Dr. Petar Iordanov is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Limerick. From 1994 to 1999, Petar studied at the Technical University of Sofia, where he obtained his M.Eng. degree. In the course of his study, he specialised in Control Systems Engineering, and for his Master’s Thesis he examined the application of linear matrix inequalities in the design of robust control systems, in particular, the H_∞ optimisation problem. In 1999, he started as a full-time Ph.D. researcher at University of Limerick. Petar completed his Ph.D in 2003 with a dissertation entitled "Robust Analysis and Synthesis of Systems Subject to Parametric Uncertainty Using the Structured Singular Value". From 2003 to 2007, Petar worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Dynamics and Control Group, Department of Electronic Engineering, NUI Maynooth. During this period, he worked in the Modelling and Control strand of the SFI funded PlasMAC project (Plasma Formation, Measurement and Control), research collaboration between DCU, NUI Maynooth and industrial partners, such as, Intel and Lam Research. Between 2007 and 2009, Dr. Iordanov was employed at Dublin City University, where he conducted research on the assessment of renewable energy potential in urban areas. Since 2009 he has been with the Circuits and System Research Centre, University of Limerick, where his research focuses on modelling, robustness analysis and digital control of low-power switch mode power converters for a variety of commercial applications.

• Ph.D., UL, 2003.
• B.Eng., M.Eng., Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria, 1999.

• Iordanov P. and Halton M. (2012) “Discrete-time Modelling and Robust Analysis of a Buck Converter”, To be presented at the 7th IFAC Symposium on Robust Control Design (ROCOND’12), Aalborg-Denmark, June 2012.
• M. Halton, M. J. Hayes, P. Iordanov (2008), “State-space m-analysis for an experimental drive-by-wire vehicle”, International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, Vol.18 (2008), pp. 975-992, 2008.
• G. Bacelli, J. Ringwood, P. Iordanov (2007), “Impedance matching controller for an inductively coupled plasma chamber - L-type matching network automatic controller”, Proc. of the 4th Int. Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics, Signal Processing, Systems Modeling and Control, Angers, France, pp. 202-207, May 2007
• B. Keville, P. Iordanov, J. Ringwood, S. Doherty, R. Faulkner, F. Soberon, A. McCarter (2006), “On the modelling and closed loop control of an inductively coupled plasma chamber”, IFAC workshop on Advanced Process Control for Semiconductor Manufacturing, Singapore, pp. 56-61, December 2006.
• P. Iordanov, B. Keville, J. Ringwood, S. Doherty, R. Faulkner (2006),  “On the Closed-loop Control of an Argon Plasma Process”,  Proc. of  the 19th IET Irish Signals and Systems Conference IET ISSC 2006, Dublin, pp. 439-444, June 2006.
• M. Halton, M. J. Hayes, P. Iordanov (2005), "State-space µ-analysis for an experimental drive-by-wire vehicle", Proc. of IEEE CDC-ECC’05, Seville, pp. 7912-7917, December 2005.
• P. Iordanov, J. Ringwood, S. Doherty (2005), "Nonlinear Control Design for a Plasma Process", Proc. of IEEE ECC-CDC'05, pp. 2380-2385, Seville, December 2005.
• M. Halton, M. J. Hayes, P. Iordanov (2005), "Worst case analysis of a simple MIMO mass-spring-damper system", Proc. of the 16th  IFAC World Congress, Prague, June 2005.
• B. Keville, P. Iordanov, C. Gaman, S. Karkari, R. Faulkner (2007), “Model and measurement for an inductively coupled chamber with an internal antenna”, Workshop on Radio-Frequency Discharges, All Hallows College, Dublin, June 2007.
• R. Faulkner, P. Iordanov, B. Keville, M. Hopkins (2007), “Non-invasive estimation of ion flux for real-time closed loop control in an Ar ICP”, 34th IoP Annual Conference on Plasma Physics, Dublin, April 2007.
• R. Faulkner, M. Hopkins, B. Keville, P. Iordanov, S. Doherty, J. Ringwood (2006), “Real-time closed-loop control of  an Ar/O2 ICP plasma”, 59th Gaseous Electronics Conference, Columbus, Ohio, October 2006.
• B. Keville, P. Iordanov, D. Doherty, M. Hopkins, R. Faulkner (2005), “Model and Measurements for Closed Loop Control of an Inductively Coupled Plasma Source”, 58th Gaseous Electronics Conference, San Jose, California, October 2005.
• M. Hopkins, R. Faulkner, D. Doherty, P. Iordanov, B. Keville (2005), "Real Time Control of an Inductively Coupled Plasma Source", 6th  European AEC/APC, Dublin, April 2005.
• P. Iordanov, J. Ringwood and S. Doherty (2005), “Control problem classification for a plasma process", Proc. of the 16th  IFAC World, Congress, Prague, July 2005
• M. Halton, M. J. Hayes, P. Iordanov (2004), “Worst-case state-space mu-analysis for systems subject to real parametric uncertainty”, Proc. of the IEE International Conference on Control'04, Bath, UK, September 2004.
• M. Halton, M. J. Hayes, P. Iordanov (2004), “Robust Lanekeeping for an Experimental Drive-by-Wire Vehicle Using the Skewed Structured Singular Value”, Proc. of  the 17th IET Irish Signals and Systems Conference ISSC 2004, Queen’s University, Belfast, pp. 287-392, July 2004
• P. Iordanov, M. J. Hayes, M. Halton (2003), “On m- Analysis and Synthesis for Systems Subject to Real Uncertainty”, Proc. of European Control Conference ECC 2003, Cambridge, UK, pp. 420-425, September 2003.
• M. Halton, M. J. Hayes, P. Iordanov (2003), “On the Generation of Linear Fractional Transformations for Systems with Parametric Uncertainty”, Proc. of  the 16th Irish Signals and Systems Conference ISSC 2003, UL, Ireland, pp. 470-475, July 2003
• P. Iordanov, M. J. Hayes, M. Halton (2003), “MuExplorer, a new Graphical User Interface for MATLAB Based Robustness Analysis and Synthesis using the Structured Singular Value, m”, Proc. of  the 16th IET Irish Signals and Systems Conference (ISSC 2003), UL, Ireland, pp. 332-337, July 2003.
• P. Iordanov, M. J. Hayes (2002), “Robust Performance Analysis Tools for the Satisfaction of L1 Objectives using the Structured Singular Value”, Proc. of the 15th Irish Signals and Systems Conference (ISSC 2002), UCC, Ireland, pp. 27-32, June 2002.
• D. G. Bates, R. Kureemun, P. Iordanov, M. J. Hayes, I. Postlethwaite (2000), “Computation and Application of the Real Structured Singular Value”, Proc. of the 14th International Conference on Systems Engineering (ICSE 2000), Coventry, UK, pp. 60-66, September 2000.
• M. J. Hayes, P. Iordanov (2000), “On the conservatism of the structured singular value as a basis for the construction of a Robust Root Locus”, Proc. of the 13th Irish Signals and Systems Conference (ISSC 2000), UCD, Ireland, pp. 289-296, June 2000.