
Hector Miguel Ramirez Estay
Associate Professor
Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria
Valparaiso, Chile
Port-Hamiltonian systems, nonlinear control, passivity based control and distributed parameter systems.
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Control theory, UNIVERSITE CLAUDE BERNARD LYON I. Francia, 2012
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Electrical engineering science, UNIVERSIDAD DE CONCEPCION. Chile, 2012
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Electrical engineering science, UNIVERSIDAD DE CONCEPCION. Chile, 2009
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Electronic engineer, UNIVERSIDAD DE CONCEPCION. Chile, 2006
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Associate Professor Full Time
UNIVERSIDAD TECNICA FEDERICO SANTA MARIA
Valparaiso, Chile
2018 - A la fecha
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Maître de conférences Full Time
UNIVERSITE DE FRANCHE-COMTE (BESANCON)
Sciences et techniques
Besancon, Francia
2013 - 2018
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Postdoc Full Time
École nationale supérieure de mécanique et des microtechniques (Supmicrotech) / FEMTO-ST
Besancon, Francia
2012 - 2013
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Postdoc Full Time
École nationale supérieure de mécanique et des microtechniques (Supmicrotech)
Besancon, Francia
2012 - 2013
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Maître de conférences Full Time
Université de Franche-Comté (UFC-ST)
Besancon, Francia
2013 - 2018
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Associate Professor Full Time
Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria
Valparaiso, Chile
2018 - A la fecha
Local teaching responsibilities (UFC)
2013 - 2018 Responsible of the courses Modélisation des systèmes mécatroniques 1 and 2 for the Master Mécatronique, Microsystèmes et Electronique Embarquée (M2E2) of the UFC.
2013 - 2018 Responsible of the cours Automatique et Contrôle for Biomedical Engineering of the Institut Supérieur d'Ingénieurs de Franche-comté
2013 - 2018 Co-responsible of the cours Outils mathématiques pour l'ingénieur 3 for the Cursus Master en Ingénierie (CMI) Mécanique, électronique, automatique (EEA): Structures et Systèmes intelligentS (S-cube) of the UFC.
Local teaching responsibilities (UTFSM)
2024 – 2027 Member of the committee of strategic planning of the Department of Electronic Engineering of the UTFSM.
2023 - Responsible of the course Dinámica de sistemas for the Electronic Engineering postgraduate program of the UTFSM.
2023 Coordinator of the Automatic Control teaching area of the Department of Electronic Engineering of the UTFSM.
2019 - Responsible of the course Dinámica de sistemas for the Electronic Engineering postgraduate program of the UTFSM.
2018 - Responsible of the course Teoria de redes electricas 2 for Electronic Engineering of the UTFSM.
2022 – 2023 Member of the committee for the preparation of the national certification of the Electronic Engineering formation of the UTFSM.
2018 - 2023 Responsible of the course Seminario avanzado de control for the Electronic Engineering postgraduate program of the UTFSM.
PhD. students supervision
1. Ph.D. thesis. Javier Caballería. Control of Implict Port-Hamiltonian Systems on Lagrangian Submanifold. October 2023 – September 2027. UTFSM/UFC, Valparaiso, Chile/Besancon, France. Supervisors: Hector Ramirez and Yann Le Gorrec. Funding ANID (Chile)/ANR (France).
2. Ph.D. thesis. Cristobal Ponce. Modeling and shape control of two-dimensional plates: a port-Hamiltonian approach. April 2021 – December 2024. UTFSM/UFC, Valparaiso, Chile/Besancon, France. Supervisors: Hector Ramirez and Yann Le Gorrec. Funding ANID (Chile)/ANR (France).
3. Ph.D. thesis. Jesus Toledo. Observer based control of distributed port-Hamiltonian systems. November 2017 – Mai 2021. UFC/FEMTO-ST, Besançon France. Supervisors: Yann Le Gorrec and Hector Ramirez. Funding ANR (France).
