Dr. Juan Limaco
Email • PhD in Mathematics, UFRJ
Control Theory, PDEs
Visiting Scientist
UFF, Fluminense Federal University (Brazil)
Host: Enrique Zuazua
Room 03.311 | FAU DCN-AvH, Chair for Dynamics, Control, Machine Learning and Numerics – Alexander von Humboldt Professorship
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät. Department Mathematik
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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 earned my PhD in Mathematics from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (1993).
Currently, I am a full professor at the Institute of Mathematics and Statistics of the Federal Fluminense University and holds a CNPq research productivity grant (1-D).
My experience in the field of Mathematics focuses on Partial Differential Equations and Control Theory.
I have supervised 12 master’s students and 11 doctoral students and since September 2020 I’m the coordinator of the online international “Seminar on PDEs and Applied Mathematics”, where renowned mathematicians from around the world give lectures.
From 2024, I’m the leader of the PDE Control Research Group at IME-UFF and coordinator of the Brazil-Germany PROBRAL CAPES-DAAD project “Control and numerical analysis of complex systems” between UFF, Federal Fluminense University and FAU, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (2024 – 2027).
Research interests
My research focuses on Control theory
Projects
• PROBRAL CAPES-DAAD: “Control and numerical analysis of complex systems”, between UFF, Federal Fluminense University and FAU, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (2024 – 2027)
Publications
2026
- Manghi J., Limaco J., Cipriano L., Queiroz–Souza P., & de Carvalho, P.P. (2026) Controllability, decay of solutions and numerical simulations for a quasi-linear equation, Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, Vol. 563 (2 Part 1)
- Limaco J, Barreira J.C., Silva S., & Yapu, L.P. (2026). Hierarchical null controllability of a degenerate parabolic equation with nonlocal coefficient
- Gamboa, A.S., Limaco J, & Yapu, L.P. (2026). Controllability of a system of non-autonomous degenerate coupled parabolic equations, Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, 130777
- Barreira J.C., Limaco J (2026). Local null controllability of the complete N-dimensional Ladyzhenskaya-Boussinesq model, arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.03876
- Gamboa, A.S., Limaco J, & Yapu, L.P. (2026). Nash-Stackelberg controllability for coupled systems of degenerate equations in non-cylindrical domains, arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.07582