Team > Prof. Dr. Lars Grüne

Research Interests

• My research interests lie in nonlinear systems and control theory, with a focus on numerical and optimisation-based methods. This includes, for instance, model predictive control, numerical and AI-based methods for Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman PDEs, and the long-time dynamics of nonlinear systems. I also work on applications of these methods in engineering, science and economy.
• Below you find a short CV and information about my editorial work for journals, book series and conferences. Please see the separate pages for publications and research projects.

Short CV

• April 2002 until today: Professor of Applied Mathematics, since August 2009 also Head of the Chair of Applied Mathematics within the Mathematical Institute of the Universität Bayreuth
• September 2015 until February 2016: Visiting Professor at the Schools of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Mathematical and Physical Sciences of the University of Newcastle, Australia
  
• March 2004 until April 2004: Guest Professor at the Centre de Recherche Viabilité, Jeux, Contrôle, Université Paris-Dauphine
  
• October 1997 until March 2002: Wissenschaftlicher Assistent ("scientific assistant"), since July 2001 also Privatdozent ("private lecturer") in the Numerics, Dynamics and Optimization Group at the Fachbereich Mathematik of the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt a.M.
  
• March 1998 until February 1999: DFG Forschungsstipendium ("DFG research grant ") for visiting the Dipartimento di Matematica "Guido Castelnouvo" at the Universita di Roma "Sapienza"
  
• January 1997 until September 1997: Postdoc Grant from the Graduiertenkolleg Nichtlineare Probleme in Analysis, Geometrie und Physik at the Universität Augsburg
  
• April 1994 until December 1996: Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter ("research assistant") at the Universität Augsburg, from April 1995 within the DFG-Schwerpunkt Ergodentheorie, Analysis und effiziente Simulation dynamischer Systeme. Within this project I wrote my PhD-Thesis supervised by Fritz Colonius
  

Further professional activities

• Prodekan ("Vice Dean") of the Faculty for Mathematics, Physics and Computer Science, Universität Bayreuth (since 2023)
• Chair of the Selection Committee for the IEEE CSS George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award for the Journal IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control from 2024 until 2026
• Chair of the Selection Committee for the Brockett-Willems Outstanding Paper Award for the Journal Systems & Control Letters in 2023
• Member of SIAM - Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (since 2013)
• Member of the IFAC TCs 2.3 "Non-Linear Control Systems", 2.4 "Optimal Control" and 2.6 "Distributed Parameter Systems" (first membership since 2012)
• Member of GAMM - Gesellschaft für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik (International Association of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics) (since 2006) and GAMM Representative at the Universität Bayreuth (since 2011). Member of the Managing Board of GAMM from 2011 until 2016
• Member of the GAMM Fachausschuss "Dynamics and Control" (since 2004)
• Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems, Magdeburg (2015-2022)
• Studiendekan ("Dean for study affairs") of the Faculty for Mathematics, Physics and Computer Science, Universität Bayreuth (2009-2012)

Awards

• Appointment as a SIAM Fellow in the Class of 2025
• Inaugural Brockett-Willems Outstanding Paper Award for the best paper in Systems & Control Letters published between 2014 and 2018. The award was given for the paper "On the relation between strict dissipativity and turnpike properties", co-authored by Lars Grüne and Matthias A. Müller (Leibniz University Hannover)
• Preis für gute Lehre 2012 ("excellence in teaching award"), awarded by the Minister for Research of the state of Bavaria
• Nomination for the Preis für gute Lehre 2005 ("excellence in teaching award"), by the student representatives of the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
• Universitätspreis ("University award") of the Universität Augsburg for the PhD-Thesis, 1997
  

Plenary and Semi-plenary Talks

• African Conference on Machine Learning, Optimization & Applications 2025, Kigali, Ruanda; Plenary talk
• GAMM Annual Meeting 2025, Poznań, Poland; Plenary talk
• Control Conference Africa 2024, Balaclava, Mauritius; Plenary talk
• 15th Viennese Conference on Optimal Control and Dynamic Games 2022, Vienna, Austria; Semi-plenary talk
• SIAM Conference on Control and Its Applications 2021, Spokane, Washington, USA (held virtually); Plenary talk
• OR 2015 --- International Conference on Operations Research, Vienna, Austria; Semi-plenary talk
• CONTROLO 2014 --- 11th Conference on Automatic Control, Porto, Portugal; Plenary talk
• NMPC 2012 --- IFAC Conference on Nonlinear Model Predictive Control, Noordwijkerhout, Netherlands; Plenary talk
• MTNS 2008 --- 18th International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA; Semi-plenary talk
• 6th International Conference on “Large-Scale Scientific Computations” 2007, Sozopol, Bulgaria; Plenary talk

