Massimo Ceraolo

GENERAL INFORMATION
Prof. Massimo Ceraolo graduated in Electrical Engineering with honors in 1985.
After several years as a researcher at a private company, he became a university researcher at the University of Pisa.
In 2000 he assumed the role of associate professor, and in 2002 full professor of Electric Power Systems at the University of Pisa.

FUNDED PROJECTS
He has been the coordinator of projects funded by public and private bodies. In particular, he coordinated a research activity to define the general architecture and high-level control logic, and to physically realise a hybrid propulsion scooter prototype, carried out in collaboration with the Piaggio group. The results of the research led Piaggio to market the first hybrid propulsion scooter in the world.

In recent years prof. Massimo Ceraolo he has been in charge of the following projects:
- 2008-2012: WP 5 of the "Filiera idrogeno" project for the construction, among other things, of a hydrogen-fueled hybrid fuel cell vehicle (value of coordinated activities: 1900 k€)
- 2010-2014: activities carried out by the University of Pisa in the project funded by the European Commission called HCV (Hybrid commercial Vehicle), for a value of approximately 300k€
- 2017-2019: activities carried out by the University of Pisa in the project financed by the Tuscan region called MAG-IA (Intelligent Warehouses from an Industry 4.0 perspective) for an activity value of approximately 500k€
- 2018-2021: activities carried out by the DESTEC Department of the University of Pisa in the project financed by the Tuscan region called SUMA (Active Multifunctional Urban Structure) for an activity value of approximately 300k€


RESEARCH TOPICS
The main research topics of prof. Ceraolo, in recent years, concern:
- electrochemical energy storage systems,
- electric and hybrid vehicles,
- electrically driven guided transport systems.

He is also active in defining specifications, creating and evaluating simulation and data analysis tools. In this context he collaborates in the improvement of standard libraries created in the Modelica modeling language (www.modelica.org), and of the simulation system based on it OpenModelica (www.openmodelica.org).
He is also the author of a program to visualize simulation and measurement data analysis (ceraolo-plotxy.ing.unipi.it/default.htm), used worldwide especially to support the electrical system simulation program EMTP-ATP (www.emtp.org)

TEACHING ACTIVITY
- teacher of Electric and Hybrid Vehicles for the "Laurea Magistrale" (=Master of Science) in Vehicular Engineering at the University of Pisa
- teacher of Electric Power Systems at the "Laurea" (=Bs degree) in Energy engineering at the University of Pisa
- teacher of Naval Electric Systems at the Naval Academy of Livorno
- teacher in some University of Pisa's "Italian Masters" (courses oriented by the industry for students which have already taken their Bachelor or Ms degrees) where he lectures on the fundamentals of electrical engineering, energy storage systems, electrical safety.

OTHER ACTIVITIES
- 2004-2011: coordinated the PhD course in Land Vehicles and Transport Systems" of the University of Pisa
- 2012-2013 represented the University of Pisa at the DITECFERR, "District for railway technologies, high speed, networks safety & security” of Tuscany.
- 2013-2016: was the President of the School of Engineering of the University of Pisa
- 2017-2022 was a member of the Patent Technical Commission of the University of Pisa.

He is the author, together with Davide Poli, of the educational book published by IEEE / Wiley: "Fundamentals of Electric Power Engineering - From electromagnetics to Power Systems"