Antonello Monti is originally from Italy, where he received his Doctoral degree in Electrical Engineering from Politecnico di Milano in 1994. He started his academic career there as Assistant Professor in 1995, after four years with Ansaldo Industria, in the lab of digital controls for high-power electrical drives.
He was for more than eight years Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering of the University of South Carolina, USA, where he worked on modeling and simulation challenges of the all-electric ship, sponsored by the US Navy.
In October 2008 he started the new Institute for Automation of Complex Power Systems at the E.ON Energy Research Center at RWTH Aachen University. The focus areas of the Institute are "Modeling, Simulation and lab Testing", "Home Energy Systems and Smart Cities", "Advanced control and Distributed intelligence" and "Power System Monitoring", for application in automated grids with deep penetration of renewables.
The Institute is main partner in various European projects, with emphasis on automation and communications in power systems, besides numerous other national, international , and privately sponsored research activities. TC 39 member
