of evaluators of the 7th Framework and of the Horizon 2020 framework Research Program of the European Union. I'm also currently serving as an Associate Editor of the Int. J. of Control and I served as Associate Editor of the IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control, of the IEEE Trans. on Neural Networks. Among other activities, I was the Program Chair of the 2008 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, the Program Chair of the 2018 European Control Conference, and General Co-Chair of the 2013 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and of the 2018 IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications. I'm General Co-Chair of the 2022 European Control Conference.

I am a Fellow of the IEEE and of IFAC.