Women in Control Session

Laura Dal Col is currently working as Engineering Manager at King Digital Entertainment, a Swedish video game developer known for Candy Crush Saga. She is a proud graduate of l'Universita degli studi di Padova, Ingegneria Dell'informazione, and after her graduation in 2013 she was inspired to pursue a PhD programme in Distributed Control of Multiagent systems at LAAS CNRS, Toulouse. She transitioned from academia to industry in 2017, when she moved to Sweden to join Scania Autonomous Transport Solutions, where she worked with algorithms and software development for autonomous driving.

Steffi Knorn received the Dipl.Ing. degree from the University of Magdeburg, Germany, in 2008 and the Ph.D. degree from the Hamilton Institute, National University of Ireland Maynooth, Ireland, in 2013. In 2013, she was a Research Academic with the Centre for Complex Dynamic Systems and Control, University of Newcastle, Australia. Since 2014, she is with the Signals and Systems Division, Uppsala University, Sweden. From 2019 to 2021, she was an Assistant Professor with Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg. Since 2021, she is a Full Professor of Control with Technische Universität Berlin, Germany. Her research interests include stability analysis and controller design for marginally stable two-dimensional systems, port-Hamiltonian systems, string stability and scalability of vehicle platoons, distributed control, networked control, multisensor estimation, and energy harvesting and energy sharing in wireless networks. She is also involved in several outreach activities to promote control to a younger audience and to the general public.