Alessio La Bella was born in Erice (TP), Italy, in 1992. He received the M.Sc. in Automation and Control engineering in 2015 from Politecnico di Milano, Italy. He received the Alta Scuola Politecnica Diploma and the M.Sc. in Mechatronics from Politecnico di Torino, Italy, in 2016. In January-October 2016, he worked as research assistant at Politecnico di Milano and in collaboration with RSE SpA - Ricerca Sistema Energetico, on the development of validated electrical simulators to assess the integration of renewable energy sources in small islands. Since November 2016, he has been enrolled as a Ph.D. student in Information Technology at Politecnico di Milano. In September-December 2018, he was visiting researcher at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland. His main research interests concern the design of optimization-based control algorithms for the efficient management of energy and electrical systems.