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Erik Steur obtained his M.Sc. degree (cum laude) and Ph.D. degree from Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) in 2007 and 2011, respectively. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at TU/e, where he leads the Grip Complexity pillar at the Institute of Complex Molecular Systems (ICMS). Previously, he served as an Assistant Professor at Delft University of Technology from 2017 to 2019 and held postdoctoral research positions at TU/e from 2015 to 2017 and at KU Leuven from 2012 to 2015. His core expertise includes modeling and analyzing collective dynamics, with a specific focus on cluster synchronization and pattern generation in networked systems, as well as modeling reduction in chemical reaction networks. He has co-organized several international conferences and currently serves as an associate editor for Systems Control Letters and is a member of the advisory board for Communications Nonlinear Science Numerical Simulation.
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