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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.

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-merit score without adding FTE cost or bureaucratic complexity to the consortium.

Pillars with verifiable credentialed depth:

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 world's largest utility-scale wind turbine of its time (>2 MW class). 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 Rolling submission 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 WP descriptions, co-authoring of the technical-merit sections, 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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