Contact Information:

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Center for Control, Dynamical Systems and Computation

University of California at Santa Barbara

Santa Barbara, CA 93106-5070

Email: doerfler (at) engineering (dot) ucsb (dot) edu

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General Research Interests:

  1. Transient stability analysis in large-scale power networks

  2. Cooperative control and motion coordination algorithms for autonomous agent systems

  3. Analysis and design of Port-Hamiltonian systems with applications to process engineering

I entered the Ph.D. program at the University of California, Santa Barbara in September 2009 in the area of Dynamical Systems and Control. My Ph.D. advisor is Professor Francesco Bullo. My prior diploma education was in Engineering Cybernetics at the University of Stuttgart advised by Professor Frank Allgöwer and as visiting student at the University of Toronto advised by Professor Bruce Francis. My research interests are in the field of network control with current focus on transient stability in power networks.

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