Nomination to Institut Universitaire de France (IUF) – 2024

I have the great honor of being appointed a senior member of IUF (Institut Universitaire de France – Fundamental Chair Laureate) for the term 2024-2029 by a decision of the French Minister responsible for higher education, Research and Innovation. See at here.

 

CNRS Innovation Medal – 2016
Honors, across all fields and subfields of research, exceptional research that led to striking technological, therapeutic, or social innovation.See here.

Since its establishment in 2011, I am the first researcher in the field of control engineering to have received this distinction. See (French): CNRS –U-Bordeaux.

Sans titre
French Minister of Research and Innovation (left), Ali Zolghadri, and Chairman-CEO of the CNRS (right), June 2016 - Paris

Award for excellence in Aerospace Research – 2010

Rewarded by the “French National Foundation for Research in Aeronautics and Space”.

Ali Zolghadri and the President of the French National Foundation for Research in Aeronautics and Space, May 2010 - Paris

Some others :

  • Some paper awards: Best theoretical paper award at IEEE CIFA conference, Bucharest (2008) –  Best application paper award at IFAC SAFEPROCESS 2015 conference – Outstanding Automatica reviewer …
  • “Visages des sciences” (amid the best 40 researchers in all disciplines – France, 2012) …
  • Who’s Who in France since 2017 / Who’s Who in the world
  • IEEE Senior Member grade (February 2021).
  • Many of my former PhD students received awards for excellent of their thesis…