PERSONAL
Born October 24, 1954 in Pitigliano (Grosseto)
Italian Citizen
married – 1 daughter
EDUCATION
University of Rome – Italy
1980 Master Degree in Nuclear Engineering, received in March 1980, thesis entitled: Void Fraction Measurements in Steam-Water Mixtures using a Thermal Neutrons Transmission Technique
EXPERIENCE
2017- President, National Energy Technology Cluster,
2016-2020 Member, Italian Delegation for the Energy Program Funds at the European Commission, Horizon 2020 Programme, Configuration “Secure, Clean and Efficient Energy” (nominated by the Italian Ministry for Research)
2015-2020 Head, Energy Technologies Department of ENEA
2013- President of SIET S.p.A.
2010-2015 Director of the Division of Advanced Technologies for Energy and Industry of ENEA
1997–2010 Director of the Institute of Thermal-Fluid Dynamics of ENEA
1994-1997 Head of Heat Transfer Division, Engineering Branch, Energy Department, of ENEA
1991-1994 Head of the Thermal Process Engineering Division of ENEA (now Board for the New Technologies, the Energy and the Environment)
1984-1990 Head of the Heat Transfer Laboratory of ENEA
1981–2020 Employee of ENEA (- former CNEN – National Committee for Nuclear Energy and Alternative Energy)
1980-1981 Fellowship at CNEN (National Committee for Nuclear Energy) on Two-phase critical flows during blowdown from pressure vessels
2008-2015 Contract Professor of Thermal-Fluid Dynamics, University Guglielmo Marconi
2003-2015 Contract Professor, 2nd level Master in Safety and Protection – University of Rome “La Sapienza”
1991-1998 Contract Professor of Experimental Thermal Hydraulics at the University of Bologna, Faculty of Nuclear Engineering.
1990-2003 Contract Professor of Thermo-Fluid-Dynamics and Chemistry in Accidents at the Post-Graduate School in Industrial Safety and Protection – University of Rome
2014-2018 Since February 2014, has received the National Scientific Qualification for Full ProfessorMember of the Italian Delegation for the Energy Program Funds at the European Commission, Horizon 2020 Programme, Configuration “Secure, Clean and Efficient Energy” (nominated by the Italian Ministry for Research)
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY
Scientific Societies (Commitments)
Member, Board for The Nukiyama Memorial Award 2012, 2014International Centre for Heat and Mass Transfer Fellowship Award 2009
Member, European Academy of Sciences and Arts, 2008-
Honorary Chair, European Two-Phase Flow Group, 2005-
President, UIT, Italian Union of Thermal-Fluid Dynamics, 2005-2010
Member, Governing Board for the International Conference of Multiphase Flows, 2004-2010
FY.2003 Award from the Japanese Society of Multiphase Flow, 2003
Member, Executive Committee of the International Centre for Heat and Mass Transfer, 2002-2014
President, Assembly of World Conferences on Experimental Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics, 2001-2009
Member, Committee of International Heat Pipe Conferences, 2001-2005
Member, Honours and Awards Committee of the International Centre for Heat and Mass Transfer, 2001-2005
Member, Steering Committee EMSI, European Multiphase Systems Institute, 2000-2004
Coordinator, Project Microscale Heat Transfer in EMSI, 2000-2004
Secretary General, UIT, Italian Union of Thermal-Fluid Dynamics, 1998-2004
Member, Steering Committee, Multiphase Flow Branch, ANIMP, 1997-2006
President, EUROTHERM Committee, 1996-2002
Vice-President, Assembly of World Conferences on Experimental Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics, 1997-2001
Member, International Multiphase Flow Award Committee, 1996 – 2008
Member, Young Scientists EUROTHERM Prize Committee 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008
Journals (Editorial Commitments)
