Alessandro Papadopoulos

Professor

Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science

Building Room

alpapa@dtu.dk

Alessandro V. Papadopoulos is Professor of Computer Engineering at DTU Compute, Technical University of Denmark, and Visiting Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Mälardalen University (MDU), Sweden. He received his PhD from Politecnico di Milano, Italy, and subsequently held postdoctoral positions at Lund University, Sweden (2014–2016) and Politecnico di Milano (2016). He then joined Mälardalen University, where he was Assistant Professor (2016–2018), Associate Professor (2018–2022), and Full Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (2022–2026), also holding several academic leadership roles during this period. His work combines automatic control, computer engineering, and software-intensive systems, with a particular interest in methods that make complex computing systems more predictable, adaptive, resilient, and resource-efficient. He held a visiting position as a QUALIFICA Fellow at the University of Málaga, Spain (2023–2025), and was an ISA Visiting Professor at the Institute of Advanced Studies, Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna, Italy (2026). He has also served as Scientific Advisor to ABB AB, Industrial Automation (2020–2024), and to ZeroPoint Technologies AB (2024–2025).