Who I am
I grew up in Benin, where a single course in differential equations at the Institut de Mathématiques et de Sciences Physiques (IMSP) convinced me that every physical phenomenon speaks a hidden mathematical language, and that learning it was what I wanted to do with my life.
After my Master's at IMSP, supported by the CEA-SMA scholarship of the World Bank, where I wrote my thesis on the stabilization of the Korteweg–de Vries equation under the supervision of Prof. Jean-Michel Coron, I spent a research internship at the Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse (IMT), working on partial differential equations arising in fluid mechanics and on cascade systems. It was there that I first saw how the tools of analysis and control could reach into the actual behavior of coupled, distributed systems, and it confirmed the direction I wanted to take.
I went on to a second Master's in Mathematics Research and Innovation at Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse III, supported by the CIMI scholarship, and then to my PhD at LAAS-CNRS under the supervision of Lucie Baudouin and Sophie Tarbouriech, on event-triggered control of partial differential equations.
Today I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Technical University of Crete, supported by the European Research Council through the C-NORA project, where I design control strategies for infinite-dimensional systems in the presence of delays, quantization, and communication constraints. What I love most about this work is that it sits at the seam between pure mathematics and the messy reality of engineering: Lyapunov functionals, backstepping, and semigroup theory on one side, sensors and actuators on the other, and a real chance to make both speak to each other.
Beyond research, I try to give back to the communities that shaped me. I serve as Vice-President of Songo Éducation, a non-profit fostering educational partnerships between France and the Central African Republic, and as a board member of ASA (Association Sciences pour l'Afrique), a volunteer-run, fully online pan-African scientific community connecting researchers on the continent and in the diaspora through seminars, mentoring, and outreach.
Outside the lab, I am rarely far from a book; literature and philosophy have a way of asking the questions that mathematics can never quite answer. I have also grown to love rugby, thanks to the Cretan Gunners, who so warmly introduced me to the game.
Short biography
Florent Koudohode received two M.Sc. degrees in Fundamental Mathematics and Applications, from the Institut de Mathématiques et de Sciences Physiques (IMSP), Dangbo, Benin, in 2018, and from Université Toulouse III – Paul Sabatier, France, in 2020, where he also received the Ph.D. degree in Automatic Control in 2023, with research carried out at LAAS-CNRS. Since December 2023, he has been a Postdoctoral Researcher with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Greece, within the ERC Consolidator Grant C-NORA. From October 2026, he will join the Laboratoire des Signaux et Systèmes (L2S), CNRS, CentraleSupélec, Université Paris-Saclay, France, as a Postdoctoral Researcher. His research focuses on the analysis, control, and estimation of infinite-dimensional systems governed by partial differential equations, with emphasis on event-triggered control, predictor feedback, time-delay systems, quantization compensation, and observer design. He serves regularly as a reviewer for major journals and conferences in systems and control.
Curriculum Vitæ
An overview of my academic path, distinctions and current activities.
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2013–2018 IMSP, Benin
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2019–2020 Master, Toulouse
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2020–2023 PhD, LAAS-CNRS
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2023–2026 ERC postdoc, TU Crete
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2026–2027 Postdoc, L2S · CentraleSupélec
Academic Positions
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Oct 2026 – Sep 2027
Postdoctoral fellow L2S (CNRS, CentraleSupélec, Université Paris-Saclay), Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Dec 2023 – Sep 2026
Postdoctoral fellow Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece
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Oct 2020 – Oct 2023
Ph.D. candidate, Automatic Control Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse III, LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, France
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Feb 2019 – Jun 2020
Research Intern Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse (IMT), Toulouse, France
Education
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2019–2020
M.Sc., Mathematics Research and Innovation Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse III, France
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2016–2018
Research Master's Degree, Mathematics and Applications Institut de Mathématiques et de Sciences Physiques (IMSP), Dangbo, Benin
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2015–2016
B.Sc., Mathematics and Computer Science IMSP, Dangbo, Benin
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2013–2015
Preparatory Classes (Mathematics & Physics) IMSP, Dangbo, Benin
Funding & Distinctions
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2023–2026
ERC Consolidator Grant C-NORA (#101088147)
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2020–2023
PhD funding, École Doctorale Systèmes (EDsys)
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2020
CIMI Scholarship
- 2016
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2013
4th national rank, Benin BAC C
Research Interests
Skills & Tools
Scientific computing
- MATLAB
- Python (NumPy, SciPy, Matplotlib)
- Julia
- R
Methods
- Lyapunov & LMI methods
- Backstepping transformations
- Observer & predictor design
- Event-triggering rules
Writing & tools
- LaTeX, BibTeX
- Git
- HTML, CSS, JavaScript
- Linux / Unix workflow
Languages
- French, Native
- English, Strong working proficiency
- Greek, Basic
Editorial & review activities
Reviewer for Automatica, Systems & Control Letters, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE Control Systems Letters, International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, European Journal of Control, Asian Journal of Control, Journal of the Franklin Institute, SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, and IMA Journal of Mathematical Control and Information. Conference reviewer for the IEEE American Control Conference (ACC), IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), IEEE European Control Conference (ECC), and IFAC Conference on Control Applications of Optimization.