Matteo Rubagotti completed his PhD in Electronics, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering (track in Automatic Control) at the University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy, in 2010. Previously to his post at Nazarbayev University, he was a lecturer at the University of Leicester, Leicester, UK, and a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Trento, Trento, Italy, and at IMT Institute for Advanced Studies, Lucca, Italy. He also spent visiting periods at the Center for Automotive Research of The Ohio State University, OH, USA, and at the Automatic Control Lab, ETH Zurich, Zurich Switzerland.

Dr Rubagotti has been Subject Editor of the International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control since 2020, and Associate Editor for the Conference on Decision and Control (since 2013), the American Control Conference (since 2013) and the European Control Conference (since 2018).

His research interests include model predictive control, sliding mode control, and the application of control and optimization algorithms to solve research problems in robotics (variable-impedance-actuated robots, parallel manipulators, tensegrity robots, and physical human-robot interaction).

At Nazarbayev University, Dr Rubagotti has been teaching a number of courses at undergraduate and graduate level in the fields of signal processing, applied mechanics, system dynamics, linear control theory, optimal control and robot motion planning.