Thomas Parisini#
| Membership Number: | 7518 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | ENGINEERING |
| Elected: | 2026 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/t.parisini |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-5396-9665 |
| Publication Link: | https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=tk2XuvYAAAAJ |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2010 - present Full Professor & Chair of Industrial Control, Imperial College London (United Kingdom)
- 2022 - present Head of Control and Power Research Group, Imperial College London (United Kingdom)
- 2024 - present Distinguished Professor, Aalborg University (Denmark)
- 2001 - present Adjunct Full Professor and Danieli Endowed Chair of Automation Engineering, University of Trieste (Italy)
- 2017 - present Deputy Director KIOS Research and Innovation Center of Excellence and Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Cyprus (Cyprus)
- 2024 - present Member of the Grand Challenges Panel, Innovation Fund Denmark (Denmark)
- 2021 - 2022 President of the IEEE Control Systems Society
- 2015 - 2022 Director of Research, Imperial College London (United Kingdom)
- 1998 - 2001 Associate Professor, Politecnico di Milano (Italy)
- 1995 - 1998 Assistant Professor, University of Trieste (Italy)
Fields of Scholarship
- Optimal control and estimation
- Approximation Theory
- Optimization
- Cyber-physical systems and cyber-security
- Metal and process control
- Fault diagnosis and fault-tolerant control
- Machine learning and Neural Networks
- Control theory
Honours and Awards
- 2023 Knighthood of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic for scientific achievements abroad
- 2025 IEEE Control Systems Society Transition to Practice Award (highest award of IEEE Control Systems Society for translation of research to real applications)
- 2024 Distinguished Professorship, Aalborg University (Denmark)
- 2018 Honorary Doctorate from University of Aalborg (Denmark)
- 2017 Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC)
- 2014 Outstanding Paper Award of the IFAC Journal of Process Control (Elsevier)
- 2011 Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)
- 2009 Distinguished Lecturer of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)
- 2008 Distinguished Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)
- 2014 Outstanding Paper Award of the IFAC Journal of Process Control (Elsevier)
- 2004 Outstanding Paper Award of the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks
