Markos Papageorgiou

Markos Papageorgiou was a Professor of Automation with the Technical University of Munich, Germany, from 1988 to 1994. Since 1994 he has been a Professor (since 2021 Professor Emeritus) at the Technical University of Crete, Greece. Since 2021 he has also an appointment at Ningbo University, China. He was a Visiting Professor with the Politecnico di Milano, the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, MIT, UC Berkeley, Sapienza University of Rome, and Tsinghua University. His research interests include automatic control, optimisation and applications to transportation systems, water systems, and further areas. He is Life Fellow of IEEE and Fellow of IFAC. He received several distinctions and awards, including the 2020 IEEE Transportation Technologies Award and two ERC Advanced Investigator Grants.