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Curriculum

Giovanni PETRONE Curriculum

Giovanni Petrone was born in Roccapiemonte (Salerno -Italy) on 23 March 1975.

Studies

  • Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University "Federico II" of Naples (Italy) on March 16th, 2004.
  • M.Sc. degree in Electronic Engineering (summa cum laude) from the University of Salerno (Italy) on January 15th, 2001.

Positions held

  • March 2024 to present Associate Professor of “Elettrotecnica” (ING-IND/31) at the University of Salerno.
  • October 2014 to February 2024 Associate Professor of “Elettrotecnica” (ING-IND/31) at the University of Salerno.
  • January 2005 to October 2014 Assistant Professor of “Elettrotecnica” (ING-IND/31) at the University of Salerno.
  • April 2004 to December 2004 Research grant in the frame of a regional project (mis. 3.13 POR 2000/2006).

Main research interest

  • modeling and regulation techniques of energy production systems from renewable sources
  • models and methods for the design of power electronic circuits
  • non-linear control techniques for switching circuits
  • monitoring and diagnostics of renewable sources and electrochemical systems
  • algorithms and architectures for distributed generation in intelligent electricity grids
  • analysis and optimization of high efficiency wireless power systems

The activities are mainly carried out at the Department of Information and Electrical Engineering and Applied Mathematics (DIEM) of the University of Salerno and developed within multiple research programs funded by the European community, ministerial research programs and collaboration contracts with companies. In some cases the activities were integrated into a multidisciplinary context which led to close collaboration with groups of national and international researchers in industrial and information engineering fields. The exchange of knowledge and investigative methodologies, as well as experimental experiences allowed to achieve significant results and contributed to enrich the knowledg of scientific community.

Publications

  • Co-author of more than 170 papers published in international journals and conference proceedings.
  • Co-author of 9 patents (some are still patent pending) in the field of control techniques for renewable sources applications.
  • Co-author of two IEEE Learning Library Course: “Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT): Algorithms and Applications” and “Non-Linear Control Techniques in Photovoltaic and Fuel Cell Power Processing Systems”, publication year 2012.
  • Co-author of two scientific books:
    • Power Electronics and Control Techniques for Maximum Energy Harvesting in Photovoltaic Systems ". Taylor & Francis - 2012 - CRC Press, ISBN: 9781466506909
    • Photovoltaic Sources Modeling”. Wiley-IEEE Press- 2017, ISBN: 978-1-118-67903-6.

Coordination of Funded Research Projects

  • Responsible for the University of Salerno EuropeanProject (2021-2025): SMARTGYsum - Research and Training Network for Smart and Green Energy Systems and Business Models nanziato con bando H2020-MSCA-ITN-2020 Action: MSCA-ITN-ETN European Training Networks (GA no.955614).
  • Coordinator of the research unit of the “Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione ed Elettrica e Matematica Applicata” of the University of Salerno in the frame of the European Project EU H2020: “Implementation in real SOFC Systems of monitoring and diagnostic tools using signal analysis to increase their lifetime” (INSIGHT) (2017-2019).
  • PRIN 2022 PNRR (2023-2025): "Enhanced Device for Online diaGnosis of PHOtovoltaic and Storage Systems (DOGPHOSS)" (Principal Investigator and National coordinator).
  • PRIN2017 (2020-2024): "Holistic approach to EneRgy- efficient smart nanOGRIDS (HEROGRIDS)" (Responsible of the University Research Unit)..
  • PRIN 2008 project funded by Italian government, entitled: Miniturbine eoliche per funzionamento universale (grid-connected, standalone, microgrid) (Responsible of the University Research Unit).
  • PRIN 2006 project funded by Italian government, entitled: Integrazione di sistemi fotovoltaici in autoveicoli convenzionali ed ibridi. (Responsible of the University Research Unit).
  • Project funded by Campania Region, law 05/2002, entitled: High efficiency grid-connected inverters for renewable sources using innovative control techniques and robust design methodologies. (Responsible of the Research Project).
  • Responsible of the University FARB Research Projects :
    • 2022-2025: Modelli e dispositivi intelligenti per la gestione e la diagnostica delle fonti rinnovabili e dei sistemi di accumulo dell'energia
    • 2020 -2023: Controllo e diagnostica in linea di dispositivi fotovoltaici e di accumulo dell'energia elettrica per applicazioni alla mobilita elettrica ed alle smart grid.
    • 2019-2022: Modelli e metodi per il controllo e la diagnosi in linea di sistemi di accumulo di energia e fonti rinnovabili.
    • 2013-2015: Tecniche numeriche per la diagnostica di moduli fotovoltaici.
    • 2012-2014: Modelli e algoritmi per la ricongurazione automatica del campo fotovoltaico finalizzati alla massimizzazione dell'energia prodotta.
    • 2011-2013: Tecnica di controllo sliding mode per applicazioni fotovoltaiche.

