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Named Technical Partner for European R&D Consortia

Senior control-engineering, state-estimation, and nonlinear-optimization expert available as named technical partner / scientific advisor for Eureka, Eurostars-3, Horizon Europe, and ZIM-international R&D proposals.

Available by arrangement.

Why include me on the consortium

Evaluators score consortium proposals on the credibility of the technical depth. A solo senior specialist with PhD-level publication record and production industrial experience in the relevant application domain raises the technical score of the proposal without adding the cost of extra staff positions or bureaucratic complexity to the consortium.

Pillars with proven experience:

Industrial process control

Cryogenic NMPC at the LHC — 8-year CERN affiliation (Researcher 2007–2013 + Official Guide 2012–2015, hundreds of public technical lectures); superfluid helium multiphase thermohydraulics; soft sensors and inferential measurement for next-generation industrial plants; APC / MPC retrofit work across steel, cement, pharma, chemicals, HVAC. SCADA / WinCC OA experience at evosoft (Siemens Corporate Research).

Mechatronics & utility-scale wind energy

Ex-IAV GmbH (Control Engineer for large wind turbines, 2017–2020). Multi-year work on the control of the world's largest wind turbines of their time (2017). Load-alleviation control, pitch and torque architecture, tower damping, wake interactions; Economic NMPC, state estimation, On-Board Diagnostics, functional architecture.

Aerial autonomous systems

Ex-Skysails Power GmbH (Developer Flight Automation, 2020–2024). Parafoil and AWES (Airborne Wind Energy Systems) guidance, navigation, and control; UAV trajectory optimization; nonlinear robust autopilot under wind disturbances; 3D trajectory optimization for tethered-drone systems.

Methodology toolbox

What evaluators verify.

  • Nonlinear problem formulation for robust optimization — the meta-skill that makes NMPC, trajectory optimization, sensitivity studies, and design optimization actually converge in production.
  • Dynamic systems modelling — first-principles, identification, reduced-order models.
  • Advanced control / MPC / NMPC / economic MPC.
  • State estimation — Kalman filter variants (linear, EKF, UKF), Moving Horizon Estimation, observer design.
  • Trajectory and path optimization — constrained dynamic optimization for guidance, motion planning, autonomous vehicles.
  • Sensitivity analysis — gradient-precise, repeatable across thousands of solver instances.
  • Implementation — MATLAB / Simulink, Python (NumPy, SciPy, CasADi, do-mpc, acados), C/C++ for embedded targets.

Programmes & funding pipeline

Programme Cycle Fit
Eurostars-3 Two cutoffs per year All three application pillars
Eureka Clusters — Eurogia, Celtic-Next, ITEA 4, Smart, Xecs Annual calls Mapped per pillar — see below
Horizon Europe — Clusters 4 & 5 Annual work programme Industrial process, energy, mobility
ZIM-Kooperation international Applications paused since July 2026; reopening expected in 2027 All three application pillars (DE + ≥1 foreign partner)

Cluster fit by pillar

  • Industrial process control / cryogenics → ITEA 4, Smart, Xecs (electronic components for big-science instrumentation).
  • Mechatronics / wind turbines → Eurogia (low-carbon energy), Smart (advanced manufacturing).
  • Aerial autonomous systems / AWES → Eurogia (AWES), Celtic-Next (autonomous-systems software).

Engagement shapes

Pre-award (proposal support)

Technical review of the work-package descriptions, co-authoring of the technical sections of the proposal, named CV in the proposal, signed letter of commitment. €900/day, typically 5–15 days. Paid by the consortium lead from its own budget.

Post-award (subcontractor on an awarded project)

Execution of a specific work package — modelling, controller / estimator design, prototype validation, project reporting. €40–100k/year, 24–36 months. Funded out of the project budget at standard project rates.

About the partner

Dr. Rafał Noga — PhD in Process and Systems Engineering (University of Valladolid; doctoral work at CERN and Osaka University). 4 × MSc in Control Engineering (Grenoble INP, Karlsruhe KIT, Gdańsk University of Technology). EU dual citizen (Polish + German), based in Germany; ZIM-eligible matched funding.

Past employment:

  • Skysails Power GmbH — Developer Flight Automation, 2020–2024 (control + 3D trajectory optimization for production AWES kite-power system).
  • IAV GmbH — Control Engineer for large wind turbines, 2017–2020 (Economic NMPC, state estimation, OBD, functional architecture).
  • evosoft GmbH (Siemens Corporate Research) — SCADA WinCC OA developer, 2015–2016.
  • CERN — Researcher / Doctoral Student / Associate 2007–2013 + Official Guide 2012–2015 (hundreds of public technical lectures across particle-physics sites).

Five-language C2 fluency (Polish native; German, English, French, Spanish at C2).

Right fit for your consortium?

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