Editorial Work

Journals and Book Series

• Mathematics of Control, Signals, and Systems (MCSS) (homepage, online version)
  Editor-in-Chief
• Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications (JOTA) (homepage, online version)
  Member of the Editorial Board
• Journal of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (ZAMM) (homepage, online version)
  Member of the Editorial Board
• Mathematical Control and Related Fields (MCRF) (homepage, online version)
  Member of the Editorial Board
• AIMS Book Series Random and Computational Dynamics
  Member of the Editorial Board
• IEEE Control Systems Letters (L-CSS) (homepage, online access via IEEE Xplore)
  Member of the Editorial Board (2017-2022)
• Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series A (DCDS-A)
  Guest editor of the special issue 35(2015), No. 9 on New Trends for Optimal Control and Sensitivity Analysis, together with Jean-Baptiste Caillau, Maria do Rosário de Pinho, Emmanuel Trelat and Hasnaa Zidani. Preface
• Journal of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (ZAMM)
  Guest editor of the special issue 94(2014), No. 4, on Control Theory for Digitally Networked Dynamical Systems with contributions from the DFG Priority Research Program 1305, together with Fritz Colonius. Title Page, at - Automatisierungstechnik
  Guest editor of the special issue 58(2010), No. 4, on Networked Control Systems with contributions from the DFG Priority Research Program 1305, together with Lothar Litz and Jan Lunze. Editorial (in German)
• Journal of Difference Equations and Applications (JDEA)
  Guest editor of the special issues 16(2010), No. 2 & 3 in honor of Peter E. Kloeden on the occasion of his 60th birthday, together with Tom s Caraballo. Editorial

