Dr. Luis Yapu
Email • PhD in geometric mechanics, Universidade Federal Fluminense
Control theory, hierarchical and insensitizing controls of parabolic PDEs
Visiting Scientist (July – August 2026 | April – October, 2025)
Room 02.384 | FAU DCN-AvH, Chair for Dynamics, Control, Machine Learning and Numerics – Alexander von Humboldt Professorship
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät. Department Mathematik
I am a visiting scientist at FAU DCN-AvH, the Chair for Dynamics, Control, Machine Learning and Numerics – Alexander von Humboldt Professorship at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Bavaria (Germany).
I did my PhD in geometric mechanics from a poisson geometric approach and afterwards I started to study partial differential equations.
I am specially interested in control theory, hierarchical and insensitizing controls of parabolic PDEs.
With other colleagues I also study problems of scattering of some dispersive equations and I am also interested in semiclassical methods and its applications to physics.
My research interests include control theory, hierarchical and insensitizing controls of parabolic PDEs, dispersive equations and semiclassical methods and its applications to physics.
PhD Thesis: Luis P. Yapu. Hamiltonization of the nonholonomic system given by a homogeneous ball rolling on a convex surface of revolution, Universidade Federal Fluminense (2017)
Research interests
My research interests include
• control theory,
• hierarchical and insensitizing controls of parabolic PDEs,
• dispersive equations
• semiclassical methods and its applications to physics
Projects