Manfred Morari

Motivation for receiving the Nordic Process Control Award: 
For leadership in the area of process control for close to 30 years.
For pioneering several areas including robust control, model predictive control, plantwide control and, more lately, hybrid systems. Has also made seminal contributions in other areas, such as azeotropic distillation.

Short bio:
Manfred Morari was born in Graz, Austria on 13 May 1951. He received an MSc
in Chemical Engineering from ETH in Zurich in 1974 and a PhD in Chemical
Engineering from the University of Minnesota in 1977. He was with the
Department of Chemical Engineering at University of Wisconsin from 1977
untill 1983, when he joined the faculty of Caltech. During his 12 years
at Caltech he was the Executive Officer of both Chemical Engineering and
the Center for Dynamical Systems. Since 1994 he heads the Automatic
Control Laboratory at ETH in Zurich. During his career, Manfred Morari
has graduated close to 50 PhDs, many of which are currently active in
academia.