Short bio

Henk van Waarde obtained the Ph.D. degree cum laude in Applied Mathematics from the University of Groningen in 2020. After his PhD, he held postdoctoral researcher positions at the University of Cambridge, UK, and at ETH Zurich, Switzerland. In 2022 he moved back to Groningen, where he is currently an Assistant Professor in the Bernoulli Institute for Mathematics, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence. He was also a visiting researcher at the University of Washington, Seattle in 2019-2020.

His research interests include data-driven control, system identification and identifiability, experiment design, kernel methods, energy-based learning, and networks of dynamical systems. Dr. van Waarde is a recipient of the 2021 IEEE Control Systems Letters Outstanding Paper Award and the 2025 SIAM Activity Group on Control and Systems Theory Prize. In 2026, he was awarded an ERC Starting Grant. He serves as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Control Systems Letters, and as an Editor of Mathematics of Control, Signals, and Systems.

Further interests

Besides science, I enjoy hiking in places like the Swiss Alps, the Washington Cascades and the Jostedalsbreen National Park in Norway. I am also passionate about classical music. Bach is my go-to composer for unmatched counterpoint and creativity. The quality recordings of the All of Bach project are highly recommended.