Francesca Boem

Francesca Boem is a Lecturer at the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at University College London (UCL) and an Honorary Lecturer at Imperial College London's Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. She is affiliated with the Control and Power Research Group and the EU KIOS Research and Innovation Centre of Excellence. Her work focuses on scalable safety, security, and fault-tolerant control for large-scale systems, particularly in power networks and critical infrastructures.

Education:

• M.Sc. (cum laude) in Management Engineering, University of Trieste (2009)
• Ph.D. in Information Engineering, University of Trieste (2013)

Research & Professional Roles:

• Post-Doc, University of Trieste (2013–2014)
• Research Associate, Imperial College London (2014–2018)
• EU H2020-WIDESPREAD-TEAMING Project Team Member (2015–present)
• Associate Editor for IEEE Control System Society and EUCA Conference Editorial Boards
• Member of IFAC Technical Committee 6.4 (SAFEPROCESS)

Awards:

• Imperial College Research Fellowship (2018)

Grants & Collaborations:

• Key contributor to the EU-funded KIOS Centre of Excellence project (2015–present)

Labs/Teams:

• Control and Power Research Group at Imperial College
• KIOS Research and Innovation Centre (University of Cyprus & Imperial College)