Participation in other research projects

  • European Project EU H2020: REACTT Raliable Advanced diagnostics and Control tools for increased lifeTime of solid oxide cell Technology (2021-2023)
  • POR CAMPANIA FESR 2014-2020 E-Mobility: Energy Systems, Power Electronics and drives for Electric Vehicles (2021-2023)
  • European Project EU H2020: RUBY Robust and reliable general management tool for performance and durability improvement of fuel cell stationary units (2020-2024)
  • European Project EU H2020: Optimised energy managment and use (OPTEMUS) (2015-2019).
  • European Project EU H2020: Real operation pem fuel cell HEALTH state monitoring and diagnosis based on DC/DC Converter embedded EIS (HEALTH-CODE) (2015-2018).
  • European Project FP7: ENIAC END: Models, Solutions, Methods and Tools for ENergy-Aware Design (2010-2012).
  • European Project FP7: DC/DC COnverter-based Diagnostics for PEM systems D-CODE (2011-2013).
  • Progetto Vigoni: Circuiti elettronici di potenza ad alta efficienza ed affidabilità per il fotovoltaico (2008-2009).
  • European Project Leonardo Da Vinci: Energy Conversion Systems and their Environmental Impact (I/05/B/F/PP-154181) (2005-2007)
  • Progetto Galileo 2012-2013 (G12-96): “Rilievo di guasti in sistemi che sfruttano fonti energetiche rinnovabili: affidabilità e ottimizzazione”.

Participation in research projects in collaboration with industries

  • 2010-2013: “Progetto di circuiti elettronici di potenza per applicazioni alle fonti energetiche rinnovabili”, three years project financed by Bitron Industrie S.p.A. in Grugliasco (TO), (Responsible G.Spagnuolo).
  • 2010: “Studio e sviluppo di un algoritmo per l’individuazione di fenomeni di perdita di produttività energetica in un impianto fotovoltaico in assenza di sensori ambientali”, project financed by Elettronica Santerno S.p.a. (Responsible N.Femia).
  • 2009: “Analisi di circuiti elettronici di potenza per il controllo di singoli pannelli fotovoltaici, nonchè studio di fattibilità di un apparato di illuminazione stradale che impieghi lampade LED alimentate da un sistema combinato fotovoltaico/eolico/accumulo”, project financed by Bitron Industrie S.p.A. in Grugliasco (TO), (Responsible G.Spagnuolo).
  • 2008: “Tecnologie per l’energia e il monitoraggio ambientale”, project financed by Matrix S.r.l. in Conversano (BA), (Responsible N.Femia).
  • 2008: “Reliability issues in micro-inverters for photovoltaic modules”, project financed by National Semiconductors Corporation in Santa Clara (USA), (Responsible G.Spagnuolo).
  • 2008: “Sviluppo ed ottimizzazione di un caricabatterie boost per applicazioni fotovoltaiche di tipo standalone”, project financed by Matrix S.r.l. in Conversano (BA), (Responsible G.Spagnuolo).
  • 2007: “Ottimizzazione del controllore MPPT di un inverter fotovoltaico trifase”, project financed by Astrid Energy Enterprises S.p.a., (Responsible N.Femia).
  • 2004: “Sviluppo di un codice numerico per l’ottimizzazione di sistemi fotovoltaici”, project financed by MagneTek S.p.A. Terranuova Bracciolini (AR), (Responsible N.Femia).
  • 2002-2005: “Ottimizzazione di un sistema ibrido di produzione di energia elettrica da fonti rinnovabili”, three years project financed by MagneTek S.p.A., Terranuova Bracciolini (AR), (Responsible N.Femia).

Prizes

  • October 2023 included in the Elsevier database, as worldwide top 2% cited scientists. (the same for the year 2017-2019-2020-2021). https://doi.org/10.17632/btchxktzyw.6
  • Februry 2023 included in thel World Online Ranking of Best Electronics and Electrical Engineering Scientists (https://research.com/u/giovanni-petrone).
  • September 2015 included in the “Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher” for the year 2015 (web: highlycited.com)
  • June 2014 Mention for the highest number of citations among the publications of the University of Salerno for the paper:” Optimization of perturb and observe maximum power point tracking method”.
  • 2012) Passed the national evaluation for applying the Full professor position.
  • (October 2011) DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst - German Academic Exchange Service) university grant for research activities.

