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Antonis Papachristodoulou

Antonis Papachristodoulou

Biographical Sketch


I joined the University of Oxford in 2006, where I am currently the Statutory Professor in Control Engineering and a Fellow of Kellogg College. I was previously a tutorial fellow at Worcester College, EPSRC Fellow and Director of the EPSRC & BBSRC Centre for Doctoral training in Synthetic Biology.

I obtained an MA/MEng degree in Electrical and Information Sciences from the University of Cambridge, U.K., as a member of Robinson College in 2000. In 2005 I completed a PhD in Control and Dynamical Systems at the California Institute of Technology, with a PhD Minor in Aeronautics. 

My thesis was on "Scalable Analysis of Nonlinear Systems Using Convex Optimization". In 2005 I held a short David Crighton Fellowship at the University of Cambridge and a postdoctoral fellowship at the California Institute of Technology. In 2015 I was awarded the European Control Award for my contributions to robustness analysis and applications to networked control systems and systems biology and the O. Hugo Schuck Best Paper Award. 

I am an IEEE Fellow for my contributions to the analysis and design of networked control systems. I serve regularly on Technical Programme Committees for conferences and was associate editor for Automatica and IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.

I served as Programme co-chair for the 2024 European Control Conference and co-chair for the 2024 Learning for Decision and Control.

Exciting ventures starting in 2024 are the EEBio Programme Grant [1] and the UK Control Network.

Research Interests

  • Modern control theory, robust stability analysis and design
  • Nonlinear dynamical systems, Lyapunov stability
  • Convex optimisation (linear and semidefinite programming, LMIs), sum of squares programming
  • Synthetic and systems biology
  • Networked systems: multi-agent systems, consensus, flocking, alignment
  • Synchronisation of oscillator networks, Internet congestion control, population dynamic systems,  biochemical reaction networks
  • Aerospace systems and flow control

Selected Publications

A full and most up-to-date list can be found on Google Scholar. 

Teaching

Academic Years 2014-2022:

DTC Module on "Introduction to Systems and Synthetic Biology".
DTC Modules on "Synthetic Circuit Design" and "Systems and Control Theory for Synthetic Biology".

Academic Year 2022-2023:

Michaelmas 2022: B15 Optimal Control; B15 Limitations of Controller Performance

Academic Year 2023-2024:

Michaelmas 2023: B15 Optimal Control; B15 Limitations of Controller Performance

Academic Year 2024-2025:

Michaelmas 2023: EngBioCDT module on Mathematical Methods
Michaelmas 2023: B15 Optimal Control; B15 Limitations of Controller Performance

Contact Info

E-mail: antonis at eng point ox point ac point uk

Department Address: Room 50.04, Information Engineering Building, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PJ, United Kingdom

Telephone: +44 1865 283036