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Florian Dorfler

Florian Dorfler

D-Index & Metrics

Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
70
Citations
24790
World Ranking
894
National Ranking
23

Florian Dorfler publication distribution in Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Florian Dorfler sits on this spectrum.

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34 publications 1,065+

This scientist: 271 publications — 50th percentile

50% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,065 publications or more.

Florian Dorfler D-index placement in Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Electronics and Electrical Engineering scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Florian Dorfler sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 111+

This scientist: 70 D-Index — 87th percentile

87% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 111 D-Index or more.

Overview

Florian Dorfler is affiliated with ETH Zurich in Switzerland and conducts research primarily in the field of engineering. The scientist's work focuses on multiple subfields including control and systems engineering, electrical and electronic engineering, statistical and nonlinear physics, management science and operations research, and artificial intelligence.

Dorfler's research encompasses a diverse range of topics. Key areas of work include:

  • Microgrid Control and Optimization
  • Advanced Control Systems Optimization
  • Control Systems and Identification
  • Fault Detection and Control Systems
  • Smart Grid Energy Management
  • Optimal Power Flow Distribution
  • Power System Optimization and Stability

Representative recent publications by Dorfler include:

  • "Bridging Direct and Indirect Data-Driven Control Formulations via Regularizations and Relaxations," 2022, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
  • "Frequency Stability of Synchronous Machines and Grid-Forming Power Converters," 2020, IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics
  • "Behavioral systems theory in data-driven analysis, signal processing, and control," 2021, Annual Reviews in Control
  • "H -Control of Grid-Connected Converters: Design, Objectives and Decentralized Stability Certificates," 2020, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid
  • "Data-Driven Continuous-Set Predictive Current Control for Synchronous Motor Drives," 2022, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Dorfler has collaborated regularly with several coauthors, including Saverio Bolognani, John Lygeros, Linbin Huang, Xiuqiang He, and Verena Häberle.

In terms of publication venues, Dorfler's work has appeared frequently in:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
  • IEEE Control Systems Letters
  • IFAC-PapersOnLine
  • Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich)

This extensive publication record and the range of topics reflect the scientist's engagement with topics critical to power systems, control theory, and system optimization within engineering.

Best Publications

  • Attack Detection and Identification in Cyber-Physical Systems

    Fabio Pasqualetti;Florian Dorfler;Francesco Bullo

  • A Survey of Distributed Optimization and Control Algorithms for Electric Power Systems

    Daniel K. Molzahn;Florian Dorfler;Henrik Sandberg;Steven H. Low

  • Synchronization in complex networks of phase oscillators: A survey

    Florian Dörfler;Francesco Bullo

  • Secondary Frequency and Voltage Control of Islanded Microgrids via Distributed Averaging

    John W. Simpson-Porco;Qobad Shafiee;Florian Dorfler;Juan C. Vasquez

  • Foundations and Challenges of Low-Inertia Systems (Invited Paper)

    Federico Milano;Florian Dorfler;Gabriela Hug;David J. Hill

  • Synchronization in complex oscillator networks and smart grids

    Florian Dörfler;Michael Chertkov;Francesco Bullo

  • Kron Reduction of Graphs With Applications to Electrical Networks

    F. Dorfler;F. Bullo

  • Synchronization and power sharing for droop-controlled inverters in islanded microgrids

    John W. Simpson-Porco;Florian DöRfler;Francesco Bullo

  • Synchronization and Transient Stability in Power Networks and Nonuniform Kuramoto Oscillators

    Florian Dörfler;Francesco Bullo

  • Breaking the Hierarchy: Distributed Control and Economic Optimality in Microgrids

    Florian Dorfler;John W. Simpson-Porco;Francesco Bullo

  • Data-Enabled Predictive Control: In the Shallows of the DeePC

    Jeremy Coulson;John Lygeros;Florian Dorfler

  • Control-Theoretic Methods for Cyberphysical Security: Geometric Principles for Optimal Cross-Layer Resilient Control Systems

    Fabio Pasqualetti;Florian Dorfler;Francesco Bullo

  • Optimal Placement of Virtual Inertia in Power Grids

    Bala Kameshwar Poolla;Saverio Bolognani;Florian Dorfler

  • On the Critical Coupling for Kuramoto Oscillators

    Florian Dörfler;Francesco Bullo

  • Breaking the Hierarchy: Distributed Control & Economic Optimality in Microgrids

    Florian Dörfler;John Simpson-Porco;Francesco Bullo

  • Frequency Stability of Synchronous Machines and Grid-Forming Power Converters

    Ali Tayyebi;Dominic GroB;Adolfo Anta;Friederich Kupzog

  • Placement and Implementation of Grid-Forming and Grid-Following Virtual Inertia and Fast Frequency Response

    Bala Kameshwar Poolla;Dominic Gros;Florian Dorfler

  • On the Secondary Control Architectures of AC Microgrids: An Overview

    Yousef Khayat;Josep M. Guerrero;Hassan Bevrani;Qobad Shafiee

  • Synthesizing Virtual Oscillators to Control Islanded Inverters

    Brian B. Johnson;Mohit Sinha;Nathan G. Ainsworth;Florian Dorfler

  • Cyber-physical attacks in power networks: Models, fundamental limitations and monitor design

    Fabio Pasqualetti;Florian Dorfler;Francesco Bullo

  • Sparsity-Promoting Optimal Wide-Area Control of Power Networks

    Florian Dorfler;Mihailo R. Jovanovic;Michael Chertkov;Francesco Bullo

Frequent Co-Authors

Francesco Bullo
Francesco Bullo University of California, Santa Barbara
Brian Johnson
Brian Johnson University of Washington
John Lygeros
John Lygeros ETH Zurich
Sairaj V. Dhople
Sairaj V. Dhople University of Minnesota
Fabio Pasqualetti
Fabio Pasqualetti University of California, Riverside
Gabriela Hug
Gabriela Hug ETH Zurich
Mihailo R. Jovanovic
Mihailo R. Jovanovic University of Southern California
Claudio De Persis
Claudio De Persis University of Groningen
Michael Chertkov
Michael Chertkov University of Arizona
Qobad Shafiee
Qobad Shafiee University of Kurdistan

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