4. Ph.D. thesis. Luis Mora. Robust and adaptive control of port-Hamiltonian systems. October 2017 – October 2020. UFC/USM/FEMTO-ST, Besançon France, Valparaiso Chile. Juan Yuz, Hector Ramirez and Yann Le Gorrec. Funding CONICYT (Chile) / Region Franche-Comté (France).
5. Ph.D. thesis. Vincent Trenchant. Smart boundary control of vibroacoustic and elastodynamic systems. November 2014 - November 2017. UFC/FEMTO-ST, Besançon France. Supervisors: Yann Le Gorrec and Hector Ramirez. Funding LABEX ACTION (France).
Master students supervision
1. Master thesis. Pablo Yañez. Modelado y control de proceso Electrodializador. UTFSM, Valparaiso, Chile. Supervisors: Hector Ramirez. Funding ANID (Chile).
2. Master thesis. Nicole Vignoli. PI Control of a Piezolectric Bending Microactuator for Precision Positioning Applications. August 2023 – February 2024. Università Di Bologna, Italy/UTFSM. Supervisors: Alessandro Macchelli and Hector Ramirez. Funding U. Bologna (Italy)/ANID (Chile).
3. Master thesis. Ignacio Diaz. A modular port based model and passivity based control approach for a class of piezoelectric actuators, January 2023 – October 2023. UTFSM, Valparaiso, Chile. Supervisor: Hector Ramirez. Funding ANID (Chile).
4. Master thesis. Javier Caballería. Modeling and Control of Piezoelectric Actuators: An Irreversible port-Hamiltonian approach, January 2021 – November 2021. UTFSM, Valparaiso, Chile. Supervisor: Hector Ramirez. Funding ANID (Chile).
5. Master thesis. Ignacio Villalobos. Passivity Based Control of Irreversible Port Hamiltonian System: An Energy Shaping Plus Damping Injection Approach, January – September 2020. USM, Valparaiso, Chile. Supervisor: Hector Ramirez. Funding ANID (Chile).
6. Master thesis. Andrea Mattioni. Port-Hamiltonian modeling and control of flexible structures, September 2016 – February 2017. U. Bologna/UFC/FEMTO-ST, Besançon France. Supervisors: Hector Ramirez and Yongxin Wu. Funding U. Bologna (Italy) / ANR (France).
7. Master thesis. Harizaka Rakotondratsimba. Port-Hamiltonian control of a 1-DOF micro-robotic systems, April – August 2014. UFC/FEMTO-ST, Besançon France. Supervisors: Hector Ramirez and Cedric Clevy. Funding UFC (France).
8. Master thesis. Yassine Fares. Modeling and distributed control of an acoustic process, December 2013 – April 2014. UFC/FEMTO-ST, Besançon France. Supervisors: Yann Le Gorrec and Hector Ramirez. Funding LABEX ACTION (France).
Non funded undergraduate and master projects supervision
1. Engineering final project. Brajhan Soto. Diseño De Controladores Pi Predictivos Generalizados Para Proceso Térmico Experimental. March 2024 – October 2024. UTFSM, Valparaiso, Chile. Supervisors: Hector Ramirez and Alejandro Rojas (UdeC).
2. Engineering final project. Javier Chacon. Modelado de olas en microcanal experimental. Agosto 2022 – August 2024. UTFSM, Valparaiso, Chile. Supervisors: Hector Ramirez (UTFSM), Marcelo Soto (UTFSM) and Alejandro Rojas (UdeC).
3. Engineering final project. Felipe Cruz. Modelado y Control de Inyección de Hidrógeno para Control de Combustión en Motor Diesel. March 2023 – Mars 2024. UTFSM, Valparaiso, Chile. Supervisors: Hector Ramirez and German Amador (UTFSM).
4. Engineering final project. Benjamin Salazar. Modelado de redes de distribución de agua potable. Agosto 2022 – Febrero 2023. UTFSM, Valparaiso, Chile. Supervisor: Hector Ramirez.
5. Engineering final project. Francisco Pereira. Modelado y Control de Sistemas Electro Mecánicos con Enfoque Hamiltoniano a Puerto. Mars 2020 – April 2021. USM, Valparaiso, Chile. Supervisor: Hector Ramirez.
