Andrea Martinelli
Postdoctoral Researcher & Lecturer
Automatic Control Laboratory
ETH Zurich
Academic bio
I am currently a Postoctoral Researcher at the Automatic Control Laboratory (IfA) of ETH Zurich and Program Manager of the CAS ETH in Automation.
I obtained the BSc degree in Management Engineering in 2015 and the MSc degree with honours in Control Engineering in 2017, both from Politecnico di Milano. In 2017, I worked at the Laboratoire d'Automatique (LA) of EPFL to develop my MSc thesis under the guidance of Prof. G. Ferrari-Trecate. In 2018, I worked as research assistant with Prof. R. Scattolini at the Systems & Control Group of Politecnico di Milano. In early 2024 I obtained my PhD degree from the Automatic Control Laboratory at ETH Zurich supervised by Prof. J. Lygeros.
Research interests
I am interested in investigating theoretical and practical aspects of control theory and dynamical systems, including:
Optimal control, reinforcement learning and approximate dynamic programming
Interconnected dynamical systems, renewable energy distribution models
News
Dec '24. I am proud to share that my PhD thesis received the ETH Medal 🏅 for outstanding doctoral thesis!
Dec '24. Great talks and fun times in Milano for the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
In June '25 I am teaching a new post-graduate course for managers and professionists, the CAS ETH in Automation!