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• System theory and system identification.
  Realization of rational positive systems for biochemical reaction networks. Stochastic realization of non-Gaussian systems.
• System identification of nonlinear positive systems.
• Control of hybrid systems.
  Control-to-facet of piecewise-affine hybrid systems. Complexity of control of hybrid systems.
• Control of discrete-event systems.
  Distributed and modular control of discrete-event systems.
• Control of networks and decentralized control.
  Coordination control. Communication between controllers.
• Control of stochastic systems.
  Sufficient conditions for existence of analytic control laws.
• Control and system theory of biochemical reaction networks.
  Molecular cell biology. Modeling of biochemical reaction networks, in particular of metabolic networks. System reduction of biochemical systems.
  Modeling of genetic networks. Mathematical analysis of genetic networks.
• Distributed control of motorway traffic.

Vacancy for a post-doctoral researcher on the C4C Project Control for coordination of distributed systems.

Vacancy for a post-doctoral researcher on the EU.NEST project EC-MOAN.

Vacancy for a post-doctoral researcher on the NBIC SP.2.3.2 project.

Participation in externally financed projects - Current projects.

• EU.ICT.C4C
  Control for coordination of distributed systems.
  Financially supported by the European Commission through the program EU.ICT 223844.
  (Life time of the project is 1 May 2008 - 1 May 2011).
• EU.IST.NEST EC-MOAN
  Scalable modeling and analysis techniques to study emergent cell behavior - Understanding the E. coli stress response.
  Financially supported by the European Commission through the program EU.IST.NEST and the contract 043235.
  (Life time of project 1 February 2007 through 1 February 2010.)
• Towards functional models and control analysis of interconnected metabolic and regulatory networks,
  which is part of the project Mathematics and computation of the system biology of cells (Cell.Math.)
  (NWO Computational Life Sciences, 2005-2009).
• Control and realization of rational positive systems
  (NWO 613.000.442; 2005-2009).
• Biomathematics in mass spectroscopy based proteomics for identification and modeling of protein networks
  (NBIC.Biorange SP. 2.3.2; 2006-2009).

Participation in externally financed projects - Past projects.

• EU Esprit LTR Project Control and Computation (CC)
  Financially supported by the European Commission through the program ESPRIT LTR. Life time of the project was 1 January 2002 till 1 May 2005.
• EU TMR Project System Identification (SI)
  Financially supported by the European Commission through the program Training and Mobility of Researchers. Life time of project 1 March 1998 through 1 March 2003.
• EU Esprit LTR Project Verification of Hybrid Systems (VHS; 26270)
  VHS.CWI Information about the CWI participation in Project VHS.
  Financially supported by the European Commission through the program ESPRIT LTR. Life time of the project was 1 May 1998 till 1 November 2001.
• EU Transport Telematics Project DACCORD (TR 1017)
  (Lifetime of project was from 1 January 1996 to 1 March 1999.)

• Rene Boel (University of Gent, Gent, Belgium).
• Giorgio Picci (University of Padova, Padova, Italy).
• Pravin Varaiya (University of California, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.).
• Hans Westerhoff (VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands).
• European Research Network System Identification(ERNSI).

Workshops Organized

• NDNS+ Workshop Control Theory for Systems Biology,
  Held 12-14 November 2007, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
  See for details the web site.

• Control of discrete-time stochastic systems. Spring 2010.
  Lecturer: Jan H. van Schuppen.
  At the Department of Mathematics of the Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands.
• Mathematical System Theory. Spring 2010.
  Lecturer: Jan H. van Schuppen.
  At the Department of Mathematics of the VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
• Control of stochastic systems. Fall 2009.
  Lecturer: Jan H. van Schuppen.
  At the Department of Mathematics of the VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
• System identification for the life sciences. 2009 March.
  Lecturer: Jan H. van Schuppen.
  At the Department of Earth and Life Sciences of the Vrije Universiteit.
• Control of discrete-time stochastic systems. 2008 Spring.
  Lecturers: Arun Bagchi and Jan H. van Schuppen.
  The course is part of the course program of the Research School Dutch Institute of Systems and Control (DISC).

Information on courses of the past years.

• CWI Seminar Control and System Theory - 2010 Spring.
  Organization Jan H. van Schuppen.
• CWI Colloquium Control and System Theory - 2008 Fall.
  Organization Jan H. van Schuppen.
• VU Mathematics Seminar Analysis and Operator Theory,
  Organization Prof. A.C.M. Ran, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, VU University Amsterdam.
  

Functions at CWI: Senior researcher and leader of research group.
Function at VU University Amsterdam, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science: Full Professor and researcher. Present at VU on Fridays.

Editorial functions

• Editor-in-Chief of the journal Mathematics of Control, Signals, and Systems (Since 1 September 1994).

Past editorial functions

• Departmental Editor of Journal of Discrete Event Dynamic Systems. (1990 - 2000)
• Associate Editor-at-Large of the journal IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (1999 - 2001).

Past coordination functions

• Coordinator of European Research Network System Identification (ERNSI).
• Leader of the ERNSI team of The Netherlands.
• Chairman of Steering Committee of ERCIM Working Group Control and System Theory.