6. Master scientific project. Hicham Touzani. LQ control of multi-physical systems. June – July 2017. FEMTO-ST. Hector Ramirez.
7. Engineering scientific project. Andrey Maslovskiy. Commande d'amortisseurs électro-réhologiques pour le ferroviaire. Mars – July 2017. ENSMM/FEMTO-ST, Besançon, France. Supervisors: Hector Ramirez and Yann Le Gorrec.
8. Engineering scientific project. Laurélène Rozet. Energy based modeling and control for non-contact micro-manipulation based on actuated flows. March – July 2017. ISIFC/FEMTO-ST, Besançon, France. Supervisor: Hector Ramirez.
9. Master scientific project. Yohan Breton. Contrôle robuste et adaptif de systèmes physique complexes. November 2016 – February 2017. UFC/FEMTO-ST, Besançon, France. Supervisor: Hector Ramirez.
Sabbatical periods
September 2017 – August 2018 To develop a research program on modeling and control of multi-physical systems, in particular of fluid-structure interaction systems, using the framework of port-Hamiltonian combined with tools from system identification and sample data models. An important part of the sabbatical period is developed in the department of Electronic Engineering of the Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María (9 months) co-financed by an CONICYT PCI MEC funding.
Participation in research projects
As director and project responsible
2024- Basal Project AFB240002. Advanced Center for Electrical and Electronic Engineering (AC3E), UTFSM (Chile). Director and Head of the research line on automatic control.
2023-2027 FONDECYT REGULAR 1231896. Irreversible port-Hamiltonian formulation and control of thermo-electro-mechanical systems defined on infinite dimensional spaces. UTFSM (Chile).
2023-2026 ECOS220040. Pseudo Hamiltonian numerical methods for modeling and control of thermo-mechanical 2D structures.
2020-2021 CONICYT REDES 190199. Boundary control of mechanical vibrations based on optical fiber sensing. UTFSM (Chile), the University of Bologna (Italy) and La Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna (Italy).
2019-2022 FONDECYT REGULAR 1191544. Hamiltonian methods for modeling and control of reversible-irreversible multi-physical systems. UTFSM (Chile).
2014-2015 UFC young research grant. Port-Hamiltonian control of a 1-DOF micro-robotic systems. UFC-ST and FEMTO-ST (France).
As principal investigator
2023-2024 Basal Project FB0008. Advanced Center for Electrical and Electronic Engineering (AC3E), UTFSM (Chile). Deputy Director and Head of the research line on automatic control. Project responsible: Matías Zañartu (UTFSM).
As associate investigator
2023-2027 FONDECYT REGULAR 1230777. Analysis and Design of Networked Process Control Systems. UdeC (Chile). Project responsible: Alejandro Rojas (UdeC).
2020-2022 Basal Project FB0008. Advanced Center for Electrical and Electronic Engineering (AC3E), USM (Chile). Project responsible: Matías Zañartu (UTFSM).
2017-2020 ANR-DFG INFIDHEM (ANR-DFG 2016 NLI). Interconnected infinite-dimensional systems for heterogeneous media. Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, Technische Universität München, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, (Germany), FEMTO-ST, LAGEP, ISAE-Supaero (France). Coordinators: Bernhard Maschke (LAGEP) and Birgit Jacob (Universität Wuppertal).
2017-2018 EXPLORATORIO I+D+i MACROFACULTAD DE INGENIERIA – Chile. Desarrollo de un controlador basado en energía de una máquina de reluctancia para aplicaciones de generación eólica de baja potencia. Universidad de la Frontera, Universidad del Bio-Bio, Universidad de Talca (Chile), FEMTO-ST (France). Coordinator: Roberto Moncada (Universidad de la Frontera).
2013-2015 ECOS-CONICYT C12E08, Modeling and stabilization of distributed port Hamiltonian systems: Application to micro and macro systems with thermodynamic phenomena. Universidad de Concepcion (Chile), LAGEP, FEMTO-ST (France). Coordinators: Yann Le Gorrec (France) and Daniel Sbarbaro (Chile).
