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  1. 2026
  2. Oct
    honourInducted as a Member of the Norwegian Academy of Young Researchers. link
  3. Aug
    awardIFAC Journal of Process Control Paper Prize, category Theory, for the triennium 2023–26. paper
  4. Jul
    awardOutstanding Student Paper Prize from the IEEE CSS TC on Process Control for Chris Orrico. paper
  5. Jun
    honourSelected for the Outstanding Academic Fellows Programme at NTNU. link
  6. Mar
    grantAwarded a FRIPRO Early Career Talent Grant from the Research Council of Norway. link
  7. 2025
  8. May
    careerStarted as an Associate Professor at the Department of Engineering Cybernetics, NTNU, while maintaining a 20% part-time Visiting Professorship at TU/e.
  9. 2024
  10. Dec
    awardOutstanding Student Paper Prize from the IEEE CSS TC on Energy Systems for Chris Orrico. paper
  11. Jul
    talkKeynote talk at IFAC ADCHEM, Toronto, Canada.
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  1. 2023
  2. Nov
    milestoneObtained University Teaching Qualification (UTQ) certification.
  3. Sep
    milestoneElevated to IEEE Senior Member grade.
  4. Aug
    grantReceived the prestigious VENI grant from NWO, a Dutch early career starting grant (success rate 11%).
  5. Jun
    awardReceived the EuroTech Future Award recognizing early career contributions to a more sustainable world. link
  6. Feb
    honourNamed one of the Outstanding Reviewers in 2022 for IEEE Control Systems Letters.
  7. 2022
  8. Nov
    grantReceived a EUROfusion Engineering Grant. link
  9. 2021
  10. Feb
    talkPaper “Optimal Resource Allocation using Distributed Feedback Real-time Optimization” accepted as a Keynote paper at IFAC ADCHEM 2021.
  11. Jan
    awardBest PhD Fellow Award from the Faculty of Natural Sciences at NTNU.
  12. 2020
  13. Oct
    awardRecognized with the prestigious Dimitris N. Chorafas Foundation Award for best PhD thesis (one of 35 worldwide). link
  14. Sep
    mediaArticle (in Norwegian) about my PhD award and my views on early career research appears in Universitetsavisa. link
  15. Sep
    awardReceived the Excellence in Computer Aided Process Engineering Award from the CAPE working party of the European Federation of Chemical Engineering (EFCE).
  16. Aug
    grantPeder Sather Research Grant awarded together with Prof. Ali Mesbah at UC Berkeley (USD 24k).
  17. 2019
  18. Nov
    milestoneSuccessfully defended PhD thesis entitled “Novel Approaches to Online Process Optimization under Uncertainty”. photo
  19. 2018
  20. Jul
    talkKeynote talk at IFAC ADCHEM 2018, held in Shenyang, China. pdfslides