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Room 5111.0147, Nijenborh 4, 9747, AG Groningen, The Netherlands
Email: m.vanelli@rug.nl
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Address
Room 5111.0147, Nijenborh 4, 9747, AG Groningen, The Netherlands
Email: m.vanelli@rug.nl
Linkedin, Google Scholar , Researchgate
Welcome to my personal academic website! I am Assistant Professor within the Smart Manufacturing Systems (SMS) group at the Engineering and Technology Institute Groningen (ENTEG) at the University of Groningen.
I received a B.Sc. degree and a M.Sc. degree (with honors) in Applied Mathematics in 2017 and 2019, respectively. From November 2019 until January 2024, I was a PhD student at the Deparment of Mathematical Sciences of Politecnico di Torino, under the supervision of Prof. Giacomo Como and Prof. Fabio Fagnani. From January 2023 to January 2024, I was a research assistant at Politecnico di Torino. From February 2024 to May 2026, I was a Postdoctoral fellow at the Mathematical Engineering department of the ICTEAM Institute at UCLouvain, working with Prof. Julien M. Hendrickx.
My research interests are centered around the analysis, identification and control of multi-agent and network systems, primarily with applications to electricity markets and social and economic networks.
Download my curriculum vitae here: CV
News
June 1, 2026. I am very happy to share that I am starting a new position as Assistant Professor at the University of Groningen in the group Smart Manufacturing Systems!
March 19-20, 2026. I am visiting the GIPSALab at Université Grenoble Alpes, invited by Paolo Frasca and Gustav Nilsson. On March 19, I will give a seminar on "Pricing, network and regulatory effects in electricity markets".
December 2025. Great news! I am excited to share that the FNRS Research Project "Interpolation Conditions for Physics-Informed Data-Driven Control", co-authored with J. Hendrickx, has been funded! A PhD position will be advertised soon, stay tuned!
June 24-27, 2025. I am attending ECC2025 in Thessaloniki, Greece. On June 25, I will give a talk on "Local Identifiability of Networks with Nonlinear Node Dynamics"
May 12-14, 2025. I am visiting the group of Division of Decision and Control Systems of KTH Royal Institute of Technology, invited by Angela Fontan. On May 13, I will give a seminar on "Game-theoretical models for the electricity market".
May 2025. Our preprint On signed network coordination games is now on arxiv
April 2025. Our preprint How competitive are pay-as-bid auctions games? is now on arxiv
April 2025. Our preprint Physics-informed data-driven control without persistence of excitation is now available here
18-20 March 2025. I am attending the Benelux meeting, where I am giving a talk on Local Identifiability of Networks with Nonlinear Node Dynamics
March 2025. Our paper Local Identifiability of Networks with Nonlinear Node Dynamics has been accepted to ECC25
December 2024. I am attending the Conference on Decision and Control in Milan, Italy, where I am presenting at the CDC Workshop Complex Socio-Technical Networked Dynamics as a young researcher (the presentations are available here)
November 2024. I am visiting the group of Mathematical Optimization of University of Passau, invited by Prof. Tobias Harks. On November 27, I will give a guest lecture on "The pay-as-bid auction game".
September 2024. I am attending the Symposium on Systems Theory in Data and Optimization (SysDO) 2024, where I will present a poster on "Local Identifiability of Networks with Nonlinear Node Dynamics"
March 2024. I am attending the Benelux meeting 2024, where I will give a presentation on "Signed network coordination games".
February 2024. I am starting a postdoctoral position at UCLouvain under the supervision of Prof. Julien Hendrickx
January 2024. I have successfully defended my PhD thesis titled "Game-theoretic models for auctions in electricity markets"
October 2023. I am visiting UCLouvain in Belgium on October 29-30, giving an invited seminar on “On mixed network coordination/anticoordination games"
September 2023. I am visiting the Linköping University in Sweden for the Network Dynamics and Control ELIIT Focus Period, from September 11 to September 30. I will present a seminar talk titled “On mixed network coordination/anticoordination games” on September 26
July 2023. I am attending the IFAC World Congress 2023, Yokohama, Japan, where I am presenting the paper "Nash equilibria of the pay-as-bid auction game"
June 2023. I am visiting Lund university in Sweden, giving an invited seminar on "Nash equilibria of the pay-as-bid auction game"