PhD Students:

2022 - present. Efstratios Stratoglou .  Phd student in Automatic Control and Robotics at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.

Research topic: Geometric Control and Geometric Mechanics. 

2023 - present. Omayra Yago Nieto . Phd student in Automatic Control and Robotics at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.

Research topic: Data-driven control of mechanical systems. Geometric Integration.

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ALUMNI

Former Ph.D. Students:

Jacob Goodman (Ph.D. in Mathematic from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid). 2020-2023.  Now Assistant Professor at Nebrija University, Madrid, Spain.  Ph.D. thesis: Path planning on Riemannian manifolds with applications to quadrotor load transportation. 

Maria Emma Eyra Irazu (Ph.D. in Mathematics from Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina, co-advised with M. Zuccalli). 2014-2019.  Now Asistant Professor at Univeraidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina.  Ph.D. thesis: Geometric and Numerical Aspects of Mechanical Systems with Magnetic Terms. 

Former Postdocs:

Alexandre Anahory Simões (2021-2022). Postdoctoral Researcher, CSIC. Research topic: Geometric Mechanics and Control. Riemannian Geometry. Now Assistant Professor at IE University, Spain.

Maria Emma Eyra Irazu (2020-2023) Postdoctoral Resercher, CONICET-Argentina.Research topic: Geometric Mechanics and Hamilton-Jacobi theory. Now Asistant Professor at Univeraidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina. 

Former Master  Students:

Manuela Gamonal Fernandez  (Sept-Jun 2019-2020). Master in Computational and Statistical Treatment of the Information at Complutense University of Madrid.  Master Thesis: Data-driven control-oriented learning of Lagrangian control systems. JAE Intro Fellowship from CSIC at ICMAT .  

Omayra Yago Nieto  (Sept-Jul 2020-2021). Master in Engineering Mathematics at  Complutense University of Madrid.  Master Thesis: Optimal Control of multi-agent robotic systems.  Now, Ph.D student  at IMEIO PhD program UCM-UPM.

Veronica Arroyo Rodriguez  (Sept-Jul 2020-2021). Master in Advance Mathematics at  Complutense University of Madrid.  Master Thesis: Motion fesibility conditions for the coordinated motion of multi-agent systems.  JAE Intro Fellowship from CSIC at ICMAT  and Beca de Master ICMAT-Severo Ochoa. 

Former Undergraduate Students:

Jorge San Martín (April-August 2021). Practicum at ICMAT from UNED University, Madrid. Research topic:  Lie Poisson equations for rigid body dynamics and Energy-Casimir method for rigid body stability.  Now Master student in Mathematics at KU Leuven University, Belgium.

Omayra Yago Nieto (June-December 2019). Summer Internship and Practicum at ICMAT from Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM). Research topic:  Multi-agent systems on Lie groups and path planning strategies. Now Credit Risk Consultant at EY Ernst & Young Global Limited

Veronica Arroyo (June-December 2019). Summer Internship and Practicum at ICMAT from Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM) and Severo Ochoa Intro Fellow at ICMAT.   Research topic:  Data-driven methods for multi-agent systems

Enric Florit  (Mid June- Mid Sept 2019). Severo Ochoa Intro Fellow at ICMAT from Polytechnic University of Catalunya (UPC). Research topic: Collision avoidance on Riemannian manifolds and existence of minimizers in optimization problems. Now  Mathematics Visiting Student at ETH University.

Viviano Fernandez (May-Aug 2018) Severo Ochoa Intro Fellow at ICMAT from National University of La Plata (UNLP, Argentina) . Research topic: Geometric mechanics and Lie groups.  Now predoctoral fellow at CONICET Argentina and Ph.D student at UNLP.

Jacob Goodman (May-Aug 2018) Severo Ochoa Intro Fellow at ICMAT from University of Michigan.  Research topic: Poincaré maps and hybrid systems. Now La Caixa Inphinit Fellow at ICMAT.

Former Visiting Graduated Students:

Aradhana Nayak (visiting Ph.D. student from IIT-Bombay, India) . May-Aug 2018.  Now Postdoc at EPFL. Research topic: Trajectory tracking for nonholonomic mechnaical systems . 

Jacob Goodman (University of Michigan, USA). Visiting graduate student. May-Aug 2019. Now La Caixa Foundation InPhinit Fellow at ICMAT.  Research topic: Modeling Decentralized strategies for cooperative aerial robotics and Data-driven models for formation control.

Nidhish Raj  (visiting Ph.D. student from IIT-Kanpur, India) . October 2019.  Now researcher at DLR, German Aerospace Center, Munich. Research topic: Stability preserving gyroscopic structurer for a spinning tricopter.

Patricio Moreno (visiting Ph.D. student from University of Buenos Aires, Argentina) . October 2019. Now postdoctoral reearcher CONICET, Argentina. Research topic: Variational Integrators and distance-based formation control.