Alessandro Zoccaمشاهده پروفایل
استادیار
Alessandro Zocca is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam , where he has been since 2019. His research sits at the intersection of applied probability , reinforcement learning , and network optimization , with primary applications in power systems resilience against climate-driven uncertainties. Education: PhD in Mathematics (2015, Eindhoven University of Technology), Postdoctoral work at Caltech (2017-2019) and CWI Amsterdam (2016-2017) Key Research Themes: Stochastic dynamics on networks, climate crisis impact on infrastructure, optimization under uncertainty Awards: Applied Probability Trust award (2015), NWO Rubicon grant (2017) His recent work focuses on reinforcement learning for grid topology control, two-stage stochastic programming for exponential constraint handling, and Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods for rare-event analysis. He actively supervises five PhD students on topics ranging from weather-driven grid failures to stochastic frequency reserve optimization . Co-author of the textbook Hands-On Mathematical Optimization with Python (Cambridge University Press, 2025), he also organizes the IFIP Performance 2025 conference in Amsterdam.










