Alberto Isidori, obtained his degree in EE from the University of Rome in 1965. From 1975 to 2012, he has been Professor of Automatic Control at this University, where is currently Professor Emeritus. He has held visiting positions at various academic/research institutions which include the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the University of California at Berkeley, the ETH in Zurich and the NASA-Langley research center. Between 1989 and 2006 he has also been affiliated with Washington University in St. Louis.
His research interests are primarily in analysis and design of nonlinear control systems.
He is author of several books, among which the highly-cited "Nonlinear Control Systems"
(1985, 1989 and 1995) and the more recent "Lectures on Feedback Design of
Multivariable Systems" (2017). He published more than 130 articles on archival journals
and more than 200 conference papers. He is the recipient of various prestigious awards, which include the Quazza Medal of IFAC (in 1996), the Ktesibios Award (in 2000), the Bode Lecture Award from the Control Systems Society of IEEE (in 2001), the Honorary Doctorate from KTH of Sweden (in 2009), the Galileo Galilei Award from the Rotary Clubs of Italy (in 2009), the Control Systems Award of IEEE in 2012. In 2012 he was also elected corresponding member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. He is the recipient of awards for best papers published on the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control and on Automatica, twice on both journals. In 1986 he was elected Fellow of IEEE and in 2005 he was elected of IFAC. He has been President of IFAC in the triennium 2008-2011.