2012-2014 ANR Blanc SIMI3 (ANR-11-BS03-0002) HAMECMOPSYS. Hamiltonian Methods for the control of multidomain distributed parameter systems. LAGEP, FEMTO-ST, ISAE and IECN (France). Coordinator: Yann Le Gorrec (FEMTO-ST).
As PhD./master student
2009-2010 CNRS-CONICYT 22791. Partial Stabilization of conservative contact system: Application to thermodynamic processes of irreversible reactions, Universidad de Concepcion (Chile) and LAGEP (France). Coordinators: Bernhard Maschke (LAGEP) and Daniel Sbarbaro (Universidad de Concepcion).
2009 ANR Technologie Logicielle 06-26-01 (TLOG06-26-01) PARADE. Parallel numerical Algorithms for Real time simulation of Algebraic Differential Equations systems, LAGEP, UCBL, INRIA and UBP (France). Coordinator: Damien Tromeur-Dervou (UCBL).
2008-2009 FONDECYT 1070491. Nonlinear controller design based on mass balance: Applications to hydraulic system. Universidad de Concepcion (Chile). Coordinator: Daniel Sbarbaro (UDEC).
Participation in industrial projects
2024- ICV SmartLoader (COD 23II003). Develop and validate solutions for forecasting failures in high-tonnage front loaders using advanced data analytics and a Holistic-Hybrid System-Level Prognostics (HH-SLP) models. Technological transfer project between ICV (Chile) and the AC3E. Coordinator: Marcos Orchard (AC3E).
2022 Aumento del Indicador de Carbono Neutralidad en Incinerador de Gases Residuales (COD 21EN026). Technological transfer project between Highly Innovative Fuels - HIF Chile (Chile) and the AC3E (Chile). Coordinator: Claudio Aguila (HIF Chile).
2021-2022 Electrónica de potencia pEDR (COD 19EN018). Technological transfer project between Arauco Bioforest (Chile) and the AC3E (Chile). Coordinator: Alvaro Gonzalez (Arauco Bioforest).
2016-2017 CdC-RD-MECHATRONIQUE. Etude Prospective des solutions mecatroniques a fort potentiel pour l’industrie ferroviaire. Alstom Le Creusot, FEMTO-ST (France). Coordinator: G. Ham-Livet (Alstom Le Creusot).
Invited professor stays
2023 Département d’automatique et systèmes micro-mécatroniques (AS2M), FEMTO-ST, Besancon, France. Invited by Prof. Yann Le Gorrec. 1 month.
2022 Dipartimento Di Ingegneria Dell'energia Elettrica E Dell'informazione "Guglielmo Marconi" (DEI), L'Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy. Invited by Prof. Alessandro Macchelli. 2 weeks.
2022 Département d’automatique et systèmes micro-mécatroniques (AS2M), FEMTO-ST, Besancon, France. Invited by Prof. Yann Le Gorrec. 2 weeks.
2019 Département d’automatique et systèmes micro-mécatroniques (AS2M), FEMTO-ST, Besancon, France. Invited by Prof. Yann Le Gorrec. 2 weeks.
2017 Department of Electrical Engineering of the Universidad de La Frontera, Temuco, Chile. Invited by Prof. Roberto Moncada. 1 week.
2017 Department of Electronic Engineering of the Universidad Santa María, Valparaiso, Chile. Invited by Prof. Juan Yuz. 2 weeks.
2016 ENTEG (ENgineering and TEchnology institute Groningen), Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands. Invited by Prof. Jacquelien Scherpen. 1 week.
2016 Department of Electrical Engineering of the Universidad de La Frontera, Temuco, Chile. Invited by Prof. Roberto Moncada. 1 week.
2016 Department of Electronic Engineering of the Universidad Santa María, Valparaiso, Chile. Invited by Prof. Juan Yuz. 2 weeks.