Invited Lectures

  • “Problematiche e nuove funzionalità per l'integrazione del fotovoltaico e dei sistemi di accumulo nelle reti intelligenti”, Riunione Annuale dei Ricercatori di Elettrotecnica, Ancona 23-24 giugno 2022.
  • “HW and SW for on-board implementation of EIS”, Workshop on Monitoring and Diagnostics of Fuel Cells (13 November 2018 Brussels).
  • “Hardware/software design for on-board fuel cell EIS”, Workshop on Monitoring, Diagnostics and Control for Fuel Cells, European Fuel Cell Forum 2017, Lucerne (CH) (04 July 2017).
  • “Innovative Methods for Photovoltaic Systems”, GREENGINEERING workshop at the University of Salerno (1-2 September 2015).
  • “Non linear control techniques in photovoltaic and fuel cell power processing systems”. workshop IEEE Seminar on Renewable Energy Systems (SERENE), University of Salerno (1-2 June 2010).
  • “High efficiency and reliability power converters for photovoltaic applications” in the frame of the Hannover fair –Germany (21 April 2010).
  • “Auxiliary Power Unit basate su fonti energetiche rinnovabili”, in the frame of workshop “Innovazioni nella Nautica” at the University of Salerno (22 May 2008).
  • “Progettazione e Validazione Sperimentale di Circuiti Elettronici di Potenza per Applicazioni Fotovoltaiche”, in the frame of ET2005, Riunione Annuale dei Ricercatori di Elettrotecnica, Roma 16-18 June 2005.

Lectures given in foreign universities

  • July 2023 (8h): "Modelling of Photovoltaic arrays operating in uniform and mismatched conditions", University NOVA of Lisbon. Doctoral school organised in the frame of EU project SMARTGYsum.
  • 27-29 September 2016 - (4+4 hours) seminars for master and PhD students entitled:: ”Photovoltaic modeling and MPPT control-basic issues” and ”Photovoltaic modeling and MPPT control-issues related to mismatched operation” at the University of Cergy-Pontois (France),
  • May 2015 - two hours seminar for master and PhD students entitled: “Diagnostic for Photovoltaic panels: models and methods for the on-line identification of the PV degradation”, University of Malaga (Spain)
  • April 2012 - two hours seminar for master and PhD students entitled: “Power Electronics in Smart Grid”, University of Malaga (Spain)
  • July 2011- five hours seminar for master and PhD students entitled: “Distributed Maximum Power Point Tracking: Architectures, Techniques and Commercial devices” University of Rovira I Virgili - Tarragona (Spain), financed by Erasmus teaching program.

PhD Committees

  • November 2018 - Member of the evaluation board at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, for achieving the PhD in Sciences de l'Ingenieur et Technologie for the student Ander Gonzalez Fernandez de Bobadilla.
  • May 2018 - Member of the evaluation board for achieving the PhD in Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Computing at the Universidad National de Colombia, for the student Luz Adriana Trejos Grisales.
  • December 2016 - Member of the evaluation board for achieving the PhD in Electrical Engineering at the Politecnico of Milan for the students Dr.Mohammadreza Aghaei, Dr. Mohamed Khalil, Dr. Payam Soulatiantork.
  • June 2016 – Member of the evaluation board for achieving the PhD in Electrical & Electronic Engineering at the Universidad del Valle -Cali (Colombia) in co-tutorship with University of Salerno (Italy) for the student Dr. Martha Lucia Orozco Gutierrez
  • June 2014 – Member of the evaluation board for achieving the PhD in Electrical & Electronic Engineering at the Universidad del Valle -Cali (Colombia) in co-tutorship with University of Salerno (Italy),for the student Dr. Juan David Bastidas-Rodriguez.

Research activities in foreign universities

  • September 2016 visiting researcher (2 weeks) at the Laboratory of Systems & Applications of Information & Energy Technologies - SATIE of the University of Cergy-Pontois (France).
  • May 2015 - visiting researcher (1 week) at the university of Malaga (Spagna).
  • October 2011 – one month visiting researcher at “Centre of Competence for Distributed Electric Power Technology”, University of Kassel (Germany), financed with DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst - German Academic Exchange Service) university grant.
  • April 2010 – two weeks visiting researcher at “Centre of Competence for Distributed Electric Power Technology” University of Kassel (Germany) in the frame of bilateral Vigoni project.

