Timm Faulwasser

Editorial Activities and Special Issues

• Associate Editor IEEE Control Systems Letters (since 2020)
• Associate Editor Mathematics of Control Signals and Systems (since 2020)
• Associate Editor IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (since 2020)
• Associate Editor European Journal of Control (2018 - 2022)

• Guest editor, jointly with Kathrin Flasskamp, Klaus Röbenack and Karl Worthmann of the special issue on Optimal control–analysis, algorithms and applications in at – Automatisierungstechnik (Volume 72), DOI: 10.1515/auto-2023-0235, 2024.
• Guest editor of the IEEE Control Systems Letters Special Section on Data-Driven Analysis and Control,  IEEE Control Systems Letters(Volume 7). DOI: 10.1109/LCSYS.2023.3271448, 2023.
• Joint editorship with Matthias Müller and Karl Worthmann of Recent Advances in Model Predictive Control: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications,  Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, Springer, 2021.
• Guest editor, jointly with Antonio Ferramosca of the special issue on MPC for Energy Systems: Economic and Distributed Approaches in Optimal Control – Applications and Methods (OCAM), Wiley. DOI: 10.1002/oca.2573, 2020.
• Guest editor, jointly with Simone Göttlich and Karl Worthmann of the special issue on Mathematical Innovations for the Energy Transition – Control and Optimization in at – Automatisierungstechnik, 2020.

Conference Editorial and IPC Activities

• 24th European Control Conference (ECC), 2026
• 9^th IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA), 2025
• IEEE PowerTech Kiel 2025
• 25^th International Conference on Process Control, 2025
• 8^th IFAC Conference for Nonlinear Model Predictive Control, 2024
• 26^th International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems (MTNS), 2024
• 8^th IFAC Workshop on Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Methods for Nonlinear Control (LHMNC), 2024
• 24^th International Conference on Process Control, 2023
• 22^nd IFAC World Congress, 2023
• 25^th International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems (MTNS), 2022
• 7^th IFAC Workshop on Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Methods for Nonlinear Control (LHMNC), 2021
• Area Chair "Economic MPC" for 7^th IFAC Conference for Nonlinear Model Predictive Control, 2021
• 21^st IFAC World Congress, 2020
• 23^rd International Conference on Process Control, 2021
• Associate Editor Conference Editorial Board of the IEEE Control System Society (IEEE CSS), 2015 - 2022 for American Control Conference (2016 - 2021) and the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (2015 - 2022)

07/2025 European Control Award 2025: More information about the award.

10/2023 Keynote Talk 6^th IEEE CCAC 2024 Colombian Conference of Automatic Control (CCAC), October 2023 Popayan, Colombia.

07/2023 Automatica Paper Prize 2020-2022: T. Faulwasser and C. Kellett. On Continuous-Time Infinite Horizon Optimal Control Dissipativity, Stability and Transversality. In: Automatica, 2021

06/2021 Finalist best student paper award at European Control Conference (as co-author): M. Schaller, F. Philipp, T. Faulwasser, K. Worthmann, and B. Maschke. Control of port-Hamiltonian systems with minimal energy supply. In: European Journal of Control, 2021

01/2020 Outstanding Service as Reviewer for IEEE Control Systems Letters (L-CSS) in 2019.

01/2019 Outstanding Service as Reviewer for IEEE Control Systems Letters (L-CSS) in 2018.

08/2018 Keynote Talk 6^th IFAC Conference on Nonlinear Model Predictive Control, August 2018 Madison, Wisconsin, USA.

06/2018 Audience choice award (poster) A. Murray, T. Faulwasser and V. Hagenmeyer: Assessment of a multi-agent mixed-integer optimization algorithm for battery scheduling, ACM e-Energy 2018, 9^th ACM Int. Conference on Future Energy Systems, Karlsruhe.

01/2018 Outstanding Service as Reviewer for IEEE Control Systems Letters (L-CSS) in 2017.

11/2017 International Discovery Award, Australian Research Council.

02/2017 – 11/2020 Postdoctoral fellow of the Daimler und Benz Stiftung, Ladenburg.

10/2016 – 10/2019 KIT Associate Fellow at Department for Computer Science, Karlruhe Institute of Technology

11/2015 – 10/2019 Fellow of the Elite Programme for Postdocs of the Baden-Württemberg Stiftung.

06/2015 Keynote Talk 9^th International Symposium on Advanced Control of Chemical Processes (ADCHEM), June, 2015, Whistler, Kanada.

03/2010 Best PhD Student Presentation, 6. Elgersburg Workshop on Mathematical Systems Theory, 2010.

02/2010 Best Paper Award: T. Faulwasser, B. Kern, P. Varutti & R. Findeisen. Prädiktive Regelung nichtlinearer Systeme unter asynchronen Mess- und Stellsignalen, at – Automatisierungstechnik, p. 279-286, 2009.

02/2010 Best Presentation Award 44. Regelungstechnisches Kolloquiums Boppard.