2015 Department of Electronic Engineering of the Universidad Santa María, Valparaiso, Chile. Invited by Prof. Juan Yuz. 2 weeks.
2015 Department of Electrical Engineering of the Universidad de Concepcion, Chile. Invited by Prof. Daniel Sbarbaro. 2 weeks.
2014 Department of Electronic Engineering of the Universidad Santa María, Valparaiso, Chile. Invited by Prof. Juan Yuz. 2 weeks.
Host of invited professors
2023 Prof. Laurent Lefevre (Prof. in Applied Mathematics and Automation), ESISAR - Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble, France. 1 month stay at the AC3E and the UTFSM. Funding by Chilean/French ECOS220040.
2023 Ass. Prof. Alessandro Macchelli (Ass. Prof. in Automation), University of Bologna, Italy. 1 month stay at the AC3E and the UTFSM. Funding by Chilean CONICYT REDES 190199.
2017 Ass. Prof. Lassi Paunonen (Ass. Prof. in Mathematics), Tampere University of Technology, Finland. Funding University of Franche Comté. 1 month.
2017 Prof. Hans Zwart (Prof. in Mathematics), University of Twente, The Netherlands. Funding U. de Twente. 1 week.
2017 Ass. Prof. Alessandro Macchelli (Ass. Prof. in Automation), University of Bologna, Italy. Funding U. Bologna. 1 week.
2015, Prof. Daniel Sbarbaro (Prof. in Automation), Universidad of Concepcion, Chile. Funding ECOS-Sud. 1 week.
2015 Prof. Hans Zwart (Prof. in Mathematics), University of Twente, The Netherlands. Funding University of Franche Comté. 1 month.
2015 Ass. Prof. Juan Yuz (Prof. in Automation), Universidad Santa María, Chile. Funding ENSMM. 1 month.
2014 Ass. Prof. Alessandro Macchelli (Ass. Prof. in Automation), University of Bologna, Italy. Funding ENSMM. 1 month.
2013 Prof. Hans Zwart (Prof. in Mathematics), University of Twente, The Netherlands. Funding ENSMM. 1 month.
Invited as speaker to conferences and workshops
1. Plenary speaker at the 4th Workshop on Stability and Control of Infinite-Dimensional Systems. University of Wuppertal, Germany, September 27 - 29, 2023. Title: Energy-shaping and entropy-assignment boundary control of the heat equation.
2. Speaker at the conference on Energy-Based Modeling, Simulation, and Control of Complex Constrained Multiphysical Systems. Centre International de Rencontres Mathématiques, CIRM, Luminy, Marseille, France, 18 - 22 April 2022. Title: Boundary Controlled Irreversible Port-Hamiltonian Systems.
3. Speaker at the Workshop “30 years of port-Hamiltonian systems & 60th anniversary of Bernhard Maschke”, October 14-15, as part of the 7th IFAC Workshop on Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Methods for Nonlinear Control, October 11-13, 2021, Berlin, Germany.
4. Speaker at the Workshop "On the occasion of Hans Zwart's 60th birthday" 25-26 October 2019, UParkhotel on the campus of the University of Twente, Netherlands.
5. Speaker at the 3rd IFAC/IEEE CSS Workshop on Control of Systems Governed by Partial Differential Equations CPDE and XI Workshop Control of Distributed Parameter Systems, CDPS 2019. Oaxaca, Mexico, May 20-24, 2019. Title: Some Recent Results on Boundary Control of Infinite Dimensional Port-Hamiltonian Systems on 1-D Spatial Domains.
6. Plenary speaker at the 1th AC3E Workshop on Automatic Control. Universidad Santa Maria, Valparaiso, Chile, 4th Jan 2017. Title: Control of non-isothermal chemical reaction networks using irreversible port-Hamiltonian systems.
7. Plenary speaker at the 1th Workshop on Energy Based Modeling, Simulation, and Control of Complex Physical Systems. Technische Universitt Berlin, April 7-8, 2016, Germany. Title: On the passivity based control of irreversible processes: a port-Hamiltonian approach.
