Profile

Summary - more information can be found in my personal page: www.mattiamarinelli.eu

Mattia Marinelli (born 1983 in Genoa, Italy) holds a master degree in electrical engineering (2007) and a PhD degree in power systems (2011) from the University of Genoa, Italy. Since 2012, he has been working at the Technical University of Denmark, where he is associate professor in distributed energy resources. His research interests include power system integration studies, wind and solar data analysis, demand-side and electric vehicles management, and distributed energy resources modeling.

Mattia teaches two courses at master level on wind integration and distributed energy technologies and is involved in four research projects: EV4EU, focusing on developing and testing V2X strategies; H2020 Insulae, where is responsible for the demonstration activities on the island of Bornholm on technologies for energy decarbonization; Danish funded Topcharge, where a new innovative storage system for EV fast-charging buffering is being developed; Danish funded ACDC, where he is leading the development of a new autonomous electric vehicle smart charging technology.

Since May 2022, Mattia has been leading a section with 26 researchers focusing on e-mobility and prosumers integration.

Competences

• Electric vehicle technologies
• Battery energy systems
• Electric power distribution
• Wind and solar generation
• Power system operation and control
• Active distribution networks
• Prosumer technologies
• Hybrid power plants
• Energy management systems
• Electric vehicle charging management

Applications

Grid integrated electric vehicles; Smart and autonomous charging; Vehicle-to-grid; Fast-charging stations; Charging patterns; Hybrid power plants; Behind-the-meter applications; Electric vehicle battery degradation; EV clustering and control

Research involvement: currently working in 5 EU and national projects (previously involved in 21 research projects).

- FLOW (Internal project leader). Flexible energy systems Leveraging the Optimal integration of EVs deployment Wave. Horizon Europe project, which tests, validates and enhances user-centric V2X smart charging solutions and their orchestrated integration into energy grids that deliver flexibility assets to favour additional penetration of renewables and alleviate energy grid challenge.

Project scale 10 M€; Internal budget 0.5 M€; 07/2022 - 06/2026

- EV4EU (Internal project leader). Horizon Europe funded project, will propose and implement bottom-up and user-centric Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) management strategies creating the conditions for the mass deployment of electric vehicles. Project scale 9 M€; Internal budget 1.2 M€; 06/2022 - 11/2025

- INSULAE (Internal project leader and WP leader). H2020 (European) funded project, which aims at proving technologies for increasing renewables and energy independency in 3 demo-islands (including the island of Bornholm for which I am responsible). Project scale: 12 M€; Internal budget: 1.2 M€; 04/2019 – 11/2023. http://insulae-h2020.eu/

- ACDC - Autonomously Controlled Distributed Chargers (Project leader). EUDP (Danish) funded project, which will develop an electric vehicle autonomous smart charge controller to ensure the fulfillment of specific grid services. Project scale: 2.4 M€; Internal budget: 0.8 M€; 04/2020 - 09/2023. https://www.acdc-bornholm.eu/

- Topcharge (Internal projects leader). EUDP and IFD (Danish) funded projects. The goal of the TOPChargE project is to demonstrate and mature a next-generation high-power charger. The TOPChargE system is centered around a variable topology battery system allowing to store electricity and use it to charge electric vehicles directly from the battery. Project scale: 4 M€; Internal budget: 0.5 M€; 01/2020 - 12/2021 (EUDP); 07/2020 - 06/2023 (IFD). https://topcharge.eu/

PhD student supervision (ongoing):

- Xihai Cao, "V2X Management Strategies of EV Charging to Enhance Renewable Integration and System Stability," Ph.D. in E.E. connected to the EV4EU project, DTU, 11/2022 – 10/2025 (supervisors: M. Marinelli, C. Ziras)

- Anna Malkova, “Electric Vehicles Powered Hybrid Power Plants,” Alliance Ph.D. in E.E. with NTNU and connected to ACDC and EV4EU projects, DTU, 10/2022 – 09/2025 (supervisors: M. Marinelli, C. Træholt, M. Korpås)

