Contact/CV
Contact
Physical
Postal Address:
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
JEC 6220, 110 Eighth Street
Troy, New York 12180-3590
USALocations @RPI
Office: JEC 6220
ALSETLab-Maxwell: JEC 6119
ALSETLab-Volta: 2327B ECSE, High Bay Area
Analog
- Mobile: (518) 496 0196
Digital
- Website: ALSETLab.com
- GMAIL E-mail: luigi.vanfretti@gmail.com
- Please don’t send emails to my @rpi.edu address, your email might be blocked by the university servers.
Abridged CV
- Please see my LinkedIn profile here, it is kept up to date more frequently.
- You can also see my faculty profile in RPI’s webpage, here.
Education
- Electrical Engineering Degree, Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, Spring 2005.
- Visiting Researcher, The University of Glasgow, Fall 2005.
- MSc in Electric Power Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2007. Major: Electric Power. Minor: Control Systems.
- Ph.D in Electric Power Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2009.
- Post Doc., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2010.
Work Experience:
Academic:
- 2022/7 – Current: Full Professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, U.S.A.
- 2017 – 2022/6: Associate Professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, U.S.A.
- 2022/7: Visiting Professor, SuperGrid Institute, Lyon, France.
- 2022/6: Invited Professor (Enseignant Invité), École Centrale de Lyon, Lyon, France.
- 2019/06-2019/08: Visiting Faculty, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia
- 2013 – 2017: (Tenured) Associate Professor, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
- 2012 – 2017: Docent, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
- 2010 – 2013: Assistant Professor, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Professional:
- 2020 – Current: Vanfretti Consulting LLC, Troy, NY, U.S.A.
- 2019-2021: Independent External Consultant to SuperGrid Institute, Lyon, France and Dominion Energy, VA, USA.
- 2014-2016: Special Advisor in Strategy and International Collaboration, Statnett SF, Norway
- 2013-2014: Special Advisor in Strategy, Statnett SF, Norway
Current Synergistic Activities:
OpenIPSL.org Project - A Modelica Library for Power Grid Simulation:
Technical Groups Membership / Participation:
Modelica Association - Elected as member in 2018, more info here
North American Modelica User’s Group (NAMUG) - Board Member (2018 - current) / Participant and Presenter: 2015 - 2017 link
Open Source Modelica Consortium (OSMC) - Individual Member:link
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