About
Dr. Andrea Martinelli is a Lecturer and Postdoctoral Researcher at the Automatic Control Laboratory (IfA), ETH Zurich. He holds a PhD in Automatic Control from ETH Zurich (2024) under Prof. John Lygeros, an MSc in Control Engineering (2017) from Politecnico di Milano, and a BSc in Management Engineering (2015). His research focuses on optimal control, reinforcement learning, and decentralized control strategies for large-scale systems, emphasizing scalability and applicability to renewable energy systems. He received the ETH Medal for his doctoral thesis on data-driven control methods.
Education:
- BSc in Management Engineering, Politecnico di Milano (2015)
- MSc in Control Engineering with Honours, Politechnico di Milano (2017)
- PhD in Automatic Control, ETH Zurich (2024)
Research Interests:
- Optimal control and reinforcement learning
- Data-driven methods for control systems
- Decentralized control of interconnected systems
- Dissipativity theory and passivity-based approaches
- Applications in renewable energy systems (DC microgrids)
Teaching & Outreach:
- Program Manager for the CAS ETH in Automation
- Teaching a post-graduate course on automation in 2025
Professional Activities:
- Worked at Laboratoire d'Automatique (EPFL) during MSc thesis (2017)
- Research Assistant with Prof. R. Scattolini, Politecnico di Milano (2018)
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