Antonio Morandi (M) is Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical, Electronic and Information Engineering. He has been visiting professor at Nagoya University, Japan and at Federal Fluminense University, Niteroi, Brazil. His research interests are on power applications of High Temperature Superconductors and advanced energy systems. He has been a member of the board of examiners of several PhD projects.
His expertise is mainly focused on Superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage, Superconducting Fault Current Limiters and Transformers, HTS DC distribution and transmission, HTS Permanent Magnets for high power density rotating machines and levitation and Numerical Modelling. He has coordinated or participated in research projects funded based on competitive calls by Public Agencies (EU and Italian government), and by private companies. He has contributed to the prototyping of superconducting power apparatus (FCL and SMES) and to the development of modeling and design tools. More in particular he was the PI of project “PRIN – Development of an Innovative Type Superconducting Fault Current Limiter” and local PI of project “DRYSMES4GRID - Development of a cryogen free cooled 500 kJ / 200 kW SMES demonstrator based on MgB2” and currently is the local PI of EU project SCARLET - Superconducting cables for sustainable energy transition”.
Antonio Morandi is author of more than 80 technical papers published in international journals and conferences. He is inventor of three patents. He is reviewer of research projects in the energy sector for the European Commission, the Italian Ministry of Education, Universities and Research and foreign research institutes. Antonio Morandi is coordinator of Subprogram 5 “Superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage”. He is vice-chair of the COST action “CA19108 - High-Temperature Superconductivity for AcceLerating the Energy Transition (Hi-SCALE)” and is board member of including ESAS – European Society for Applied Superconductivity, and ICEC – International Cryogenic Engineering Committee and a senior member of IEEE. He is a member of the Italian National Committee CEI CT90 – Superconductivity of and member of the International Steering Committee on HTS Modeling. He has been member of several program committees in international conferences. He was the chairman of the 5th International Workshop on Numerical Modelling of High Temperature Superconductors, Bologna-Italy, 2016 and co-chair of EUCAS2023 - 16th European Conference on Applied Superconductivity, Bologna, 3rd-7th September 2023. He is associate editor for IEEE transaction on Applied Superconductivity and serves as Guest Editor for SUST – Superconductor Science and Technology and MDPI Energies.