Invited as speaker to summer schools
1. Modeling and control of thermodynamic systems. Spring School on Theory and Applications of Port-Hamiltonian Systems (PHS 2019). 31 March 2019 – 5 April 2019, Fraueninsel (Chiemsee), Bavaria, Germany.
2. Modelling and control of Irreversible port-Hamiltonian systems. Pre-workshop doctoral school of the 6th IFAC Workshop on Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Methods for Nonlinear Control (LHMNLC 2019). 30 April – 1 May 2018, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Valparaíso, Chile.
3. Introduction to port-Hamiltonian control systems. Postgraduate course at the Doctoral School of the University of Franche-Comté, Besançon, Edition 2015, 2016 and 2017.
4. Energy based modeling and control of multi-physical systems. Postgraduate course at the Doctoral School of the Universidad de la frontera, Temuco, Chile. 23 - 25 March, 2016.
5. Modeling and control of complex physical systems: the port-Hamiltonian approach. Postgraduate course at the Department of Electronic Engineering of the Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Valparaiso, Chile. 27 - 29 October, 2014.
6. Stability and stabilization of distributed port-Hamiltonian systems. Postgraduate mini-course in the frame of 21th International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems (MTNS 2014) hosted by the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, 7-11 July, 2014, with the support of the Dutch Institute of Systems and Control (DISC).
7. Energy based modeling and control of physical systems. Postgraduate course of the Summer School on Estimation and Control at the Department of Electronic Engineering of Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Valparaiso, Chile. 13 - 17 January, 2014.
International expertise upon request
2016-2017 Expert for the assessment of the Dutch-Flemish Accreditation Organisation (NVAO) for the accreditation of the departments of Industrial Management and Engineering, of the University of Groningen, Netherlands.
Member in Technical Committees
1. IEEE Control Systems Society Technical Committee on Distributed Parameter Systems (DSP). Since 2016.
2. (vice chair for social medias) IFAC Technical Committee on Distributed Parameter Systems (TC2.6). Since 2020.
3. IFAC Technical Committee on Non-linear Control Systems (TC2.3). Since 2015.
Editorial activities
1. Associate Editor for the 2025 American Control Conference (ACC) July 8-10, 2025, Denver, Colorado, USA.
2. Editor of the 8th IFAC Workshop on Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Methods for Nonlinear Control June 10-12, 2024, Besançon, France.
3. Associate Editor for the 2024 63rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) December 16-19, 2024, MiCo, Milan, Italy.
4. Associate Editor for the 2024 American Control Conference (ACC) July 8-12, 2024, Toronto, Canada.
5. Associate Editor for the 26th International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems (MTNS) August 19-23, 2024 , Cambridge, UK.
6. Associate Editor for the IFAC World Congress 2023 July 9-14, 2023, Yokohama, Japan.
7. Associate Editor for the 62nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) December 13-15, 2023, Marina Bay Sands, Singapore.
8. Associate Editor for the 2023 American Control Conference (ACC) May 31 - June 2, 2023, San Diego, CA, USA.
9. Associate Editor for the 25th International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems (MTNS) September 12-16, 2022, Bayreuth, Germany.
10. Associate Editor for the 4th IFAC Workshop on Control of Systems Governed by Partial Differential Equations (CPDE) September 7-9, 2022, Kiel, Germany.
11. Associate Editor for the 61st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) December 6-9, 2022, Cancun, Mexico.
12. Associate Editor for the American Control Conference (ACC) June 8-10, 2022, Atlanta, USA.
13. Associate Editor for the American Control Conference (ACC Virtual) June 1-2, 2022, Virtual Conference, EDT, USA.
14. Associate Editor for the 7th IFAC Workshop on Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Methods for Nonlinear Control (LHMNC) October 11-13, 2021, Berlin Germany.
15. Associate Editor for the Third IFAC Conference on Modelling, Identification and Control of Nonlinear Systems (MICNON) Sept 15-17, 2021, Virtual Conference, All Times UTC.
