UC San Diego Engineer Miroslav Krstic Named Fellow-Ambassador of CNRS
Krstic joins world leaders in their research fields as a Fellow-Ambassador with France’s national research organization.
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University of California San Diego engineer Miroslav Krstic has been named a 2025 Fellow-Ambassador of CNRS, the French National Centre for Scientific Research. He was recognized for his world-renowned work in automation and control engineering for nonlinear and adaptive systems.
Krstic is a Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering and Senior Associate Vice Chancellor for Research at UC San Diego.
In his research, Krstic explores nonlinear systems and how to control them. Nonlinear systems are often unpredictable and challenging to interpret because their outputs are not proportional to their inputs; in other words, a small change in the initial conditions may give a highly different end result. Krstic holds an endowed chair as the Daniel L. Alspach Professor of Dynamic Systems and Controls and is a co-author of 19 books in control theory. His research has benefited technologies from extreme ultraviolet (EUV) photolithography in chip manufacturing to arresting the landing jet aircraft on the newest, largest class of aircraft carriers, Gerald Ford.
CNRS extended the Fellow-Ambassador invitation to Krstic based on recommendations from one of its 10 scientific institutes, CNRS-Informatics. In return, Krstic has committed to spending at least one month per year giving lectures and collaborating in research in French laboratories over three years.
According to Krstic, France has been his second intellectual home for two decades.
“Quite a number of French control theorists, now professors at leading universities in France, got started on research during their stays at UC San Diego,” said Krstic. “They became conscious of their talent by working on the hardest problems I could suggest, some of them giving birth to new research subjects at an age where that was the only subject they knew. As a CNRS Fellow-Ambassador, I look forward to visiting them, working with their own students, and expanding other UC San Diego-CNRS/France collaborations, which have thus far resulted in about 60 papers in control theory’s most selective journals.”
He joins eight other international researchers in the 2025–2027 cohort, giving CNRS nearly 30 Fellow-Ambassadors since the program started in 2023.
"The top-level scientists that the CNRS has successfully attracted with this initiative clearly demonstrate the organisation's reputation and attractiveness at the international level," said Alain Schuhl, CNRS's Deputy CEO for Science, in a news release. "We hope our French communities will fully benefit from this opportunity to develop strong, long-term links with them to help structure their research.”
Krstic said that he is grateful to CNRS for this opportunity to strengthen ties with his French collaborators, as well as build new connections.
Check out the CNRS news release for a profile of all the new Fellow-Ambassadors.
Miroslav Krstic was named one of the 2025 Fellow-Ambassadors of CNRS. Photo credit: Faith Hawkins
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