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Open positions:

There are multiple options for MSc and PhD through scholarships and my own funding. I am currently also looking for a postdoc. Please contact me if interested!

New papers:

• C. Grussler, T. B. Burghi, Somayeh Sojoudi, Internally Hankel k-positive systems, SIAM J. Control Optim., 60(4),  2373-2392, 2022

• C. Grussler, A. Rantzer, On the Similarity of Nonnegative and Metzler Hessenberg Forms, Special Matrices, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 1-8., 2022

• C. Grussler, R. Sepulchre, Variation diminishing linear time-invariant systems, vol. 136, pp. 109985, Automatica, 2022

• C. Grussler, T. Damm, R. Sepulchre, Balanced truncation of k-positive systems, IEEE Trans. Autom. Control, 67(1), pp. 526-531, 2022 

• C. Grussler, A. Rantzer, On second-order cone positive systems, SIAM J. Control Optim., 59(4), 2717–2739, 2021

Short bio

I'm currently an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology and a Jane and Larry Sherman Fellow. I conduct research that broadly intersects with the areas of Control Theory, Mathematical Optimization and Machine Learning. In particular, I am interested in the development of total positivity theory towards a unifying framework of these areas. 

Until January 2021, I was a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, UC Berkeley, United States.  Prior to that, I was a Research Associate with the control group at the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom as well as a postdoc and PhD student at the Department of Automatic Control, Lund University, Sweden.  

In my undergraduate studies, I was part of a double degree program between the University of Kaiserslautern and Lund University. I received an MSc in Engineering Mathematics from Lund University and a Dipl.-Math. techn. in Industrial Mathematics from the University of Kaiserslautern.