Associate Editor, International Journal of Microscaleand NanoscaleThermal and Fluid Transport Phenomena, 2009-
Editor-in-Chief, Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science, 2008-2015
Science and Engineering Editor, Thermopedia, Nano- and Micro-Channels, Begell House, 2008–2015
Associate Editor, Heat Exchangers Design Handbook, Begell House, 2005-2015
Associate Editor, Nanoscale and Microscale Thermophysical Engineering, 2004-2015
Associate Editor, Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science, 2002-2008
Member, International Advisory Board, Transactions of the Institute of Fluid-Flow Machinery, 2001-2007
Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Thermal Science, 2001-
Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Engineering Thermophysics 2001-
Member, Editorial Advisory Board, International Journal Heat & Fluid Flow, 2001-2015
Associate Editor, International Journal of Thermal Sciences, 1999-2015
Member, Editorial Advisory Board, International Journal of Multiphase Flow, 1997-
Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Archives of Thermodynamics, 1997-
Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Revue Generale de Thermique, 1997-99
Associate Editor, International Journal of Heat and Technology, 1994-2015
Member of the Steering Committee of the International Journal of Heat and Technology, 1984-1993
Frequent reviewer of articles for the ASME Journal of Heat Transfer, International Journal of Multiphase Flow, Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science, Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineers, International Journal of Heat and Technology, Nuclear Engineering & Design, International Journal of Thermal Sciences, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer, Multiphase Science & Technology, and for many international conferences, and frequent evaluator of funding projects.
Conferences (Chairs, Scientific Committees, Invited papers, etc.) & Seminars
Co-Chairman, 7th European-Japanese Two-Phase Flow Group Meeting, Zermatt, 11-15 October 2015
Co-Chair, ASME-ATI-UIT 2015 Conference on Thermal Energy Systems: Production, Storage, Utilization and the Environment, Naples, 17-20 May, 2015
Member, International Scientific Committee, 9th International Conference on Boiling Heat Transfer and Condensation, Boulder (Colorado), 26-30 April 2015
Member, Scientific Committee, 4th European Conference on Microfluidics, Limerick, 10-12 December 2012
Member, International Scientific Committee, 11th International Conference on Flow Dynamics, Sendai, 8-10 October 2014
Member, Scientific Committee, Nineth International Symposium on Two-Phase Flow Systems for Ground and Space Applications, Baltimore, 22-26 September 2014
Keynote Lecture, Two-Phase Flow Heat Transfer in Microchannels, 13th International Conference on Multiphase Flow in Industrial Plants, Sestri Levante (Genova), 17-19 September 2014
Lecturer, UIT Summer School on Micro/Nano Scale Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow, Certosa di Pontignano, 8-13 September 2014
Member, International Scientific Committee, 4th Micro and Nano Flows Conference, London, 7-10 September 2014
Member, International Scientific Committee, International Heat Transfer Conference 2014, Kyoto, 10-15 August 2014
Member, Scientific Committee, 10th International Conference on Diffusion in Solids and Liquids – DSL-2014, Paris, 23-27 June 2014
Member, Organizing Committee, 5th International Conference on Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow in Microscale, Marseille, 22-25 April 2014
Member, Scientific Committee, Eighth International Symposium on Two-Phase Flow Systems for Ground and Space Applications, Bremen, 16-19 September 2013
Director, UIT Summer School on Thermal Fluid Dynamics of Two-Phase Systems, Certosa di Pontignano, 10-14 September 2013
