Karl H. Johansson

Karl H. Johansson Short biography

Karl H. Johansson is Director of the ACCESS Linnaeus Centre and Professor at the School of Electrical Engineering, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. He is a Wallenberg Scholar and holds a Senior Researcher Position with the Swedish Research Council. He received MSc and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering in 1992 and 1997 from Lund University in Sweden. He has held visiting positions at UC Berkeley (1998-2000) and California Institute of Technology (2006-07). He is the Chair of the IFAC Technical Committee on Networked Systems since 2008. He has served on the IEEE Control Systems Society Board of Governors. He is on the editorial boards of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control and the IET Control Theory & Applications, and previously of Automatica. He was awarded an Individual Grant for the Advancement of Research Leaders from the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research in 2005. He received the triennial Young Author Prize from IFAC in 1996 and the Peccei Award from the International Institute of System Analysis, Austria, in 1993. He received Young Researcher Awards from Scania in 1996 and from Ericsson in 1998 and 1999.