Hello, I am Associate Professor of electrical power systems at the University
of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland (HES-SO). I research planning, scheduling, and control paradigms
for energy storage and renewable generation in power and energy networks. My aim is to understand how heterogeneous
applications and different objectives of grid operators, produceres, end electricity consumers can be harmonized and
coordinated to enable feasible techno-economic operations of future power grids and a transition to renewable
sources.
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Curriculum Vitae
In my free time, I like to spend time in mountains.
Contact information
Prof. Fabrizio SossanHES-SO Valais - Wallis
23 Rue de l'industrie
1950 Sion, Switzerland
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Recent news
- 2024 November: I gave a talk on the needs for energy storage in distribution grids at the directors of the Swiss-Italian DSOs ... read more.
- 2024 September: I presented the experimental results of controlling power converters in settings with low inertia at the DynPo ... read more.
- 2024 July: I delivered the talk "Increasing energy storage capacity of hydropower plants: a perspective on quick ramping ... read more.
- 2024 June: Welcome, Plouton Grammatikos, in my group! ... read more.
- 2024 May: Welcome to visiting student Florent Gerbal from University of Poiter, working with me for his internship. ... read more.
- 2024 April: Horizon 2020 project STOR-HY got funded! I will lead a work-package on ageing-aware control strategies for pum ... read more.
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.