Member, Scientific Committee, 9th International Conference on Diffusion in Solids and Liquids – DSL-2013, Madrid, 24-28 June 2013
Member, Scientific Committee, ExHFT-8, 8th World Conference on Experimental Heat Transfer, Fluid Dynamics and Thermodynamics, Lisbon, 16-20 June 2013
Member, International Scientific Committee, International Conference on Multiphase Flow 2013, Jeju, 26-31 May 2013
Member, Scientific Committee, 3rd European Conference on Microfluidics, Heidelberg, 3-5 December 2012
Lecturer, Short Course ‘Boiling Heat Transfer and Boiling Equipment’, TechTravel, EPFL, Lausanne, 8-12 October 2012
Co-Chairman, 6th European-Japanese Two-Phase Flow Group Meeting, Kumamoto, 24-28 September 2012
Member, Scientific Committee, Seventh International Symposium on Two-Phase Flow Systems for Ground and Space Applications, Beijing, 17-22 September 2012
Member, Scientific Committee, 6th European Conference on Thermal Sciences, Poitiers, 4-7 September 2012
Lecturer, Short Course ‘Fundamentals of Microscale Heat Transfer: Boiling, Condensation, Single- and Two-Phase Flow’, HTRI, EPFL, Lausanne, 11-15 June 2012
Co-Chairman, 8th ECI International Conference on Boiling Heat Transfer and Condensation, Lausanne, 3-7 June 2012
Lecturer, Short Course ‘Boiling Heat Transfer and Boiling Equipment’, HTRI, EPFL, Darmstadt, 19-23 September 2011
Conference Co-Chair, Sixth International Conference on Two-Phase Systems for Ground and Space Applications, Cava dei Tirreni, 25-28 September 2011
Conference Co-Chair, 4th International Conference on Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow in Microscale, Fukuoka, 4-9 September 2011
Scientific Committee Conferece Chair, 6th International Conference on Transport Phenomena in Multiphase Systems, Ryn, 28 June – 2 July 2011
Keynote Lecture, Single- and Two-Phase Flow Heat Transfer in Microchannels: Scaling, Transition, Stability, XIX UIT Heat Transfer Conference, Turin, 20-22 June 2011
Lecturer, 2011 ‘Microscale Heat Transfer Summer School’, EPFL, Lausanne, 6-10 June 2011
Co-Chair, EUROTHERM Seminar on Gravitational Effects on Liquid-Vapor Phase Change, Presqu’île de Giens – Hyères, 17-21 April 2011
Examiner, Ecole Polytechnic Federal de Lausanne, PhD dissertation R. Da Silva, Experimental two-phase flow tests and flow visualization on U-bends, Lausanne, 6 April 2011
Faculty opponent, KTH Stockholm, PhD dissertation R. Ali, Phase Change Phenomena During Fluid Flow in Microchannels, Stockholm, 17 December 2010
Member, Scientific Committee, 2nd European Conference on Microfluidics, Toulouse, 8-10 December 2010
Examiner, Technical University of Eindhoven, PhD dissertation N. Clerx, Experimental study of direct contact condensation of steam in turbulent duct flow, Eindhoven, 7 December 2010
Keynote Lecture, Single- and Two-Phase Flow Heat Transfer in Microchannels, 5th International Symposium on Advanced Science and Technology in Experimental Mechanics, Kyoto, 4-7 November 2010
Invited speaker, Single- and Two-Phase Flow Heat Transfer in Microchannels, 7th International Conference on Flow Dynamics, Sendai, 1-3 November 2010
Lecturer, Short Course ‘Boiling Heat Transfer and Boiling Equipment’, HTRI, EPFL, Lausanne, 11-15 October 2010
Keynote Lecture, Microscale Heat Transfer in Single- and Two-Phase Flows, 16th International Workshop on Thermal investigations of ICs and Systems, Barcelona, 6-8 October 2010
Member, International Scientific Committee, International Heat Transfer Conference 2010, Washington, 8-13 August 2010
Lecturer, Short Course ‘Fundamentals of Microscale Heat Transfer: Boiling, Condensation, Single- and Two-Phase Flow’, HTRI, EPFL, Lausanne, 7-11 June 2010
Member, Scientific Committee, Seventh International Conference on Multiphase Flow, Tampa, 30 May – 4 June 2010
