TAREK RAISSI
Position: Full Professor at Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers of Paris
Biography: Tarek Raïssi received the Engineering degree from Ecole Nationale d’Ingenieurs de Tunis in 2000, the M.Sc. in Automatic Control from Ecole Centrale de Lille in 2001, the Ph.D. degree in Automatic Control from the University of Paris XII in 2004 and the Accreditation to Supervise/ Conduct Research (HDR) from the University of Bordeaux 1 in 2012. From 2005 to 2011 he was an Associate Professor at the University of Bordeaux 1. Currently, he is a Full Professor at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers, Paris, France. He is a member of the IFAC Technical Committee Modelling, Identification and Signal Processing and a Senior member of IEEE. His research interests include fault detection and isolation, nonlinear systems estimation and robust control.
CORSIN BATTAGLIA
Position: Head of Laboratory at Empa and Professor at ETH Zurich and EPFL
Biography: Corsin Battaglia is directing the laboratory Materials for Energy Conversion at Empa, the Swiss Federal Laboratories of Materials Science and is Adjunct Professor of Electrical Engineering at ETH Zurich, Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering and Adjunct Professor of Materials Science at EPFL, School of Engineering, Institute of Materials. His current research focuses on sustainable next-generation lithium-ion batteries, post-lithium-ion batteries, and the electrochemical conversion of CO2 to synthetic fuels. After receiving his PhD in Physics from the Université de Neuchâtel, he was a postdoctoral researcher at EPFL, the University of California Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories, before joining Empa in 2014. He is co-author of more than 200 peer-reviewed scientific publications and 8 patent applications. He is currently the vice-president of the Swiss Battery Association iBAT, member of the long-term large-scale European Battery Initiative Battery 2030, the Alistore Network, the Upcell Alliance, and the Battery European Partnership Association.
ANDREAS RAUH
Position: Full Professor with the Department of Computing Science of the Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany
Head of the Research Group “Distributed Control in Interconnected Systems”
Dean of the School for Computing Science, Business Administration, Economics, and Law
Biography: Andreas Rauh received his diploma degree in electrical engineering and information technology from the Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany, in 2001, his PhD degree (Dr.-Ing.) from the University of Ulm, Germany, in 2008, and his habilitation (Dr.-Ing. habil.) in Measurement Technology and Automatic Control from the University of Rostock, Germany, in 2017. After a research stay at ENSTA Bretagne (Brest, France), Andreas was appointed Full Professor at the Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany, where he is heading the group “Distributed Control in Interconnected Systems” since October 2021. His research interests include modeling, control, as well as state and parameter estimation for systems with stochastic and set-valued uncertainty. Applications of these methods are investigated in the fields of robotics as well as for battery systems, fuel cells, and electrolyzers. Moreover, Andreas was member of the IEEE 1788 Working Group for the Standardization of Interval Arithmetic.
MARCELLO COLLEDANI
Position: Full professor at Politecnico di Milano
Biography: Marcello Colledani graduated in Mechanical Engineering in 2003 at Politecnico di Milano. In May 2006 he classified first in the selection for a permanent position as Assistant Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Politecnico di Milano. In May 2007 he received his Phd cum laude in Manufacturing Technology and Production Systems from Politecnico di Milano. In 2008-2009 he spent 1 year as a visiting professor at the Laboratory for Manufacturing and Productivity LMP of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT in US, carrying on research activity in collaboration with Prof. Stanley Gershwin. The research was sponsored by a Progetto Rocca grant. Since then, he regularly spends research periods at MIT, collaborating with Prof. Gutowski, of the Environmental Benign Manufacturing group, and Prof. Gershwin, every year. He is Research Associate of the Institute of Industrial Technology and Automation of the CNR (ITIA-CNR), member of Automotive Part Remanufacturing Association and of the Board of Directors of APRA-Europe. Within the Mechanical Engineering Department at Politecnico di Milano, he is full professor and is currently coordinating the European projects BATTwin and rEUman. His main research interests include : (i) Modelling, performance evaluation, design and reconfiguration of complex, evolving manufacturing systems; (ii) Modelling and design of de-and remanufacturing technologies and systems for the circular economy.
