About

I am associate professor of electrical power systems at the School of Engineering of the University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland. My research interests are planning, scheduling, and control paradigms for distributed energy resources, in particular energy storage, in power and energy networks. My objective is to understand how heterogeneous applications and different operators' objectives can be harmonized and coordinated to enable feasible techno-economic operations of future energy systems and a transition to renewable resources.

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In my free time, I like to spend time in mountains.

Recent news

• Nov 2024: I gave a talk on the needs for energy storage in distribution grids at the directors of the Swiss-Italian DSOs ... read more.
• Nov 2024: I gave a talk on the needs for energy storage in distribution grids at the directors of the Swiss-Italian DSOs. Thanks VSE/AES for the invitation!
• September 2024: I presented the experimental results of controlling power converters in settings with low inertia at the DynPo ... read more.
• September 2024: I presented the experimental results of controlling power converters in settings with low inertia at the DynPower 2024 event. Thanks Peter (Prof. Korba, ZHAW) and Rafael (Dr. Segundo, ZHAW) for the invitation!
• July 2024: I delivered the talk "Increasing energy storage capacity of hydropower plants: a perspective on quick ramping ... read more.
• July 2024: I delivered the talk "Increasing energy storage capacity of hydropower plants: a perspective on quick ramping rates" at the workshop "The role of storage capacity of hydropower plants" organized by the PEN@Hydropower association. Thanks Elena (Dr. Vagnoni, EPFL) for the invitation!.
• June 2024: Welcome, Plouton Grammatikos, in my group! ... read more.
• June 2024: Welcome, Plouton Grammatikos, in my group!
• May 2024: Welcome to visiting student Florent Gerbal from University of Poiter, working with me for his internship. ... read more.
• May 2024: Welcome to visiting student Florent Gerbal from University of Poiter, working with me for his internship.
• April 2024: Horizon 2020 project STOR-HY got funded! I will lead a work-package on ageing-aware control strategies for pum ... read more.
• April 2024: Horizon 2020 project STOR-HY got funded! I will lead a work-package on ageing-aware control strategies for pumped-storage hydropower to increase its flexibility.

Bio and research experience

Fabrizio got his bachelor's and master's degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Genova (Italy) in 2010 and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) in 2014 with a thesis on flexible demand for provision of ancillary services to the power grid. From 2014 to 2017, he was a postdoctoral researcher at EPFL (Switzerland), working on the integration of battery energy storage systems in the grid. In 2018, he was a guest scientist at NREL (USA), working on cooperative dispatch schemes for distribution grids, and, later, a researcher at ETHZ (Switzerland) with the Supply of Electricity program of the Swiss Competence Center for Energy Research. In 2019, he was appointed associate professor at École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris (Mines Paris – PSL, in France). Since 2022, Fabrizio has been an associate professor of power systems with HES-SO Valais – Wallis (Switzerland). In 2020, he co-founded ModBESS, a US-based startup that develops energy monitoring and management systems for residential and commercial microgrids. Working for among the world's most advanced laboratories and experimental facilities with great researchers and colleagues and helping energy systems operators to tackle their challenges shaped Fabrizio's research vision on the methodological barriers we need to tackle to achieve the energy transition.