Cristian Mahulea



Dep. of Computer Science and Systems Engineering
University of Zaragoza
Ada Byron Building, Office: D.2.20
María de Luna, 1
50018 Zaragoza, Spain
E-mail: cmahulea[at]unizar[dot]es
Phone: (+34) 976 762517

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Cristian Mahulea is a Full Professor (Catedrático de Universidad) at the University of Zaragoza (Spain), in the Department of Computer Science and Systems Engineering.

He received the Laurea and M.S. degrees in control engineering from the "Gheorghe Asachi" Technical University of Iasi (Romania), in 2001 and 2002, respectively, and Ph.D. degree in Systems Engineering from the University of Zaragoza (Spain) in 2007. He joined the University of Zaragoza in 2008 as Assistant Professor, becoming Full Professor in 2024. Between 2020 and 2024, he served as Chair of the Department of Computer Science and Systems Engineering. He was visiting professor at the University of Cagliari (Italy), Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering during nine months in 2008, 2010 and 2024.

His research interests include discrete event systems, hybrid systems, automated manufacturing, Petri nets, mobile robotics and healthcare systems. He co-authored, with Mihaela Matcovschi and Octavian Pastravanu the book Applications of Petri Nets in Studying Discrete Event Systems (Iasi, Romania, 2002), and, with Marius Kloetzer and Ramon Gonzalez, the book Path Planning of Cooperative Mobile Robots Using Discrete Event Models (Wiley-IEEE Press, January 2020). He was also the main developer of two MATLAB toolboxes: the Petri Net Toolbox for the simulation, analysis and synthesis of discrete-event systems modeled with discrete Petri nets and RMTool for path planning and motion control of mobile robots.

He has been a Visiting Researcher at the University of Sheffield (U.K.), University of Cagliari (Italy), Boston University (USA) and ENS Paris-Saclay (France).

Since 2023, he has been Co-Director, together with Prof. Jorge Júlvez, of the Cátedra Alimak Group, a joint initiative between the University of Zaragoza and Alimak Group. This Chair fosters research, innovation, and technology transfer in the fields of industrial automation, safety, and digitalization, with a focus on strengthening collaboration between academia and industry.

He is a Senior Member of IEEE.

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