Freelance profile: MPC / NMPC, advanced process control, soft sensors and optimization

At a glance

Availability

Available now

Day rate

€900 per day (net, plus VAT)

Work mode

Remote-first; on-site days in Germany and the EU by arrangement

Location

Kößlarn, Bavaria, Germany

Languages

Polish (native) · German, English, French, Spanish (C2)

Engagements

5-day Remote Diagnostic (€4,500 fixed) · advisory retainer from 5 days per month · project-based support

Industries

Process industry and chemicals · cryogenics · wind energy · machine building · airborne systems (AWES, parafoils, UAV)

Skills

Control

Model predictive control (MPC, NMPC, economic MPC) · advanced process control (APC) · feedback and feedforward design · controller architecture and requirements

Estimation

State estimation (Kalman filter, UKF, moving-horizon estimation) · soft sensors and virtual sensors · sensor fusion

Modelling and optimization

First-principles modelling · system identification · nonlinear and trajectory optimization · real-time optimization (RTO, DRTO) · digital twins for control

Tools

Python · MATLAB / Simulink · C / C++ · CasADi · acados · ACADO · Ipopt · Git · Siemens WinCC OA · UML / Enterprise Architect

Experience

1. 2024 – today
   Freelance R&D engineer — control, optimization and modelling

   Independent B2B support: diagnostics, advanced control, state estimation, optimization and technical reviews for difficult nonlinear systems.

2. 2020 – 2024
   SkySails Power GmbH, Hamburg — Developer Flight Automation

   Control systems for airborne wind energy: nonlinear optimization and optimal control, state estimators, identification and simulation, feedback control from requirements to validation, experimental flights.

3. 2017 – 2020
   IAV GmbH, Gifhorn — Development Engineer, control for wind turbines

   NMPC concept for a wind turbine (output-feedback economic NMPC), a tool for automated parameterization of NMPC-based controllers, extension of a nonlinear state estimator, requirements and architecture for a wind-turbine control solution, a diagnosis system; publicly funded research project.

4. 2015 – 2016
   evosoft GmbH (Siemens) — Developer SCADA WinCC OA

   Extension of Siemens SIMATIC WinCC OA functionality in an industrial-software context.

5. 2014 – 2015
   Soft-Sensor — entrepreneur and R&D engineer

   Nonlinear estimation for a data-fusion variometer for paragliding: first-principles modelling, data acquisition, experimental flights.

6. 2007 – 2013
   CERN / University of Valladolid / Osaka University — researcher, doctoral student, associate

   Output-feedback economic NMPC and moving-horizon estimation for the LHC superfluid-helium circuit; thermohydraulic modelling; proof-of-concept tests at CERN.

7. 2012 – 2015
   CERN — Official Guide

   Hundreds of lectures for visitors at particle-physics sites.

8. 2006
   ATENA Engineering GmbH — intern

   Hardware-in-the-loop simulation for the A400M turboprop engine (MATLAB / Simulink, dSPACE).

Education

• PhD in process and systems engineering, University of Valladolid (2015) — research at CERN
• Four MSc degrees in control engineering (joint programme, 2007): University of Valladolid, Grenoble INP, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Gdańsk University of Technology
• Technician in electronics

Proof

• Case studies: CERN, IAV, SkySails, sensor-fusion variometer →
• Publications (BibTeX) →

Contact

E-mail

rafal@noga.es

Phone

+49 175 617 6792

LinkedIn

linkedin.com/in/rnoga

Web

noga.es · predictive-control.com · soft-sensor.com

Profile updated September 2026.