Angela Fontan

I am an Assistant Professor with the Department of Decision and Control Systems at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (DCS/EECS), KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. I am also affiliated with Digital Futures. Since March 11, 2024, I have been a WASP Fellow, funded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. My research interests are in the area of networked cyber-physical-human systems and nonlinear dynamics over networks, with applications to social networks, collective decision-making processes, and Live-in Laboratories.

I received a B.Sc. degree in Information Engineering in 2013 and an M.Sc. degree (with honor) in Automation Engineering in 2016, from the University of Padova, Italy. I received a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering with specialization in Automatic Control in September 2021, from the Division of Automatic Control, Department of Electrical Engineering, Linköping University, Sweden, where I was advised by Prof. Claudio Altafini.

From 2021 to 2024, I was a Postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Decision and Control Systems, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, working with Prof. Karl Henrik Johansson.

Research Group and Collaborators

Below is a list of current members of my research group and collaborators.

PhD Students

• Philipp Grünter, KTH & WASP, co-supervised with Prof. Karl H. Johansson

• Mahsa Farjadnia, KTH, co-supervised with Dr. Marco Molinari (main supervisor) and Prof. Karl H. Johansson

• Chen Song, KTH & NTU, co-supervised with Prof. Rong Su (NTU; main supervisor) and Prof. Karl H. Johansson

Postdoctoral researchers

• Martina Alutto, KTH & WASP, co-supervised with Prof. Karl H. Johansson

• Ezzat Elokda, KTH & WASP, co-supervised with Prof. Karl H. Johansson

• Ye Tian, KTH, co-supervised with Prof. Karl H. Johansson

• Anzhi Sheng, KTH, co-supervised with Asst. Prof. Silun Zhang

• Pelin Sekercioglu, KTH, co-supervised with Prof. Dimos Dimarogonas (main supervisor)

MSc Thesis Projects

If you are interested in MSc thesis opportunities, please contact me by email and include your CV and transcript of courses. Some currently available thesis projects are also listed on the KTH Degree Project Portal.

Projects

• 2026-2028: Nordic NNLL: The Nordic Network of Living Labs, funded by NordForsk

• 2027-2028: Societal Hypernetworked Autonomy in Populations via Evolutionary game dynamics (SHAPE), funded by Digital Futures, in collaboration with Asst Prof. Silun Zhang and Dr. Anzhi Sheng

• 2025-2026: Analysis and Synergy of Hyper-networked Autonomy at the Societal Scale, funded by Digital Futures, in collaboration with Asst Prof. Silun Zhang and Dr. Anzhi Sheng

• 2025-ongoing: AIDA-B: AI-driven predictive maintenance for buildings, an Einar Mattsson - KTH Industrial Collaboration Pilot Project

• 2025-ongoing: Social AI for food systems: Digital twins for resilient social well-being, a collaborative program between Digital Futures, Imperial-X, Stockholm City, and London City

• 2024-2027: DOCENT – Development of Occupant-centric Control for ENergy efficienT buildings, funded by the Swedish Energy Agency (Energimyndigheten), in collaboration with Dr. Marco Molinari