Riccardo M.G. Ferrari

Hi, my name is Riccardo, and I investigate how to make dynamical systems safe and resilient against faults, malicious cyber-attacks and degradation phenomena, fighting uncertainty while doing so. My research is applied to problems in wind energy, in the aerospace and in the automotive sectors, in particular for electric and for cooperative automous vehicles.

I took an unusual career path: after a PhD in Information Engineering from the University of Trieste, under the guidance of Prof. Thomas Parisini (Imperial College London and Univ. of Trieste) and of Prof. Marios Polycarpou (Univ. of Cyprus) , I spent 7 years in industrial R&D at Danieli Automation. There I specialized in instrumentation and automation solutions for process control in the steelmaking sector, at researcher and executive manager level. After that I joined DCSC as a Postdoc in the group of Prof. Robert Babuska, and later as an Asst. Prof. in the group of Prof. Jan-Willem van Wingerden.

I acknowledge funding from the EU via the H2020 program (Marie Sklowdowska-Curie Actions and Secure, clean and efficient energy work programme) and the Horizon Europe; from AB Volvo; from NWO (TKI-HTSM); from Vestas Wind Systems A/S; from The Research Council of Norway and from TU Delft (Cohesie program).