- Mirko Ledro, “Offshore wind-Battery Energy Li-Ion Control Scheme,” Industrial D. in E.E. with Ørsted, DTU, 09/2022 – 08/2025 (supervisors: M. Marinelli, C. Træholt, M. Paludan, O. E. Idehen)

- Simone Striani, “Electric vehicle clustering methods for behind the meter services,” Ph.D. in E.E. connected to the ACDC and FUSE projects, DTU, 07/2021 – 06/2024 (supervisors: M. Marinelli, P. B. Andersen)

- Zoltan Mark Pinter, “Advanced Management and Control of Reconfigurable Battery Systems,” Ph.D. in E.E. connected to the Topcharge projects, DTU, 07/2021 – 06/2024 (supervisors: M. Marinelli, C. Træholt, G. Rohde)

- Tim Unterluggauer, "Urban Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure - Grid Impacts and Services," Ph.D. in E.E. connected to the FUSE project, DTU, 03/2021 – 02/2024 (supervisors: P. B. Andersen, J. Rich, M. Marinelli)

- Kristian Sevdari, “Control and clustering of autonomous electric vehicle chargers,” Ph.D. in E.E. connected to the ACDC project, DTU, 12/2020 – 11/2023 (supervisors: M. Marinelli, P. B. Andersen)

Teaching and education involvement:

- 46745 (Integration of wind power in the power system - former 31783). Main teacher and course responsible. Editions taught: 2014-2023. https://kurser.dtu.dk/course/2022-2023/46745

- 46740 (Distributed energy technologies modelling and control - former 31778). Main teacher and course responsible. Editions taught: 2017-2023. https://kurser.dtu.dk/course/2022-2023/46740

Membership and advisory roles:

- Study line responsible for the Electric Energy System track of the Sustainable Energy master.

- Co-organizer and scientific publication chair of the 4th Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference (ISGT Europe 2013): 450 participants; 558 extended abstract received; 254 full papers published.

- CINELDI (Centre for Intelligent Electricity Distribution @SINTEF) Scientific Committee member.

- UPEC (University Power Engineering Conference) Steering Committee member since 2017.

- IEEE Senior member since 2017 (member since 2010).

- IEEE Denmark Section, Power&Energy Chapter chair (01/2019-12/2020).

- Reviewer for IEEE PES Transactions and Elsevier Journals Applied Energy, EPSR, Energy and SEGAN.

Other information

- Co-organizer and scientific publication chair of the 4th Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference (ISGT Europe 2013): 450 participants; 558 extended abstract received; 254 full papers published.

- CINELDI (Centre for Intelligent Electricity Distribution @SINTEF) Scientific Committee member.

- UPEC (University Power Engineering Conference) Steering Committee member since 2017.

- IEEE Senior member since 2017 (member since 2010).

- IEEE Denmark Section, Power&Energy Chapter chair (01/2019-12/2020).

- EERA (European Energy Research Alliance) JP (Joint Programme) on SG (Smart Grids) – SP2 leader assistant.

- Reviewer for IEEE PES Transactions and Elsevier Journals Applied Energy, EPSR, Energy and SEGAN.

Visiting PhD Student in Eirgrid (Dublin) - PhD partnership

Period: May-September 2010

Power system studies done in the Irish network in a scenario with an high percentage of wind power: frequency stability with different level of wind penetration, analyzing the possible contribution to the system security by the provision of inertial response and primary power frequency control by wind turbines

Visiting Researcher in DTU Riso Campus (Roskilde) - DERri Project

Period: May 2011; November 2011; March 2012

Testing of control strategies of a microgrid formed by a Vanadium Storage and a wind turbine, both connected to and islanded from the main network. Validation of dynamic model of the Vanadium Storage model developed in the PhD thesis.

Research areas

Associate professor in distributed energy resources driven electric power systems at the Center for Electrical Power and Energy, based in the Risø Campus of the Technical University of Denmark.

My research interests include power system integration studies, wind and solar data analysis, electric vehicles, and distributed energy resources modeling.