Eindhoven University of Technology

Nathan van de Wouw is a full professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands. Moroever, he holds a (part-time) full professor position at the Delft Center for Systems and Control, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands and an adjunct full professor position
at the Department of Civil, Environmental & Geo-Engineering, University of Minnesota, U.S.A.

Nathan van de Wouw's current research interest is in the field of "Dynamics and control of (nonlinear) mechanical systems" 
with a focus on, o.a., the following application fields:

• Manufacturing and energy exploration processes; in particular, the analysis and control of milling and drilling processes;

• Automotive mobility; in particular, highway traffic control;

• Mechatronics and robotics;

• Smart energy systems;

Pr. Van de Wouw is in charge of Ph.D. projects 1 and 2.

Eindhoven University of Technology

Research interests

• Numerical linear algebra, indefinite systems

• Model order reduction, reduced-order modeling

• Scientific Computing

• Discretisation techniques, boundary element method

• Singularly perturbed problems, exponential fitting, uniform methods

• Solution of nonlinear systems, nonlinear variable transformations

• Numerical methods for the simulation of semiconductor devices and electronic circuits

• Industrial mathematics via LIME: Laboratory for Industrial Mathematics Eindhoven

Wil Schilders is in charge of projects 1 and 2.

Kelda Drilling Controls

Chief Executive Officer

Comes from position as leader of dept. of Intelligent Drilling in Statoil R&D, and is currently Adjunct Associate Professor on adaptive control systems at Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). Has been responsible for Statoil’s research on managed pressure drilling (MPD) technology, and Hydro’s research on production optimisation. He has also been central in establishing NTNU’s research on pressure control for drilling. Background from Kongsberg Automotive as research manager and leading specialist control systems. M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering, and nonlinear control systems, respectively. Partner and full-time employee.

Glenn-Ole Kaasa is in charge of all three Ph.D. Projects.

MINES ParisTech, PSL Research University

Assistant Professor at the Centre Automatique et Systèmes (CAS) of MINES ParisTech, in France. His research interests include dynamic systems modeling, nonlinear control and estimation, distributed parameter systems, and various applications related to oil production. His current research focuses on boundary control and estimation of Partial Differential Equations, with applications to unstable oil wells and flowline risers, drillstring stick-slip oscillations, and UnderBalanced Drilling (UBD).

Florent Di Meglio is in charge of Ph.D. Project 3.