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BIOGRAPHY

Alessandro Astolfi was born in Rome, Italy, in 1967. He graduated in elec-
trical engineering from the University of Rome in 1991. In 1992, he joined
ETH-Zurich where he obtained an M.Sc. in information theory in 1995 and
the Ph.D. degree with Medal of Honour in 1995 with a thesis on discontinuous
stabilization of nonholonomic systems. In 1996 he was awarded a PhD from
the University of Rome for his work on nonlinear robust control.
Since 1996, he has been with the Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Department of Imperial College, London (UK), where he is currently professor

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