Mauricio Zapateiro
Dr Mauricio Zapateiro received his BSc in Electronics Engineering in 2005 from Universidad del Norte (Barranquilla, Colombia), and his PhD in Information Technology in 2009 from the University of Girona (Girona, Spain). In 2010, he joined the Department of Applied Mathematics III and the College of Industrial Engineering at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya-BarcelonaTECH (Barcelona, Spain) where he currently is a 'Juan de la Cierva” researcher. His main research interests are the control of complex systems involving nonlinearities, parametric uncertainties and unknown disturbances with applications to the active and semiactive control of vibrations in civil engineering structures, marine structures and mechanical systems such as vehicle suspensions. The contributions of his work have been published in over 25 journal papers and several conference talks.