Maria Serra Prat

Professora Agregada


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Automatic Control


E-mail maserra (at) iri.upc.edu

Phone 93 4015789

Internal Phone 93 4013009

Prof. Maria Serra (graduate in Physics, 1995, PhD in Chemical Enginnering, 2000) is Associate Professor of the Automatic Control Department at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya since 2008. She is currently the Head of the Automatic Control Group in the Insitut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial (IRI). Her research interests are modeling and control of complex systems, focusing on energy generation and fuel-cell systems.

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  • B. Garcia, P. Cardona, L. Valiño, C. Ocampo-Martínez, L. Siemon and M. Serra. Techno-economic analysis of a renewable hydrogen refuelling station network: The case study of Spain. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 198: 152325, 2026.

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  • T.P. Puleston, A. Cecilia, A. Clemente, R. Costa and M. Serra. Kazantzis-Kravaris/Luenberger observer for the joint estimation of vanadium flow battery concentrations and side-reaction rates. Journal of Energy Storage, 139: 118760, 2025.

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  • P. Cardona, L. Valiño, C. Ocampo-Martínez and M. Serra. Mixed logical dynamical modelling of renewable hydrogen refuelling stations for the design of optimization-based operational schemes. Applied Energy, 393(126037), 2025.

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  • A. Cecilia, M. Serra and R. Costa. Real-time parameter estimation of polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell in absence of excitation. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 52: 37-48, 2024.

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  • A. Molavi, A.P. Husar, H. Hjortberg, N. Nilsson, M. Kogler, J. Sanchez Monreal, Y. Eldigair and M. Serra. State machine-based architecture to control system processes in a hybrid fuel cell electric vehicle. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 52: 1220-1235, 2024.

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  • T.P. Puleston, G. Marini, A. Trovò, M. Serra, R. Costa and M. Guarnieri. Optimised partial remixing procedure for mitigating capacity loss in imbalanced vanadium flow batteries, 2024 International Flow Battery Forum, 2024, Glasgow, UK, pp. 90-91.

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  • T.P. Puleston, A. Trovò, G. Marini, M. Serra, R. Costa and M. Guarnieri. Design and experimental validation of an optimal remixing procedure for vanadium flow batteries affected by faradaic imbalance. Journal of Power Sources, 624: 235487, 2024.

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  • T.P. Puleston, A. Cecilia, R. Costa and M. Serra. Nonlinear observer for online concentration estimation in vanadium flow batteries based on half-cell voltage measurements. Computers and Chemical Engineering, 185: 108664, 2024.

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  • P. Cardona, R. Costa, V. Roda, J. Carroquino, L. Valiño, C. Ocampo-Martínez and M. Serra. Modelling and operation strategy approaches for on-site hydrogen refuelling stations. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 52: 49-64, 2024.

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  • A. Molavi, M. Serra and A.P. Husar. Improved supervisory controller design for a fuel cell hybrid electric vehicle. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 73(4): 4918-4933, 2024.

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