I am very pleased to announce and congratulate Zhi Zhang for successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled “Control of Coexisting Attractors in Nonsmooth Dynamical Systems”, subject to minor corrections. Zhi is the first PhD at the Applied Dynamics and Control Lab supervised by me along with Prof. Jan Sieber.

Zhi’s external examiner was Professor Ekaterina Pavlovskaia from the University of Aberdeen with the internal examiner, Dr Evangelos Papatheou and the independent chair, Dr Yulei Wu.

After his viva, Zhi will continue his work on dynamics and control of nonsmooth dynamical systems (from a micro-robot’s perspective) in my lab as a Postdoctoral Research Associate funded by EPSRC Mathematical Sciences.