Contact/CV

Contact

Postal Address

• Postal Address:

  Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  JEC 6220
  110 Eighth Street
  Troy, New York 12180-3590
  USA
  

• Locations @RPI:

  Office: JEC 6220
  ALSETLab-Maxwell: JEC 6119
  ALSETLab-Volta: 2327B ECSE, High Bay Area
  

  Phone

• Mobile: (518) 496 0196

Website and Email

• 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 and Degrees

• 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, 2009-2010.
• Post Doc., KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, 2010.
• Docent (Swedish Habilitiation), KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, June 2012.
  

Work Experience:

Academic:

At RPI:

• 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.

Part-time appointments:

• 2023/6 - 2023/07: Visiting Researcher, École Centrale de Lyon, Lyon, France.
• 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

AT KTH:

• 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.
• 2023/08 - 2024/03: Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs., Cambridge, MA, USA.
• 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
• 2011-2013: Independent External Consultant as Scientific Advisor to the R&D Division of Statnett SF, Norway.

Current Synergistic Activities:

OpenIPSL.org Project

Coordinating the development of a Modelica Library for Power Grid Simulation, see more http://openipsl.org

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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