Martina Vanelli

Martina Vanelli is a Research Fellow at the Mathematical Engineering department of the ICTEAM Institute at UCLouvain, Belgium, under Prof. Julien M. Hendrickx. She holds a B.Sc. and M.Sc. (with honors) in Applied Mathematics from Politecnico di Torino, Italy, and completed her Ph.D. there under Prof. Giacomo Como and Prof. Fabio Fagnani. Her research focuses on network and multi-agent systems, particularly in electricity markets and social/economic networks. She has been a visiting researcher at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, University of Passau, and Linköping University, delivering seminars on game-theoretic models in energy markets. Her work bridges network dynamics, control theory, and economic mechanisms, addressing challenges in market design and strategic behavior analysis.

Education:

• B.Sc. in Applied Mathematics, Politecnico di Torino (2017)
• M.Sc. in Applied Mathematics, Politecnico di Torino (2019)
• Ph.D. in Mathematical Sciences, Politecnico di Torino (2024)

Research Interests: Analysis and control of multi-agent systems, network coordination/anticoordination games, pay-as-bid auction mechanisms in electricity markets, and physics-informed data-driven control. Her work often intersects game theory, dynamical systems, and applied mathematics to address real-world challenges in socio-technical networks.

Recent Research Trends: Her publications emphasize competitive market mechanisms, equilibrium analysis in networked systems, and identifiability of nonlinear network dynamics. Recent contributions include analyzing pay-as-bid auction robustness, signed network coordination, and physics-informed control strategies without persistent excitation.

Labs/Teams: Active collaborations with the ICTEAM Institute at UCLouvain and the Division of Decision and Control Systems at KTH. Engaged in initiatives like the SMaILE-App project to enhance AI literacy through gamification.