Paolo Mercorelli

Background

Paolo was born on May 25, 1963 in Matelica, Italy. Son of Fernando Mercorelli and Sestilia Sabbatini.

Education

Elementary and middle school Francesco Petrarca in Castiglione d´Orcia (Siena). High school Antonio da San Gallo in Montepulciano (Siena). Master of Electrical Engineering, University Florence, 1992. Doctor of Philosophy in Systems's Engineering, University Bologna, Bologna, 1998.

Career

Paolo Mercorelli (Member, IEEE) received his Ph.D. in Systems Engineering from the University of Bologna, Italy, in 1998. In 1997, he was a Visiting Researcher for one year with the Department of Mechanical and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. From 1998 to 2001, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher at Asea Brown Boveri Corporate Research, Germany, where his research resulted in three patents. During the same period, he was awarded a three-year fellowship under the Marie Curie Actions Research Fellowship Program, one of the most competitive and prestigious European funding schemes sponsored by the European Commission. From 2002 to 2005, he was a Senior Researcher at the Institute of Automation and Informatics, Germany, where he led the Control Group. From 2005 to 2011, he served as Associate Professor of Process Informatics at Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences, Germany. Since 2012, he has been Full Professor and Chair of Control and Drive Systems at the Institute for Production Technology and Systems, Leuphana University of Lueneburg, Germany. Since the winter semester 2017/2018, he has been International Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Institute of Automatic Control, Lodz University of Technology, Poland, where he has been responsible for several courses in the field of control of robotic systems. Since the winter semester 2024/2025, he has been Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Mathematics and Information Technology, Lublin University of Technology, Poland, where he has been responsible for courses in control theory. In the summer semester 2023, he was a Visiting Professor at Chandigarh University, India, where he taught a course on Control Systems. His current research interests include applications of Kalman filters, robotics, wavelets, geometric control, and sliding mode control. He has received numerous Best Paper Awards at international conferences, including IECON 2013, IECON 2014, CoDIT 2014, ICCC 2017, FedCSIS 2019, ACD 2019, ICCC 2020, ICSTCC 2023, IECON 2024, MMAR 2025, and ICCI 2025. He has delivered a total of fourteen plenary and keynote lectures at international conferences. From 2019 to 2025, he has been listed among the world’s top 2% scientists, included in both the career-long and single-year rankings, according to the Elsevier database and Stanford University (Ioannidis, J.; Boyack, K.; Baas, J., 2020, Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators, PLOS, October 16). Since 2019, he has been Editor-in-Chief of Transactions on Computer Research, an Open Access journal published by World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society. Since 2022, he has been Editor-in-Chief of the Section “Control Theory and Mechanics” in Mathematics, an Open Access journal published by MDPI.

Achievements

• Phylosophy Doctor in Systems's Engineering, Italy, 1998.

Works

• Leuphana University of Luneburg

  • https://www.leuphana.de/en/institutes/ipts/staff/paolo-mercorelli.html

Connections

Paolo married to Olena Romanivna Mul on 25 March in 1978. They have two children: Alessandra and Alessandro.

Father:

Fernando Mercorelli

Mother:

Sestilia Sabbatini

Spouse:

Olena Romanivna Mul

child:

Alessandra Mercorelli

child:

Alessandro Mercorelli