16. Associate Editor 60th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) December 13-17, 2021, Austin, USA.
17. Associate Editor for the American Control Conference (ACC) May 25-28, 2021, New Orleans, USA.
18. Associate Editor for the 59th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) December 14-18, 2020, Jeju Island, Republic of Korea.
19. Associate Editor for the American Control Conference July 1-3, 2020, Denver, CO, USA.
20. Co-Chair for the International Program Committee (IPC) of The 3rd IFAC Workshop on Thermodynamic Foundation on Mathematical Systems Theory (TFMST), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, July 3-5, 2019.
21. Editor for the 6th IFAC Workshop on Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Methods for Non Linear Control (LHMNC) Valparaiso, Chile, May 2-4, 2018.
22. Invited Editor for the The IMA Journal of Mathematical Control and Information on the special issue on "Recent trends on Lagrangian and Hamiltonian methods for non-linear and distributed parameter systems control". 2019 -2020.
23. Associate Editor for the 2nd Workshop on Control of Systems Governed by Partial Differential Equations (CPDE), Bertinoro, Italy, June 13-15.
24. Associate Editor for the 5th IFAC Workshop on Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Methods for Non Linear Control (LHMNC) Lyon, France, July 4-7, 2015.
Organization of conferences and international summer schools
2023 Co-organizer of the Open Invited Track Recent trends in modeling, simulation and control of Distributed Parameter Systems at the 22nd World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC World Congress 2023), Yokohama, JAPAN. 9 July – 14 July 2023.
2023 Co-organizer of the Open Invited Track Port-Hamiltonian systems in modeling, simulation and control at the 22nd World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC World Congress 2023), Yokohama, JAPAN. 9 July – 14 July 2023.
2018, 2017, 2015 Co-organiser and Speaker of the PHCS’ 2018, 2017, 2016 and 2015: Introduction to port-Hamiltonian control systems. Postgraduate course at the Doctoral School of the University of Bourgogne- Franche-Comté (14h EqTD), Besançon France.
2017 Co-organiser and Editor of the 6th IFAC Workshop on Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Methods for Non Linear Control (LHMNLC) Valparaiso, Chile, May 2-4, 2018.
2014 Co-organiser and Speaker of the UTFSM’ 2014: Modeling and control of complex physical systems: the port-Hamiltonian approach. Postgraduate course at the Department of Electronic Engineering of the Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María (17h EqTD), Valparaiso, Chile. 27 - 29 October 2014.
Member of National Research Groups (France)
1. Groupe de travail EDP ”Théorie et applications des systèmes à paramètres repartis” du GDR MACS. Since 2012.
2. DEMO 1 and WP5.3 du LABEX ACTION at FEMTO-ST. Since 2013.
Local scientific responsibilities (FEMTO-ST)
2017 – 2018 Member of the scientific council of the AS2M department of FEMTO-ST.
2013 – 2019 Responsible and animator of the scientific seminars and discussions of the CODE research group of the AS2M department of FEMTO-ST.
Participation in review committees
International peer reviewed journals (regular reviewer): Automatica, Systems & Control Letters, Journal of Process Control, IEEE Transaction on automatic control, IEEE Transactions on Circuit and Systems I and II, Mathematical and Computer Modelling of Dynamical Systems, International Journal of Control.
International peer reviewed conferences (regular reviewer): IFAC World Congress, IFAC Workshop on Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Methods for Non-linear Control (LHMNLC), IFAC Workshop on Thermodynamic Foundations of Mathematical Systems Theory (TFMST), American Control Conference (ACC), IFAC Symposium on Nonlinear Control Systems (NOLCOS), IFAC Workshop on Control of Systems Governed by Partial Differential Equations (CPDE), IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), SIAM Conference on Control and its Applications, International Conference on Mathematical Modelling (MATHMOD), International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems (MTNS).
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Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches
UNIVERSITE DE BOURGOGNE
Francia, 2019
Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches, University Bourgogne – Franche-Comté, France, December 2019.
