Any researcher from an institution affiliated with the NCCR Automation is eligible to supervise projects at REAL. Visit the NCCR Automation website to see the full list of people involved.

Claudia has a Dr. sc. in automatic control and almost a decade of experience working in industry.

The one thing she loves more than control systems are intriguing stories and good presentations. That is why she has started REAL.

Antonia joined the teaching team in spring 2026 after being a member of the spring 2025 researchers’ cohort at ETH. She is a doctoral researcher at ETH with Emilio Frazzoli’s group.

Cara was a member of our spring 2024 master students cohort, exploring how to coordinate multi-energy properties to enable reduced energy costs. Now she is a PhD student at IfA at ETH and has joined our REAL teaching team.

Jan joined REAL in its very first cohort as a master student. Now a PhD candidate at ETH’s Power Systems Laboratory, he remains engaged with the REAL community and enjoys sharing his experience with the next generation of students.

Menmeng is an NCCR Automation doctoral researcher at EPFL. She is interested in optimising global shipping networks without messing up your online orders.

Jakob is a doctoral researcher of NCCR Automation at EPFL. He knows what to do against serious cases of Mondays.

Buse is a doctoral researcher at EPFL at NCCR Automation. She is looking into solving hard problems faster through efficient sampling.

Nicolas is a doctoral researcher at EPFL at NCCR Automation. He likes to spice up established, safe approaches with new, creative ones.

Vishnu is a doctoral researcher at EPFL at NCCR Automation. He likes to make life simpler by breaking down new problems to known ones.

Vaibhav is a doctoral researcher at EPFL at NCCR Automation. He is looking into mass-producing reliable, high-performance systems.

Simone is a doctoral researcher at EPFL at NCCR Automation. He is working on providing safety guarantees in autonomous driving.

Pulkit leads the Grid2050 initiative at NCCR Automation, so your lights stay on in 2050.

Matteo is a doctoral researcher at ETH at NCCR Automation. He is studying how structured guidance influences the decision-making capabilities of autonomous systems.

Zhiyu is a doctoral researcher at ETH at NCCR Automation. He is studying the interaction between decision-makers and uncertain environments.

Marcell is a doctoral researcher at ETH at NCCR Automation. He is working on facilitating the modular design of online and adaptive control algorithms.

Fabian is a doctoral researcher at OST at NCCR Automation. He aims to prepare the electricity grid for large-scale integration of renewable energy.

Panagiotis is a doctoral researcher at ETH at NCCR Automation. He wants to balance studying and the joys of life. At least in theory.

Jonas is a doctoral researcher at ETH at NCCR Automation. He devises a game plan for the future of power grids.

Robert is a doctoral researcher at EPFL. He developed Geo-trax, a toolbox for extracting georeferenced vehicle trajectories from drone videos. 

Zak is a researcher with Inspire AG. He developed SIMBa, a high-accuracy system identification toolbox.

Matilde is an NCCR Automation alumna. She developed Madupite, a distributed solver for Markov Decision Processes.