Dr.-Ing. Germano Schafaschek - Chair of Automatic Control

Germano Schafaschek, Dr.-Ing.

Department of Electrical-Electronic-Communication Engineering
Chair of Automatic Control (Prof. Dr.-Ing. Graichen)

Cauerstraße 7
91058 Erlangen

Fax number: +49 9131 85-28715
Email: germano.schafaschek@fau.de
Website: https://gschafaschek.github.io/

Research Interests

Modeling and control of discrete-event systems using tropical semirings (max-plus linear systems)
Supervisory control of discrete-event systems
Theory of formal languages, automata, Petri nets

Biography

Since June 2025: Research associate, Chair of Automatic Control, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
2023 — 2025: Research associate, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, Kaiserslautern
2016 — 2023: Research associate, Control Systems Group, TU Berlin
2012 — 2014: M.Sc. Automation and Systems Engineering, Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Brazil
2006 — 2012: B.Sc. Control and Automation Engineering, Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Brazil

Publications

For a list of publications, please refer to my personal homepage linked above.

Open theses

Control of Timed Discrete-Event Systems Based on Max-Plus Algebra

Current and completed theses