Adriano Mele
Nationality: Italian
EPFL SB SPC-TCV
PPB 119 (Bâtiment PPB)
Station 13
1015 Lausanne
+41 21 693 64 86
Office: PPB 119
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PPB 119 (Bâtiment PPB)
Station 13
1015 Lausanne
+41 21 693 64 86
Office: PPB 119
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I am also Research Topic Coordinator in the EUROfusion Tokamak Exploitation WorkPackage, for the Research Topic 04: Physics-based machine generic systems for an integrated control of plasma discharge, and an Associate Editor in the Franklin Open journal.
In 2022-2023, I have been an Assistant Professor in Automatic Control at the University of Tuscia, Viterbo.
Before that, from 2019 to 2021, I have been a post-doctoral researcher at the CREATE consortium, host by the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology (DIETI) of the University of Napoli Federico II. The position was funded by an EUROfusion Engineering Grant for the development of diagnostic systems for the DTT device.
In the years 2015-2019, I've been enrolled in the Joint European Research Doctorate in Fusion Science and Engineering PhD programme, in co-supervision with the University of Padua. My main PhD research topic was the development of a flexible and robust control architecture for plasma magnetic control in tokamak reactors (read the full thesis).
My research interests include control systems for nuclear fusion reactors, data-driven and machine learning control applications and control theory in general.
Professionals experiences
Research Topic Coordinator
Education
Automatica
| Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale (Italian license to become Associate Professor)2025 – 2026 Ministero dell'Università e della Ricerca
Fusion Science and Engineering
| Control engineering applied to Nuclear Fusion experiments2015 – 2019 Università degli Studi di Padova - Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Awards
Eurofusion Engineering Grant
Personal 3-years grant for the study of diagnostic systems for the DTT tokamak
2019
Teaching & PhD
Courses
Control and Operation of Tokamaks
PHYS-748
This course treats the main issues in operation and control of a tokamak. Control-oriented models are derived and controllers are designed using techniques from modern control theory. Operational limits are discussed as well as state-of-the-art research questions for future reactors.