Conferences and Workshops

• MTNS - International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems
  Member of the Steering Committee, since 2008
• Elgersburg Workshop on Mathematical Systems Theory
  Member of the Organizing Team, since 2016
• SIAM Conference on Control and Its Applications 2025 (CT25), Montreal, Québec, Canada
  Program Committee Chair
• 16th Viennese Conference on Optimal Control and Dynamic Games 2025, Vienna Austria
  Member of the Scientific Committee
• CoDIT 2025 - 11th International Conference on Control, Decision and Information Technologies, Split, Croatia
  Member of the International Program Committee
• NOLCOS 2025 - 13th IFAC Symposium on Nonlinear Control Systems, Reykjavik, Iceland
  Member of the International Program Committee
• MICNON 2024 - Fourth IFAC Conference on Modelling, Identification and Control of Nonlinear Systems, Lyon, France
  Member of the International Program Committee
• CDC2024 - 63rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Milano, Italy
  Member of the Organizing Committee, Vice-Program Chair for Invited Sessions
• MTNS 2024 - 26th International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems, Cambridge, UK, 2024
  Member of the Steering Committee
• NMPC 2024 - 8th IFAC IFAC Conference on Nonlinear Model Predictive Control, Kyoto, Japan, 2024
  Member of the International Program Committee
• LHMNC2024 - 8th IFAC Workshop on Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Methods for Non Linear Control, Besançon, France, 2024
  Member of the International Program Committee
• 22nd FAC World Congress, 2023, Yokohama, Japan
  Member of the International Program Committee, Technical Associate Editor
• NOLCOS 2022 - 12th IFAC Symposium on Nonlinear Control Systems, Canberra, Australia
  Member of the International Program Committee
• CDC2022 - 61st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Cancun, Mexico
  Member of the International Program Committee, Associate Editor-at-Large
• MTNS 2022 - 25th International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems, Bayreuth, Germany, 2022
  General Chair
• Workshop on the Approximation of Solutions of High-Dimensional PDEs with Deep Neural Networks within the DFG Priority Programme 2298 “Theoretical Foundations of Deep Learning”, Bayreuth, Germany, 2022
  Co-Organiser
• CDC2021 - 60th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Austin, Texas, USA
  Member of the International Program Committee
• MICNON 2021 - Third IFAC Conference on Modelling, Identification and Control of Nonlinear Systems, Tokyo, Japan
  Member of the International Program Committee
• Joint Workshop of the GAMM Activity Groups "Dynamics and Control Theory" and "Optimization with Partial Differential Equations", Bayreuth, Germany, 2021
  Co-Organiser
• Oberwolfach Mini-Workshop "Analysis of Data-driven Optimal Control", Oberwolfach, Germany, 2021
  Co-Organiser
• CDC2020 - 59th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Jeju Island, Republic of Korea
  Member of the International Program Committee
• 21st IFAC World Congress, Berlin, 2020
  Pre Conference Workshops Chair
• MTNS 2020 - 24th International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems, Cambridge, UK, 2020
  Member of the Steering Committee
• NOLCOS 2019, Vienna, Austria
  Member of the International Program Committee
• SIAM CT19 - SIAM Conference on Control and its Applications, Chengdu, China, 2019
  Member of the Program Committee
• American Control Conference, Philadelphia, PA, USA, 2019
  Member of the International Program Committee
• CPDE 2019 - 3rd IFAC Workshop on Control of Systems Governed by Partial Differential Equations, Oaxaca, Mexico, 2019
  Co-Chair of the International Program Committee
• MTNS 2018 - 23rd International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems, Hong Kong, 2018
  Member of the Steering Committee
• 14th Viennese Conference on Optimal Control and Dynamic Games, Vienna, Austria, 2018
  Member of the Scientific Committee
• NUMOC 2017 - Workshop on Numerical methods for optimal control problems: algorithms, analysis and applications, Rome, Italy, 2017
  Co-Organizer and member of the Scientific Committee
• NOLCOS 2016, Monterey, CA, USA
  Member of the International Program Committee and Area Chair for "Optimization-based Control and Applications"
• MTNS 2016 - 22nd International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems, Minneapolis, MN, USA, 2016
  Member of the Steering Committee
• ECC 2016 - European Control Conference, Aalborg, Denmark, 2016
  Member of the International Program Committee
• CPDE 2016 - 2nd IFAC Workshop on Control of Systems Governed by Partial Differential Equations, Bertinoro, Italy, 2016
  Member of the International Program Committee
• XXXIV Dynamics Days Europe, Bayreuth, 2014
  Member of the Organization Committee
• MTNS 2014 - 21st International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems, Groningen, Netherlands, 2014
  Member of the Steering Committee
• NetCo 2014 - New Trends in Optimal Control, Tours, France, 2014
  Member of the Scientific Committee
• OMPC2013 - SADCO Summer School and Workshop on Optimal and Model Predictive Control, Bayreuth, 2013
  Co-organizer
• CPDE 2013 - 1st IFAC Workshop on Control of Systems Modeled by Partial Differential Equations, Paris, France, 2013
  Member of the International Program Committee
• 4th IFAC Workshop on Distributed Estimation and Control in Networked Systems (NECSYS), Koblenz, 2013
  Member of the International Program Committee
• MTNS 2012 - 20th International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems, Melbourne, Australia, 2012
  Member of the Steering Committee
• NMPC'12 - IFAC Conference on Nonlinear Model Predictive Control 2012, Noordwijkerhout, Netherlands,
  Member of the Program Committee (as Plenary Speaker)
• Workshop of the GAMM Activity Group "Dynamics and Control", Bayreuth, 2011
  Local Organizer
• GAMM Annual Meeting 2011, Graz, Austria
  Member of the Program Committee
• Workshop "The Dynamics of Control", Irsee, 2010
  Co-organizer
• NOLCOS 2010, Bologna, Italy
  Member of the International Program Committee
• MTNS 2010 - 19th International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems, Budapest, Hungary, 2010
  Member of the Steering and Program Committee
• GAMM Annual Meeting 2010, Karlsruhe
  Member of the Program Committee
• DFG-SPP Workshop "Optimization Based Control and State Estimation for Decentralized and Networked Systems", Magdeburg, 2009
  Co-organizer
• DFG-SPP Workshop "Control with limited information", Bochum, 2009
  Co-organizer
• Wissenschaftliches Kolloquium zu Ehren von Prof. Lempio, Bayreuth, 2009
  Mitorganisator
• DFG-SPP Workshop "Set oriented numerics in control theory", Bayreuth, 2008
  Co-organizer and local organizer
• 6th International Conference on "Large-Scale Scientific Computations", Sozopol, Bulgaria, 2007
  Member of the Scientific Committee
• CDC-ECC 2005, Sevilla, Spain
  Associate Editor
• GAMM Workshop "Dynamics and Control", Bayreuth, 2005
  Local Organizer
• GAMM Annual Meeting 2005, Luxembourg
  Co-Chair for Section 2 "Stability and Control Theory"
• NOLCOS 2004, Stuttgart
  Area Chair for "Mathematical Systems Theory"
• 49. Internationales Wissenschaftliches Kolloquium, Ilmenau, 2004
  Member of the Programme Comittee
• Third NCN Workshop "Dynamics, Bifurcations and Control", Irsee, 2001
  Co-organizer and co-editor of the proceedings
• DANSE Workshop "Numerics of Nonautonomous Dynamical Systems", Mainz, 2000
  Local Co-organizer