I am Full Professor of Electrical Power Systems at the University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland in Valais, (HES-SO Valais-Wallis).

I research planning, scheduling, and control for energy storage and renewables in power grids, accounting for the diverse needs of operators, generators, and end-use consumers to achieve techno-economic operation and a transition to renewable energies. I lead the Gridlab at HES-SO Valais–Wallis, where 200 kW+ of experimental infrastructure enables realistic validation and technology transfer of our power-systems research. I teach at both the bachelor's, master's, and PhD level at HES-SO and EPFL.

In applied research, I work with companies in Valais, across Switzerland, and worldwide to help them adopt and integrate innovative power-systems technologies, including energy storage, distributed generation, and demand response.

For more information:
Curriculum Vitae | Publications page Google Scholar

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

Recent news

• 2026 September: Congratulations, Loan Fillettaz, on the successful defense of your bachelor's thesis on GIS visualization of l read more .
• 2026 September: Congratulations, Loan Fillettaz, on the successful defense of your bachelor's thesis on GIS visualization of load flow results. Keep up the great work and keep rocking!
• 2025 August: I gave the talk "Réseaux électriques : passé, présent et… futur ?" at the HES-SO student pitch challenge in Mo read more .
• 2025 August: I gave the talk "Réseaux électriques : passé, présent et… futur ?" at the HES-SO student pitch challenge in Monthey, Sion.
• 2025 August: Congratulations to Lorenzo Precht on the successful defense of his master’s thesis on reduced-scale modeling o read more .
• 2025 August: Congratulations to Lorenzo Precht on the successful defense of his master’s thesis on reduced-scale modeling of hydropower plants! Wishing you the best in your future endeavors.
• 2025 June: Glad to have hosted Chloe Voirol and Oscar Hellmuller in my lab, great job folks.
• 2025 May: Happy to host Fabrizio Sivori and Marcelo Cardenas, visiting PhD students from University of Genova.
• 2025 April: I gave a talk titled ‘Le rôle du stockage de l’énergie dans les réseaux électriques’ at the Carrefour de la Tr read more .
• 2025 April: I gave a talk titled ‘Le rôle du stockage de l’énergie dans les réseaux électriques’ at the Carrefour de la Transition event in Sion.

Short bio

I obtained my bachelor's and master's degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Genova (Italy) in 2010, and my 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, I was a postdoctoral researcher at EPFL (Switzerland), working on the integration of battery energy storage systems in the grid. In 2018, I 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, I was appointed associate professor at École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris (Mines Paris–PSL, in France). Since 2022, I am at HES-SO Valais–Wallis (Switzerland) as professor. In 2020, I co-founded ModBESS, a US-based startup developing energy management systems for microgrids.