Memberships

  • IEEE Senior member (March 2017), IEEE member (since 2013).
  • Associate Editor of the journal IET Power Electronics (May 2017) .
  • Associate Editor of the IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics.(September 2011)
  • May 2019 - member of ELECTRIMACS committe of the International Association for Mathematics and Computers in Simulation (IMACS).
  • Member of: "IEEE Industrial Electronics Society - Technical Committee on Renewable Energy Systems" (October 2009) .

Editorial Activities

  • 2020-2021 Guest Editor for the Special Issue of journal Applied Sciences: “Recent Advances in Materials and Technologies for Photovoltaic Systems”
  • 2019 - 2021 Guest Editor for the Special Issue of journal Elsevier Mathematics and Computers in Simulation -MATCOM collecting a selection of extended version of papers presented at the ELECTRIMACS 2019 conference
    • “Modelling and computational simulation for analysis and optimization in electrical power engineering”,
    • “Modelling and computational simulation for control and diagnosis in renewable energy systems, energy storage, innovative devices and materials”
  • 2019 - 2020 Co-Editor di 2 volumes of Springer Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering (LNEE) collecting a selection of papers presented at the ELECTRIMACS 2019 conference
    • ELECTRIMACS 2019 Volume 1, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-37161-6, April 2020
    • ELECTRIMACS 2019 Volume 2, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-56970-9, December 2020.
  • 2009 - Guest Editor for the Special Issue “Efficient and reliable Photovoltaic Systems" della rivista IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics.
  • 2008 - Guest Editor for the Special Issue “Industrial Electronics for Photovoltaic Systems" della rivista IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics.

Roles in Conferences Organization

  • General co-chair for the 13th International Conference on Modeling and Simulation of Electric Machines, Converters and Systems (ELECTRIMACS 2019) Salerno 21-23 May 2019. www.electrimacs2019.unisa.it.
  • Co-chair for the track “Renewable Energy Systems” in the 19th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology (ICIT 2018), Lion-France, 20-22 Febbraio 2018.
  • Member of the organizing committee of the workshops “IEEE Seminar on Renewable Energy Systems (SERENE)- University of Salerno (12-13 June 2009) and (1-2 June 2010).

Track co-Chair for Special Sessions in International conferences:

  • ELECTRIMACS 2024- “Optimization, Machine Learning, and Cloud/Edge Computing technologies for Energy Management Systems (EMS) in microgrids” 15th International Conference of TC-Electrimacs Committee.
  • ELECTRIMACS 2022- "Advance in Nanogrids Architectures for Smart Buildings and Energy Community" 14th International Conference of TC-Electrimacs Committee.
  • SMACD 2017- “Modeling, Diagnosis and Control of Photovoltaic systems: recent advances and perspective” 14th International Conference on Synthesis, Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Methods and Applications to Circuit Design
  • EPE-PEMC 2012 - “Photovoltaic systems for building integration and sustainable mobility”, 15th International Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference - Novi Sad, Republic of Serbia - September 2012
  • ICIT 2010- “Power electronics dedicated to a single photovoltaic module: grid-connected and standalone applications”, IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology - Vina del Mar Chile - March 2010.
  • ISCAS 2010 – “Circuits and Systems for Renewable Energy Sources”, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems - Paris - June 2010.
  • ISIE 2010 – “Granular control of renewable energy systems”, IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics– Bari - July 2010.
  • ISIE 2007 – “Power Electronics for Photovoltaics”, IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics - Vigo - June 2007.

Reviewer of Research Projects

  • External Reviewer for the Agenzia Nazionale di Valutazione del sistema Universitario e della Ricerca (ANVUR) VQR 2015-19 (2021)
  • Reviewer for the R&D Agency of Kuwait (2017; 2022;2023)
  • Reviewer for the R&D Agency of Slovak Republic i(2006-2007)
  • Reviewer of research project granted by Piemonte Region-Italy (2011).

Other roles

  • Delegate for the “Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione ed Elettrica e Matematica Applicata” of the University of Salerno for the management of incoming student accessing to the Bachelor's degree of the DIEM.
  • Responsible for the University of Salerno of the Erasmus agreements with the Université de Cergy Pontoise -France (2014-2027), Universidad de Malaga -Spain (2014-2027) and University of Kiel-Germany (2015-2020) for exchanging students in the frame of Computer Engineering, Electronics and Automation, Electricity and Energy.
  • Co-supervisor of PhD students in Computer and Electrical Engineering of the University of Salerno.
  • Supervisor or co-supervisor of more than 50 thesis of bachelor and master students in Computer Engineering, Electronic Engineering and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Salerno.