Experience
Positions
- Nov 2023 to presentDoctoral Researcher, Politecnico di MilanoResearcher on national and European funded projects on sustainable mobility, smart islands and energy technologies. Lead engineer for research and development in the forecasting division of DomOpti, a Politecnico di Milano spin-off.
- Sep 2025 to Feb 2026Visiting Researcher, Polytechnique Montréal, CanadaCollaborative research on optimization and machine learning for decision-making in power systems.
- Feb 2025 to presentTeaching Assistant, Politecnico di MilanoLecturer on the master courses Electric Conversion from Green Sources of Energy and Fundamental Theory of Electric and Magnetic Circuits. Tutor on artificial intelligence for power systems; master's thesis supervisor.
- Feb 2023 to Jan 2024EU Project Manager, Cluster of Bioeconomy and Environment, GreeceCoordinated Horizon Europe research projects on renewable energy and advanced energy systems: cross-national partner collaboration, timelines and funding compliance. Proposal development, work-package structuring and periodic technical and budgetary reporting.
- Nov 2020 to Sep 2021Electrical Project Engineer, EcoEnergy SA, GreeceDesign, construction and commissioning of photovoltaic plants, combining office engineering with on-site supervision. Supply-chain coordination across projects, resolution of technical incidents and delivery on schedule and within budget.
Education
Degrees
- Nov 2023 to Nov 2026PhD in Electrical Engineering, Politecnico di MilanoThesis: Advanced Photovoltaic and Load Power Forecasting Methods for Optimal Microgrid Scheduling. Forecasting and optimization methods for microgrid scheduling, validated on a laboratory microgrid. Supervisors: Sonia Leva and Marco Mussetta. Defense expected November 2026.
- Sep 2016 to Jun 2023Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Western Macedonia, GreeceIntegrated master's degree, 300 ECTS, specializing in power systems within electrical and energy engineering and computer science.
- Sep 2021 to Feb 2022Erasmus semester, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, SpainHands-on work in the IoT Laboratory and the Renewable Energies Laboratory.
Output
Publications
One journal article and six conference papers published, four journal manuscripts under review at Energy, Applied Energy, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid and IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, and two papers accepted at ELECTRIMACS 2026. Full list on the Research page.
Skills
Methods, tools and languages
Expertise
- AI modelling for power systems
- Forecasting: PV, load, electricity prices
- Day-ahead electricity market
- Decision-focused learning and optimization
Machine learning and optimization
- PyTorch, TensorFlow/Keras, scikit-learn
- Time-series and deep learning models
- CVXPY, Pyomo, Gurobi
- MILP and LP formulations
Programming and tools
- Python (NumPy, pandas, Matplotlib), SQL, C
- GitHub, GitLab, Docker, Linux
- Time-series databases, Grafana
- HOMER, DIgSILENT
Languages
- Greek, native
- English, C2
- Italian, B1
- Spanish, B1