FastCAP Fact: Modern wind turbines constantly check their power output and make automatic rotor blade adjustments to optimize performance in variable wind conditions. Because ultracapacitors are ideally suited to deliver quick and frequent bursts of power, and can perform reliably in harsh environments, they are an ideal emergency back up storage solution for wind turbine blade pitch adjustments.
Dr. Riccardo Signorelli
President and CEO
Dr. Signorelli completed his Ph.D. in 2009 at the MIT at the Laboratory for Electromagnetic and Electronic Systems,
where he spent six years co-designing and co-developing FastCAP's low-cost, high-energy and high-power density ultracapacitor. During his doctoral work,
Dr. Signorelli led and managed an interdepartmental team of postdoctoral associates, graduate and undergraduate students, and laboratory technicians
focused on the development of the nanotube enhanced ultracapacitor technology. Prior to joining MIT in 2003, Dr. Signorelli worked as a researcher at
GE Global Research, in Schenectady, NY, as an Engineer at Siemens AG in Erlangen, Germany, and at EXIDE Technology in Italy. Dr. Signorelli received his
Laurea cum Laude from the Polytechnic Institute of Milano and his Master of Science in Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 2002.
"Cultivating a healthy and happy company culture is important at FastCAP. We work every day toward not only transforming the energy storage market, but also to build a company where people look forward to coming to work, and take pride and ownership of what they create here. I firmly believe that there is a strong relationship between the health of a team and the amount of success a company can achieve."
Dr. John Cooley
Co-Founder and Director of Applications Engineering
Dr. Cooley co-founded FastCAP Systems in 2008 to commercialize FastCAP's breakthrough energy storage technology developed at MIT LEES. John holds five technical degrees from MIT - B.S. EE, B.S. Physics, M.Eng. EE, Electrical Engineer, and Ph.D. Dr. Cooley's Ph.D. thesis developed design-oriented analytical frameworks for building energy management systems and for multisource power systems in renewable energy applications. In 2007, John simultaneously won the MIT Master's Thesis Prize and the Masterworks Competition for his work on a retrofit demand-side energy management tool. In 2009, John became an MIT Martin Fellow for his work on sustainable energy research. John has published papers, as well as filed and been issued patents in the areas of sensing and instrumentation for building energy management, power processing for renewable energy sources, analog and linearized circuit analysis and design and also in education. Prior to joining FastCAP Systems, John worked as an Electrical Engineer at AAI Corp., Baltimore, MD and Medtronic Inc., Minneapolis, MN.
"We all share in the successes of others within the team here at FastCAP, which creates a light-hearted, non-competitive and collaborative environment unlike any other I've experienced in my professional career."
