Wouter Jongeneel's webpage

A search for structure.

Hi, my name is Wout (01) and I am a postdoctoral researcher at KTH Stockholm and Digital Futures (02). I am broadly interested in the mathematical side of systems & control theory (03), in particular, I am fascinated by the synergy with topology and questions that arise in the context of synthetic biology. Feel free to reach out.

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Control theory

A hidden technology?

My research is centered around understanding if and how dynamical systems can be altered. As an achievement of our field, going to the moon stands out, but modern questions of great interest are for instance: "Can we reverse malignant tumour growth?" or "Can we reverse climate change?"

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Recent news.

July 2026: Paper accepted for CDC26, see you between the waves!
July 2026: Poster presentation at BioControl26 in Oxford, see you in September!
July 2026: 2 talks at ECC26 (one regarding p53 at the "Robustness, resilience, and early warnings in natural dynamical networks" workshop and one during the regular track on a generalization of the Hartman-Grobman theorem).
June 2026: Pitch on "Necessary conditions for feedback stabilization of nontrivial attractors" at the Feedback Control of Biomedical Systems workshop at Digital Futures.
May 2026: Talk in the SysCon Seminar Series of Emering Academics at Uppsala University.
May 2026: Presentation at the Digital Futures Open Research Day 2026.
April 2026: 2 papers accepted for IFAC WC 2026, see you in Korea!
March 2026: Abstract/poster accepted to the p53 workshop, see you in Canada!
March 2026: Paper accepted for ECC26, see you in Iceland!
March 2026: We have started posting explanatory texts for the NCCR Automation. Short blogpost below.
March 2026: We organized the DFYSC26. Short blogpost below.

"He had one big idea and ... that was the idea of relating many kinds of mathematical and scientific problems to the study of vector fields on manifolds and the properties of the related flows. That was his central theme and central mechanism."

Browder on Smale [p. 494, HMS93]
Apr. 02, 2026

DFYSC26.

On the 2026 Digital Futures Young Scientist Conference.

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Dec. 29, 2022

On "the art of the state" (repost).

In the last issue of the IEEE Control Systems Magazine, Prof. Sepulchre wrote an exhilarating short piece on the art of the state, or as he (also) puts it ``the definite victory of computation over modeling in science and engineering''. As someone with virtually no track record, I am happy to also shed my light on the matter.

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