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Marcel Heertjes holds a Master's and a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Eindhoven University of Technology, obtained in 1995 and 1999, respectively. He began his professional career at Philips Centre Industrial Technology in 2000 and joined ASML in 2007, where he has taken on a role as a Principal Engineer and Control Competence Leader. His primary research interests lie in industrial control, particularly for high-precision mechatronic systems, with a specific focus on nonlinear control, feedforward learning control, and data-driven optimization techniques. He has been at the forefront of developing robust nonlinear control strategies and has contributed significantly to breaking the constraints of linear control design. His ambition is to provide a clear framework for robust nonlinear control design and stability analysis and has been involved in data-driven controller synthesis and tuning methods. Marcel has also served as a guest editor for the International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control and IFAC Mechatronics, and he is currently an associate editor for the latter since 2016.
ASML • Veldhoven, Netherlands
Leader in control competence and contributor to advanced control techniques in high-precision mechatronic applications.
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