Career Summary
I completed my Electronic Engineering degree at the National University of Rosario, Argentina.  I moved to Australia in 1999, and in 2003 completed my doctorate in the area of Control Engineering at The University of Newcastle. In Nov 2003, I took a 6-month research position at the Mechatronics Research Centre, University of Wales, Newport, United Kingdom; where I worked on control and fault detection of thrusters for underwater vehicles in collaboration with Seaeye Marine Ltd (now Saab Seaye Ltd). From Jun 2004 to Jul 2007, I was a senior researcher at the Centre for Ships and Ocean Structures (CeSOS) and a Lecturer in Marine and Computer Control Systems at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). From Oct 2007 to Feb 2010, I was a research academic and industry liaison officer at the ARC Centre for Complex Dynamic Systems and Control (CDSC), The University of Newcastle, Australia. In 2008, I was appointed Adjunct Associate Professor of Ship Dynamics at the Centre for Ships and Ocean Structures (CeSOS)-(NTNU), Norway. In 2009, I started Advanced Control & System Dynamics (www.ac-sd.com), a company within the university that provides research and consultancy services to industry. In 2010, I was appointed Associate Professor and leader of the mechatronics program at the School of Engineering of The University of Newcastle. 

Research Interests
- Energy-based modelling and control of system dynamics
- Estimation and system identification
- Energy harvesting
- Mobile robotics in marine and aerospace applications
- Robotics in automated manufacturing

Professional Memberships
- Member IEEE Control System Society.

Current Services
- Member Engineers Australia National Panel for Mechatronics
- Member Norwegian Research Council College of Experts. Area: Cybernetics.
- Member Tech. Committee on Marine Systems,  Int. Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC)
- Member Prog. Committee Australian Control Conference (Melbourne, Nov 2011)

Past Services
- Editorial board, Proc. of IMechEng, Part M, Eng. for the Maritime Environment (2008-2010).
- IPC member IFAC Symposium on Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles. Italy, Sept. 2010.
- IPC member IFAC Conference on Control Applications in Marine systems. Germany, 2010.
- IPC member IFAC Conference on Manoeuvring and Control of Marine Craft. Brazil, 2009.
- IPC member IFAC Conference on Control Applications in Marine systems. Bol, Croatia, 2007.
- IPC member IFAC Conference on Manoeuvring and Control of Marine Craft. Portugal, 2006.

Contact
School of Engineering, Mechanical and Mechatronics
The University of Newcastle
Callaghan, NSW 2308, AUSTRALIA

Room ES 412

T  +61 (2) 4921 6779

F  +61 (2) 4921 6946 
Email: Tristan.Perez@newcastle.edu.au   

Last updated: 14 March 2011