Lino Guzzella, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Lino Guzzella

Professor of Thermotronics at and rector of Swiss Federal Institute of Technology

Date of Birth: 13-Oct-1957

Place of Birth: Zürich, canton of Zürich, Switzerland

Profession: engineer, university teacher

Nationality: Italy, Switzerland

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Lino Guzzella

  • Lino Guzzella, born in 1957, is a binational (Swiss and Italian) professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland.
  • He has been a full Professor of Thermotronics in the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering since 1999.
  • In his research, Lino Guzzella works on modelling and model-assisted optimisation and control of energy technology and mechatronic systems. Professor Guzzella's team designed the PAC-Car II, a hydrogen fuel cell vehicle that won the Energy Globe Award in November 2005.
  • According to the team's calculations, the car used the equivalent of one litre of petrol to travel 5385 km. His ultimate goal would be to create zero-emission cars, stating that the real challenge lies in reducing costs of hydrogen and developing its production from renewable sources. In 2006, Prof.
  • Guzzella appeared as a guest panellist, along with BT futurist Ian Pearson, space tourist Anousheh Ansari and renowned American astronaut Buzz Aldrin on the CNN Future Summit: World in Motion programme, presented by Richard Quest in Singapore.
  • The programme first aired on 23 November 2006 from Singapore. In December 2011, the ETH Zurich Professors' Conference elected Lino Guzzella as Rector to the ETH Executive Board, responsible for education, for a period of four years, starting on 1 August 2012.
  • From January 2015 he leads the ETH as its new president following Ralph Eichler.Prof.
  • Guzzella authored three books.
  • Two were published with Springer, namely, Modeling and Control of Internal Combustion Engine Systems with Christopher Onder and Vehicle Propulsion Systems with Antonio Sciarretta.
  • The third one, Analysis and Synthesis of Single-Input/Single-Output Control Systems, was published with vdf Hochschulverlag.

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