Experience

NHOA

• Italy
• Electric Power Transmission, Control, and Distribution
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Principal Power System Engineer

  • Jan 2023 - Present

  Acting as an interface between R&D and Engineering teams, I give my support for:- Identifiying new trends and requirements, to be presented at the Strategic Team and CTO Group, through monitoring of competitors, patents and scientific publications- Technical assessment of new opportunities and bids, acting in synergy with Heads of TechSale and BD Directors- Guiding customers and System R&D Team in the planning, execution and review of the most complex Grid Impact Studies to ensure grid code compliance and avoid execution delays

• System R&D Head

  • Feb 2018 - Dec 2022

  I contributed to the creation and growth of the System R&D, a team counting up to 7 FTE, active in: • Power Plant Controller product development, from competitor analyses and project specs to commissioning support from remote• Inverter and plant modelling for grid integration studies (LF, transient stability, converter stability, energizations, harmonics and protections)• Full transition to Model-Based-Design and automatic conversion of Simulink models to the target hardware platforms and PSCAD• C-HIL lab setup with Opal-RTSince 2017 I have been giving industrial lectures at Politecnico di Milano, Università di Bologna and Politecnico di Torino.Since 2017 to 2021 I held the position of industrial advisor of PRedictive OPtization Heading to the Energy Transition project with Politecnico di Milano (>1 M€).Since 2018 to 2020 I was Single Point Of Contact with ENGIE Research (Laborelec, Tractebel and CRIGEN) for Smart Grid related projects (HIL, Microgrid Controls and EMS)

• System Engineering Head (ad interim)

  • Sep 2017 - Feb 2018

  Project Engineer for Litoral BESS 21.6 MVA/12.2 MWh

• Senior System Engineer

  • Mar 2017 - Sep 2017

  • Development of an innovative battery enabled power quality solution for the mitigation of voltage sags and for intentional islanding of critical loads; • Technical support to the Business Development team;• Technical advisor in the definition of EPS technological roadmap.



ABB

• Switzerland
• Automation Machinery Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• R&D Engineer - PowerStore Specialist

  • Dec 2015 - Mar 2017

  Power System Modelling and Control Engineer for the development of coordinated controls of renewable/storage inverters. • Expert in power system consultancies for design, grid integration and post-sale diagnosis of utility scale PV plants and microgrids; • Application of Model-Based-Design approach for the development of new ABB PV plant controller. Application of Simulink PLC Coder toolbox. Validation through OPC interfaced DIgSILENT PowerFactory; • Development of DIgSILENT PowerFactory templates, either through DSL and Simulink compiled DLLs, for both EMT and RMS simulations. The modeling activities covered the ABB storage inverter and the ABB PV plant controller; • Patents, papers and grid codes reviewer for definition of new product specs.



ABB Product Group Solar

• Renewables & Environment
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Electrical Design Engineer - R&D Department

  • Jan 2014 - Nov 2015

  Power System Modeling Engineer supporting R&D and Technical Sale Teams in the daily and future integration of PhotoVoltaic Inverters in the electrical grids. • Development of a plant controller for "hybrid systems"; • Development of three phase PVI models portfolio in DIgSILENT and Simulink for power system studies and VDE-TR4 pre-compliance assessments (TRIO 20/27.6/50/60 and ULTRA); • Support Technical Sale Team and external power system consultants for the preparation and analyses of Grid Impact Studies for utility scale plants (involved in 9 projects for an overall installed capacity of 186 MW); • Industrial supervisor of 2 students enrolled with Aalborg University and Università degli Studi di Firenze; • Reviewer of grid codes and patents; • BU advisor in the collaborations with ABB Corporate Research Centers (main topics: inverter stability and controls). 4 patent applications



Aalborg University

• Denmark
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• PhD at Department of Energy Technology

  • May 2011 - Nov 2013

  Main contributions: • Analitycal design of grid following and forming control schemes for VSC based distributed generators; • Benchmarking of "frequency bias direct droop", "phase bias direct droop" and "reverse droop" inverter controls in islanded mode; • Hierarchical management of an intentionally islanded LV feeder in presence of dispatchable DGs (microturbines and BESSs); • Tuning of reactive power regulator of a Synchronous Generator, either through small signal analyses and time enabled optimization; • Development of a reduction method for Active Distribution Networks useful for voltage stability studies; • Supervision of 2 MSc students in their final thesis.



ENIPOWER MANTOVA S.P.A.

• Italy
• Oil and Gas
• 1 - 100 Employee

• BSc Internship

  • 2008 - 2008