Mario Paolone
Full Professor
mario.paolone@epfl.ch +41 21 693 26 62 https://www.epfl.ch/labs/desl-pwrs
Citizenship: Italian
EPFL STI IEL DESL
ELL 136 (Bâtiment ELL)
Station 11
1015 Lausanne
Web site: Web site: https://desl-pwrs.epfl.ch
EPFL STI IEM DESL
ELL 116 (Bâtiment ELL)
Station 11
1015 Lausanne
+41 21 693 26 62
Office:
ELL 136
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Publications
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Mission
The research activities of the Distributed Electrical Systems Laboratory (DESL) refer to the development of smart grid concept solutions in order to efficiently deliver sustainable, economic and secure electricity supply. These solutions aim to integrate intelligently the actions of all users connected to the electrical network whatever they are generators or consumers. They rely on innovative products and services together with intelligent monitoring, control, communication and self-healing technologies to:- facilitate the connection and operation of generators of all sizes and technologies;
- allow consumers to play a part in optimizing the operation of the system;
- provide consumers with greater information and choice of supply;
- significantly reduce the environmental impact of the whole electricity supply system;
- deliver enhanced levels of reliability and security of supply while accounting for the uncertainty of renewable energy sources, the increase of dispersed generation and storage facilities and the rules inherent to the liberalization of electricity market.
The activities of the DESL and PWRS are sponsored by the Swiss National Science Foundation, the Swiss Commission for Technologyand Innovation, the Swiss Electric Research and Swiss and foreign electrical industries and utilities and the European Union.
The major research topics are:
- dynamic phenomena (modeling and control) in power systems;
- integration within the power distribution networks of the distributed generation and storage technologies;
- power distribution networks monitoring and advanced metering;
- real-time operation and control of electrical grids with special reference to power distribution networks;
- advanced protection techniques;
- ICT integration into smart grids: from generation to appliances.
Biography
Mario Paolone received the M.Sc. (with honors) and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Bologna, Italy, in 1998 and 2002, respectively. In 2005, he was appointed assistant professor in power systems at the University of Bologna where he was with the Power Systems laboratory until 2011. In 2010, he received the Associate Professor eligibility from the Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Since 2011 he joined the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland, where he is now Full Professor, Chair of the Distributed Electrical Systems laboratory.He has been the Head of the Swiss Competence Center for Energy Research (SCCER) FURIES (Future Swiss Electrical infrastructure) and of the EPFL Energy Centerl.
His research interests focus on power systems with particular reference to real-time monitoring and operational aspects, power systems protections, dynamics and transients. Dr. Paolone’s most significant contributions are in the field of synchrophasors-based situational awareness of Active Distribution Networks (ADNs) and in the field of exact, convex and computationally-efficient methods for the optimal planning and operation of ADNs. Dr. Paolone was the founder Editor-in-Chief of the Elsevier journal Sustainable Energy, Grids and Networks.
Dr. Paolone is author or coauthor of over 360 scientific papers published in mainstream journals and international conferences in the area of power and energy systems.
Awards
2022 : IEEE Fellow : IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
2020 : 2020 IEEE Power System Dynamic Performance Committee’s prize paper award : For the paper "“Beyond Phasors: Modeling of Power System Signals Using the Hilbert Transform”.
2020 : 2020 IEEE PES Working Group Recognition Award for the Technical Report PES-TR66 : IEEE PES-TR66 "Microgrid Stability Definitions, Analysis and Modeling".
2018 : Richard B. Schulz Best IEEE Trans. on EMC paper award : For the paper "A Full-Scale Experimental Validation of Electromagnetic Time Reversal Applied to Locate Disturbances in Overhead Power Distribution Lines".
2017 : Richard B. Schulz Best IEEE Trans. on EMC paper award : For the paper On Lightning Electromagnetic Field Propagation Along an Irregular Terrain".
2014 : Best paper award "Probabilistic Assessment of the Process-Noise Covariance Matrix of Discrete Kalman Filter State Estimation of Active Distribution Networks" : 13th International Conference on Probabilistic Methods Applied to Power Systems
2013 : IEEE EMC Society Technical Achievement Award : IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
2013 : Basil Papadias Best Paper award For the paper "On the Use of Electromagnetic Time Reversal to Locate Faults in Series-Compensated Transmission Lines" : 2013 IEEE PowerTech
Publications
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Teaching
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