05/2025 EECI International Graduate School on Control 2025:Dissipativity in Optimal Control - Turnpikes, Predictive Control, and Uncertainty. Joint effort with Lars Grüne (University of Bayreuth).  (Link)

04/2025 Workshop – Future PhD in control?! Joint effort with Moritz Diehl (ALU Freiburg), Sandra Hirche (TU Munich), Matthias Müller (LU Hannover), and Karl Worthmann (TU Ilmenau). Supported by the IEEE CSS Outreach Fund and by the European Control Association. (Link)

05/2024 Brig workshop on dissipativity in systems and control, Brig, Switzerland. Joint effort with Matthias Voigt (UniDistance.ch) and Benjamin Unger (University of Stuttgart). Supported by the Swiss National Fonds. (Link)

07/2023 Open invited track at 2023 IFAC World Congress Yokohama. Topic: Data-driven Methods in Control: Analysis, Feedback Design and Optimization.  Joint effort with Karl Worthmann (TU Ilmenau), Julian Berberich (University of Stuttgart), Florian Dörfler (ETH Zürich), Paolo Rapisarda (University of Southampton), and Henk van Waarde (University of Groningen). (Link)

07/2023 Pre-conference Workshop at the IFAC World Congress 2023, Yokohama. Data-driven Predictive Control: Whence and Whither? Joint effort with Karl Worthmann (TU Ilmenau). (Link)

07/2022 Special session on Data-driven and learning-based methods at 15th Viennese Conference on Optimal Control and Dynamic Games, Vienna. Joint effort with Karl Worthmann (TU Ilmenau).

02/2023 Virtual seminar of the IFAC Technical Committee on Optimal Control. Topic: Optimization-based control and learning. Joint effort with Thulasi Mylvaganam (Imperial College London, UK).

05&06/2022 Virtual seminar of the IFAC Technical Committee on Optimal Control. Topic: Trends in software and tools for optimal and predictive control. Joint effort with Thulasi Mylvaganam (Imperial College London, UK).

05/2022 Trends in dissipativity in systems and control, Brig, Switzerland. Joint effort with Matthias Voigt (UniDistance.ch) and Benjamin Unger (Uni Stuttgart). Supported by the Swiss National Fonds.

12/2021 Virtual seminar of the IFAC Technical Committee on Optimal Control. Topic: Data-driven Methods in Control (2). Joint effort with Thulasi Mylvaganam (Imperial College London, UK).

10/2021 Indo-German Symposium on Machine Learning and Control for Energy Systems. Joint effort with Ashish Hota (IIT Kharagpour).

10/2021 Invited session at 7th IFAC Workshop on Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Methods for Nonlinear Control, Berlin. Topic: Trends in Dissipativity-based Control. Joint effort with Karl Worthmann and Johann Reger (both TU Ilmenau).

07/2021 Panel discussion at 7th IFAC Conference on Nonlinear Model Predictive Control (IFAC NMPC) 2021. Topic: Teaching MPC – Which way to the promised land? Joint effort with Martin Mönnigmann (RU Bochum), Moritz Schulze Darup and Sergio Lucia (both TU Dortmund).

07/2021 Virtual seminar by the IFAC Technical Committee on Optimal Control. Topic:Data-driven Methods in Control (1). Joint effort with Karl Worthmann (TU Ilmenau) and Thulasi Mylvaganam (Imperial College London, UK).

03/2021 Minisymposium on Dissipativity, Turnpikes and Optimal Control at the 91th Annual meeting of Gesellschaft für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik (GAMM), Kassel. Joint effort with Lars Grüne (Universität Bayreuth).

07/2020 Open invited track at 2020 IFAC World Congress Berlin. Topic: Uncertainty Quantification in Control and Optimization – Tools, Methods and Applications.  Joint effort with Stefan Streif (TU Chemnitz), Stefan Gerster (RWTH Aachen) and Rene Schenkendorf (TU Braunschweig).

03/2018 Workshop Prädiktive Regelung im Zeichen industrieller Anwendungen, Berlin.Joint effort with Jürgen Pannek (Universität Bremen), Sergio Lucia (TU Berlin) and Marleen Stieler (Universität Bayreuth).

01/2018 661. Wilhelm-und-Else Heraeus Seminar on Nonlinear Dynamics, Optimization and Control of Distributed Energy Systems, joint effort with Joachim Knebel (KIT), Dirk Witthaut and Martin Robinius (both Forschungszentrum Jülich).

12/2017 Invited session auf der 2017 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control: Advances on Optimal Power Flow – Stochastic and Robust Approaches. Joint effort with Florian Dörfler (ETH Zürich).

12/2017 Pre-conference workshop at 2017 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control:Economic Nonlinear Model Predictive Control. Joint effort with Matthias Müller (Universität Stuttgart) and Lars Grüne (Universität Bayreuth).

07/2017 Open invited track at 2017 IFAC World Congress Toulouse, France. Topic: Nonlinear Model Predictive Control for Mechatronic Systems and Motion Control. Joint effort with Jürgen Pannek (Universität Bremen) and Andrea Alessandretti (University of Porto). 

07/2017 Open invited track at 2017 IFAC World Congress Toulouse, France. Topic: Real-Time Optimization of Uncertain Process Systems. Joint effort with Alejandro Marchetti (EPFL), Gregory Francois (University of Edinburgh), and Dominique Bonvin (EPFL). 

03/2016 Workshop on Economic and Distributed Model Predictive Control an der École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne 21.-23. März, 2016; joint effort with Colin Jones (EPFL) and Karl Worthmann (TU Ilmenau).

06/2014 Minisymposium on Optimization and Optimization-based Control Methods for Industrial Applications at European Conference of Mathematics in Industry 2014 (ECMI 2014), Taormina, Italy; joint effort with Kahtrin Flaßkamp (Universität Paderborn).

03/2012 Young Researchers' Minisymposium on Trends in Model Predictive Control at 83. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik (GAMM), Darmstadt; joint effort with Karl Worthmann (TU Ilmenau).