Laura Menini

CV of Laura Menini Place and date of birth: Roma, March 19, 1970. Email: laura.menini@uniroma2.it. Positions - She is currently Full Professor (in the field ``Automatica'') at the University of Roma Tor Vergata (since November March 2018). - She has been Researcher and Associate Professor (in the field ``Automatica'') at the University of Roma Tor Vergata (May 1997-October 2001 and November 2001-March 2018). Education - Laurea degree in Mechanical Engineering, summa cum laude, at the University of Roma Tor Vergata (July 15, 1993). Thesis: ``Newton and gradient algorithms for dynamic inversion of nonlinear functions, with application to the kinematic inversion problem for a human arm'' (in italian). - PhD in ``Computer Science and Control'', at the University of Roma Tor Vergata (July 8, 1997). Thesis: ``Control of sampled-data systems with continuous-time requirements'' (in italian). Research interests - Nonlinear control - Hybrid systems - Hamiltonian systems - Observer design - Algebraic Geometry methods - Geometric control - Robust Control - Multiobjective control - Periodic systems - Sampled-data systems - Modelling and control of mechanical systems Publications (summary of): - 80 papers on international journals; - 78 papers on proceedings of international conferences (on Scopus); - 6 chapters in books; - 5 books: F. Gentili, L. Menini, A. Tornambe, and L. Zaccarian, Mathematical Methods for System Theory. World Scientific, Singapore, 1998. L. Menini and A. Tornambe, Controlli Automatici. Esculapio, Bologna (Italy), 1999. (in italian) O. M. Grasselli, L. Menini, and S. Galeani, Sistemi Dinamici. Hoepli Editore, 2007. (in italian) L. Menini and A. Tornambe, Symmetries and Semi-invariants in the Analysis of Nonlinear Systems. Springer, 2011. - L. Menini, C. Possieri, A. Tornambe, Algebraic Geometry for Robotics and Control Theory, World Scientific, Singapore, 2022. - co-editor of 2 edited books: ``Modern Control Theory'', Esculapio (Bologna) 1999. ``Current trends in nonlinear systems and control'', Birkhauser (2006). Plenaries - Plenary Speaker at the IFAC Conference on Control Systems Design, 2003. - Plenary Speaker at the IFAC Symposium on Advances in Control Education, 2016. Editorial activities - Editor in Chief of IEEE Control Systems Letters (2025-) - Senior Editor of IEEE Control Systems Letters (2020-2024). - Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (2014-2019). - Associate Editor of Automatica (2017-2019). - Associate Editor of Systems and Control Letters (from 2012). - Associate Editor of Control Engineering Practice (2005-2017). - Associate Editor of the European Journal of Control (2013- 2017). - Associate Editor of the European Control Conference ECC (2014-2020). - Area Editor of the IFAC World Congress 2017 and 2020 (Toulouse and Berlin). - Associate Editor of the Conference Editorial Board of the IEEE Control System Society (2000-2017). - Associate Editor of the IFAC World Congress in the editions: 2011, 2014, 2017 and 2020.

Committees - Chair of the IFAC Coordinating Committee CC-2 Design Methods. - Chair of the IFAC Technical Committee 2.1 Control Design (2014-2020). - NOC Co-Chair of IFAC ACNDC 2027, Monteporzio Catone RM (Italy) - Publicity Chair of IFAC ADHS 2027, L'Aquila (Italy) - Registration Chair of the 58th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Nice (France), 2019. - Publications Chair of the 17th European Control Conference, Limassol (Cyprus), 2018. - Registration Chair of the 14th European Control Conference, Linz (Austria), 2015. - Publicity Co-Chair of the 51st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Maui (HW, USA), 2012. - Publicity Co-Chair of the 50th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and European Control Conference, Orlando (FL, USA), 2011. - Publicity Co-Chair of the 47th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Cancun (Mexico), 2008.