Luca Vancini has been a Tenure-Track Researcher at the University of Bologna since 2025. His research focuses on electric drives, with particular emphasis on fault diagnosis in multiphase drives and the development of fault-tolerant control systems.
Education
Luca Vancini received his Master’s degree in Electrical Energy Engineering from the University of Bologna in 2018. His thesis was entitled “Design and Implementation of the Control System for a Three-Level Multiphase Inverter for Industrial and Wind Energy Applications”.
Supervisor: Prof. G. Serra.
In 2021, he received his PhD in Automotive Engineering for Intelligent Mobility (34th cycle) from the Department of Electrical, Electronic and Information Engineering “Guglielmo Marconi” at the University of Bologna. His doctoral thesis was entitled “Multi-Phase Electric Drives for Mobility”.
Supervisor: Prof. A. Tani. PhD Programme Coordinator: Prof. N. Cavina.
Academic Career
From 2018 to 2022, he was a PhD student at the Department of Electrical, Electronic and Information Engineering at the University of Bologna, conducting research on electrical machines and multiphase power electronic converters.
In 2022, he became a Research Fellow at the same department.
In 2025, he was appointed Tenure-Track Researcher (RTT) at the Department of Electrical, Electronic and Information Engineering at the University of Bologna.
Teaching Assistant
Academic year 2018–2019: Static Conversion of Electrical Energy M — 30 hours.
Academic year 2019–2020: Static Conversion of Electrical Energy M — 30 hours.
Academic year 2020–2021: Electric Actuators P — 30 hours.
Academic year 2020–2021: Electric Drives T (Module 2) — 30 hours.
Academic year 2021–2022: Electric Actuators P — 30 hours.
Academic year 2021–2022: Automotive Power Electronic Circuits Design M — 30 hours.
Academic year 2022–2023: Electric Actuators P — 30 hours.
Academic year 2022–2023: Automotive Power Electronic Circuits Design M — 30 hours.
Academic year 2022–2023: Electric Drives — 20 hours.
Adjunct Professor
Academic year 2022–2023: Control Systems and Actuators Laboratory P (Module 2) — 30 hours.
Academic year 2023–2024: Control Systems and Actuators Laboratory P (Module 2) — 30 hours.
Academic year 2024–2025: Control Systems and Actuators Laboratory P (Module 2) — 30 hours.
Academic year 2025–2026: Control Systems and Actuators Laboratory P (Module 2) — 30 hours.
Academic year 2026–2027: Electric Actuators P — 30 hours.
Course Instructor
Academic year 2026–2027: Control Systems and Actuators Laboratory P (Module 2) — 30 hours.
Academic year 2026–2027: Electric Drives (Module 2) — 30 hours.
Research Interests
His research interests include:
- Development of electric drives for industrial and automotive applications.
- Development of fault-tolerant electric drives.
- Development of control algorithms for fault detection and estimation.
- Multiphase drives.
- Sensorless drives.
- Renewable energy conversion systems.
- Electrical energy conversion systems.
Publications
He has authored 54 scientific publications in the fields of power electronic converters, electrical machines and electric drives.