Examiner, Ecole Polytechnic Federal de Lausanne, PhD dissertation C.L. Ong, Macro-to-Microscale Transition in Two-Phase Flow and Evaporation, Lausanne, 18 March 2010
Invited speaker, Flow Boiling Heat Transfer in Microgravity, ESA Parabolic Flight Symposium, Noordwijk, 18-19 November 2009
Invited speaker, Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer in Single- and Two-Phase Flow, Microfluidics & Microheat, Technology Awareness: 2nd Industrial Seminar, Eindhoven, 11 November 2009
Lecturer, Short Course ‘Boiling Heat Transfer and Boiling Equipment’, HTRI, Technical University of Darmstadt, 5-9 October 2009
Chairman, 5th European-Japanese Two-Phase Flow Group Meeting, Spoleto, 21-25 September 2009
Keynote Lecture, Microscale Heat Transfer in Single- and Two-Phase Flows: Scaling, Stability, Transition, 6th International Conference on Turbulence, Heat and Mass Transfer, Rome, 14-17 September 2009
Keynote Lecture, Single and Two-Phase Flow Heat Transfer in Micropipes, 5th International Conference on Diffusion in Solids and Liquids (DSL 2009), Rome, 24-26 June 2009
Lecturer, Short Course ‘Fundamentals of Microscale Heat Transfer: Boiling, Condensation, Single- and Two-Phase Flow’, HTRI, EPFL, Lausanne, 25-29 May 2009
Keynote Lecture, Flow Boiling Heat Transfer in Microgravity, ECI International Conference on Boiling Heat Transfer, Florianopolis, 3-7 May 2009
Examiner, Univeriste’ Pierre et Marie Curie, Habilitation thesis M.-C. Duluc, Contribution à l’analyse des transfert en écoulements avec et sans changement de phase”, Paris, 26 January 2009
Member, Scientific Committee, 1st European Conference on Microfluidics, Bologna, 10-12 December 2008
Examiner, Ecole Polytechnic Federal de Lausanne, PhD dissertation J.E. Park, Critical heat flux in multi-microchannel copper elements with low pressure refrigerants, Lausanne, 8 October 2008
Lecturer, Short Course ‘Boiling Heat Transfer and Boiling Equipment’, HTRI, EPFL, Lausanne, 6-10 October 2008
Chairman, 3rd ECI International Conference on Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow in Microscale, Whistler, Canada, 22-26 September 2008
Co-chairman, Scientific Committee, 5th International Conference on Transport Phenomena in Multiphase Systems, Byalistok, Poland, 30 June – 3 July, 2008
Plenary Distinguished Lecture, Flow Boiling Heat Transfer in Microgravity: Recent Progress, 5th International Conference on Transport Phenomena in Multiphase Systems, Byalistok, Poland, 30 June – 3 July, 2008
Lecturer, Short Course ‘Fundamentals of Microscale Heat Transfer: Boiling, Condensation, Single- and Two-Phase Flow’, HTRI, EPFL, Lausanne, 2-6 June 2008
Keynote Lecture, Single- and Two-Phase Flow Heat Transfer in Micropipes, 5th EUROTHERM Conference on Thermal Sciences, Eindhoven, 17-20 May 2008
Seminar, on Single- and Two-Phase Flow Heat Transfer in Microscale, at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Florianopolis, 30 April 2008
Keynote Lecture, Flow Boiling in Microgravity, EBECEM 2008 – 1º Encontro Brasileiro sobre Ebulição, Condensação e Escoamento Multifásico Líquido-Gás, Florianópolis, 28-29 April 2008
Keynote Lecture, Flow Boiling Heat Transfer in Microgravity: Recent Results, 2nd International Topical Team Workshop on Two-phase Systems for Ground and Space Applications, Kyoto, 26-28 October 2007
Invited Lecture, Quenching Experiments in Microgravity, 3rd International Symposium on Physical Sciences in Space, ISPS2007, Nara, 22-26 October 2007
Lecturer, Short Course ‘Boiling Heat Transfer and Boiling Equipment’, HTRI, University of Pisa, 8-12 October 2007
Lecturer, Short Course ‘Fundamentals of Microscale Heat Transfer: Boiling, Condensation, Single- and Two-Phase Flow’, HTRI, EPFL, Lausanne, 4-8 June 2007