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Distinguished Lecturer on Automation
UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI BOLOGNA
Italia, 2024
Invited as a Distinguished Lecturer on Automation at the University of Bologna, December, 2024 to deliver a public lecture entitled: Irreversible Port-Hamiltonian systems. A framework for the modeling and control of thermodynamic systems.
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Plenary speaker
BERGISCHE UNIVERSITAT WUPPERTAL
Alemania, 2023
Plenary speaker at the 4th Workshop on Stability and Control of Infinite-Dimensional Systems (SCINDIS 2023), University of Wuppertal, Germany, September 27 - 29, 2023. Title of the presentation: Energy-shaping and entropy-assignment boundary control of the heat equation
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CONICYT PCI Advanced Human Capital Attraction Program from Abroad, Short Stay Modality (MEC)
UNIVERSIDAD TECNICA FEDERICO SANTA MARIA
Chile, 2018
Sabbatical periods September 2017 – August 2018 To develop a research program on modeling and control of multi-physical systems, in particular of fluid-structure interaction systems, using the framework of port-Hamiltonian combined with tools from system identification and sample data models. An important part of the sabbatical period is developed in the department of Electronic Engineering of the Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María (9 months) co-financed by an CONICYT PCI MEC funding.
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CONICYT Grant for Doctoral Studies
UNIVERSIDAD DE CONCEPCION
Chile, 2009
CONICYT Grant for Doctoral Studies, 2009–2012, conducting to the - Ph.D. in Automatic Control, University Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France, March 2012. - Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering Sciences, University of Concepción, Chile, March 2012.
On the control of non-linear processes: An IDA-PBC approach (vol 19, pg 405, 2009) |
Boundary control of mechanical vibrations based on optical fiber sensing |
HAMILTONIAN METHODS FOR MODELING AND CONTROL OF REVERSIBLE-IRREVERSIBLE MULTI-PHYSICAL SYSTEMS |
Estimación de parámetros y métodos Hamiltonianos de control para sistemas multifisicos |
ANR-DFG INFIDHEM (ANR-DFG 2016 NLI). Interconnected infinite-dimensional systems for heterogeneous media |
Desarrollo de un controlador basado en energía de una máquina de reluctancia para aplicaciones de generación eólica de baja potencia |
H2020-MSCA-ITN-2017 ConFlex (MSCA-ITN-ETN 765579). Control of flexible structures and fluid-structure interactions. |
CdC-RD-MECHATRONIQUE=> Etude Prospective des solutions mecatroniques a fort potentiel pour l’industrie ferroviaire |
Port-Hamiltonian control of a 1-DOF micro-robotic systems. |
Modelling and stabilization of distributed port Hamiltonian systems=> Application to micro and macro systems with thermodynamic phenomena |
ANR Blanc SIMI3 (ANR-11-BS03-0002) HAMECMOPSYS=> Approche Hamiltonienne pour l'analyse et la commande des systèmes multiphysiques à paramètres distribués |
Partial Stabilization of conservative contact system=> Application to thermodynamic processes of irreversible reactions |
ANR Technologie Logicielle 06-26-01 (TLOG06-26-01), PARADE=> Parallel numerical Algorithms for Real time simulation of Algebraic Differential Equations systems |
MECESUP FSM0601 “Red Nacional de Doctorado en Ingenieria Eléctrica y Electrónica” |
NONLINEAR CONTROLLER DESIGN BASED ON MASS BALANCE=> APPLICATIONS TO HYDRAULIC SYSTEMS |
CONTROL ADAPTIVO DE SISTEMAS NO-LINEALES BASADO EN MODELOS NO-PARAMETRICOS |
Port-Hamiltonian formulations for the modeling, simulation and control of fluids |

Hector Ramirez
Associate Professor
Electronic Engineering
Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria
Valparaiso, Chile

Francisco Vargas
Assistant Professor
Electronic Engineering Department
UNIVERSIDAD TECNICA FEDERICO SANTA MARIA
Valparaiso, Chile

Alejandro ROJAS
Associate Professor
Ingeniería Eléctrica
Universidad de Concepción
Concepción, Chile