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 of Mechatronics at the School of Engineering of The University of Newcastle. I am still associated with CDSC, where I lead industry research projects.  

Research Interests
- Energy-based modelling of system dynamics
- Estimation and system identification
- Constrained control systems
- Marine and aerospace vehicle control systems
- Robust autonomy of uninhabited vehicles

Professional Memberships
- Member Royal Institution of Naval Architects (MRINA)
- Member IEEE Control System Society.

Academic Services
- Member of The Norwegian Research Council College of Experts. Area: Marine Cybernetics.
- Member of Tech. Committee on Marine Systems,  Int. Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC)
- Member of the Editorial board, Proc. of IMechEng, Part M, Eng. for the Maritime Environment.
- 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.
- IPC member IFAC Conference on Manoeuvring and Control of Marine Craft. Brazil, 2009.
- IPC member IFAC Symposium on Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles. Italy, Sept. 2010.
- IPC member IFAC Conference on Control Applications in Marine systems. Germany, 2010.

Contact
School of Engineering, 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: 25 Feb 2010