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I first came to Imperial to complete my undergraduate degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering<\/a> (EEE) back in 2006. I\u2019ve always had a special interest in mathematics, so once I got my first introduction to control engineering in my second year, I was smitten. I completed my PhD in nonlinear control with Professor Alessandro Astolfi<\/a> in EEE, and I am now a lecturer in the Department of Aeronautics<\/a>.<\/p>\n My job involves doing and supervising research on various topics in control engineering. We follow an abstract approach: we describe a system (any system!) with a mathematical model and develop systematic methods to design feedback to make the system behave in a desired manner. The abstract approach makes control engineering very powerful, which is why it is everywhere!<\/p>\n While I like my field for the maths, my team has recently also been given the opportunity to play around with robots, which is fun! In particular, my brilliant PhD students and I have a collection of robots on which we can experimentally validate the control methods we develop. In addition to this, I teach various modules related to control and numerical analysis to undergraduate and Master\u2019s students, and I also have some administrative roles in the department.<\/p>\n One of my favourite things about Imperial is the people. I have been lucky to meet amazing people since joining the College, and I value the international community here a lot.<\/p>\n I also like teaching \u2018Systems\u2019 as part of one of the second year modules. I essentially introduce our undergraduate students to concepts which are crucial in control engineering, and it\u2019s very rewarding and exciting when students show interest in my field!<\/p>\n Being Norwegian, I have a great love for the outdoors and I will search for any excuse to be on a mountain! I like to spend my time hiking, running, rock climbing and traveling \u2026 and I absolutely love snow \u2013 it\u2019s magical! \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “Being Norwegian, I have a great love for the outdoors and I will search for any excuse to be on a mountain! I like to spend my time hiking, running, rock climbing and traveling\u2026 and I absolutely love snow \u2013 it\u2019s magical!” \u00a0 I first came to Imperial to complete my undergraduate degree in Electrical […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1226,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[294815],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research-staff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":582,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions\/582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}