Dr. Moritz Diehl

Biography

Moritz Diehl, born in Hamburg, Germany in 1971, studied physics and mathematics from 1993 to 1999 at Heidelberg University and Cambridge University. He received his Ph.D. degree from Heidelberg University in 2001, focusing on the Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing. From 2006 to 2013, he served as a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at KU Leuven University in Belgium, where he was the Principal Investigator at KU Leuven's Optimization Engineering Center (OPTEC). In 2013, he joined the University of Freiburg, Germany, where he heads the Systems Control Optimization Laboratory within the Department of Microsystems Engineering (IMTEK) and is affiliated with the Department of Mathematics. His research interests lie in optimization control, particularly in the development of numerical methods and their applications across engineering disciplines, with a specific focus on embedded renewable energy systems.

Research Interests