Karin Nachbagauer

Karin Nachbagauer is a Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, affiliated with the Faculty for Engineering's Mechanical Engineering Department. She holds a Hans Fischer Fellowship at the TUM Institute for Advanced Study (since 2020). Her research focuses on multibody system dynamics, numerical mathematics, optimal control, and inverse dynamics, with applications in mechanical engineering and robotics.

She earned her PhD in Engineering Sciences (2012) and Diploma in Industrial Mathematics (2009) from Johannes Kepler University Linz. Notable awards include the 2020 Best Paper Award for optimal control research and 2019 Excellence in Teaching Award.

Her work emphasizes adjoint gradient methods for optimization problems, parameter identification in multibody systems, and time-optimal control applications. Current projects include the VRoboCoop initiative for human-robot collaboration and IOMMS for innovative optimization in multibody systems.

Publications span journals like Journal of Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics and Multibody System Dynamics, with over 80 peer-reviewed articles. She actively participates in international conferences and serves on editorial boards.