SEC scholar 20 July – 28 August 2026
Pauline Kergus is a CNRS researcher at Laboratory on Plasma and Energy Conversion in Toulouse, France, since 2022. Her research interests are control, system theory, model order reduction, system identification and data-driven methods in general for modelling, control and analysis of systems, with a specific focus on electrical systems. She was previously a postdoctoral researcher at LTH (Lund, Sweden) in the Department of Automatic Control, where she worked on the modelling and control of district heating and cooling networks. Before that, she was a PhD student at ONERA, Toulouse (France), from 2016 to 2019, and she received her PhD in October 2019 from ISAE-SUPAERO, Toulouse, France. She obtained her engineering degree from Ecole Centrale de Lyon in 2016 after a year as an exchange student in UNICAMP (Brazil) at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer science (FEEC).
During her stay as a Summer Early Career grantee at KTH, at the Division of Decision and Control Systems, Pauline Kergus will work on enabling the Loewner framework, a method for modeling and reducing complex dynamical systems, to handle noisy real-world data. By integrating rank-adaptive matrix estimation through her colalboration with Alexandre Proutière, the aim is to combine the interpretability of physics-based models with the efficiency of data-driven methods, advancing hybrid approaches for engineering applications.
Contact: pauline.kergus@laplace.univ-tlse.fr
