Alberto Padoan was born in Ferrara, Italy, in 1989. He received the Laurea Magistrale degree (M.Sc. equivalent) cum laudein automation engineering from the University of Padova, Italy, in 2013. He then joined the Control and Power Group as Ph.D. student in the Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department Department, at Imperial College London, under the supervision of Alessandro Astolfi. Since October 2017, Alberto is a Research Associate in the Control Group, Department of Engineering, at the University of Cambridge.

Alberto is currently a Research Assistant in the Control Group, Department of Engineering, at the University of Cambridge.