Lecturer, Short Course ‘Fundamentals of Microscale Heat Transfer: Boiling, Condensation, Single- and Two-Phase Flow’, HTRI, Dallas, 24-27 January 2007
Seminar, on Review of Flow Boiling Heat Transfer in Microgravity, at UTA, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, USA, 26 January 2007
Invited Lecture, Flow Boiling Heat Transfer under Microgravity, International Seminar in Honour of Prof. Akimi Serizawa, The Westin Hotel Miyako, Kyoto, 30 September 2006
Lecturer, Short Course ‘Boiling Heat Transfer and Boiling Equipment’, TUD, Darmstadt, 28-31 August 2006
Invited Lecture, Flow Boiling Heat Transfer in Microgravity, 13th International Heat Transfer Conference, Sydney, 13-18 August 2006
Co-chairman, 4th International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels and Minichannels, Limerick, Ireland, June 19-21, 2006
Lecturer, Short Course Fundamentals of Microscale Heat Transfer: Boiling, Condensation, Single- and Two-Phase Flow, HTRI, EPFL, Lausanne, 12-16 June 2006
Seminar, on Visualization of Critical Heat Flux in Subcooled Flow Boiling, at PSI, Villigen, 9 June 2006
Chairman, 6th International Conference on Boiling, Spoleto, 7-12 May 2006
Member, Technical Program Committee, Eleventh International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Reactor Thermal Hydraulics (NURETH-11), Avignon, 2-6 October 2005
Chairman, International Conference on Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow in Microscale, Barga, 25-30 September 2005
Lecturer, Short Course on Boiling Heat Transfer and Boiling Equipment, CISM, Udine, 19-23 September 2005
Rapporteur, University of Grenoble, PhD dissertation R. Baviere, Etude de l’Hydrodynamique et des Transfert de Chaleur dans des Microcanaux, Grenoble, 12 September 2005
Invited Lecture, Single-Phase Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow in Micropipes, Euromech Colloquium 472 on Microfluidics and Transfer, Grenoble, 6-8 September 2005
Invited Lecture, Flow Boiling Heat Transfer in Microgravity, 8th Australasian Heat & Mass Transfer Conference (8AHMTC), Perth, 26-29 July 2005
Member, International Scientific Committee, HEAT’2005, 4th International Conference on Transport Phenomena in Multiphase Systems, 26-30 June 2005, Gdansk, Poland
Co-chairman, 3rd International Conference on Microchannels and Minichannels, Toronto, June 13-15, 2004
Seminar, on Critical Heat Flux at the University of Kobe, 25 April 2005
Lecture, on Flow Boiling Heat Transfer in Microgravity at JSMF International Lecture Course, TEPCO, Kawasaki, 23 April 2005
Lecture, on Single-Phase Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow in Micropipes at Workshop on Micro/Nano Scale Thermal/Fluids Engineering for Biotechnology and Energy Conversion Applications, COE Program, University of Tokyo, 22 April 2005
Lecture, on Boiling Heat Transfer in Microgravity at Workshop on Micro/Nano Scale Thermal/Fluids Engineering for Biotechnology and Energy Conversion Applications, COE Program, University of Tokyo, 22 April 2005
Member, International Scientific Committee, ExHFT-6, 6th World Conference on Experimental Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics, Matsushima, JAPAN, 17-21 April 2005
Member, International Scientific Committee, Heat Transfer in Components and Systems for Sustainable Energy Technologies: Heat-SET 2005, Grenoble, 5-7 April 2005
Seminar, on Bubble Rising Velocity at the Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, 2 December 2004
Seminar, on Forced Convective Boiling at the University of Bologna, 30 November 2004
Chairman, 3rd International Symposium on Two-Phase Flow Modelling and Experimentation, Pisa, 22-24 September 2004
Member, International Scientific Committee, MECT-04, International Symposium on Micro/Nanoscale Energy Conversion and Transport, Seoul, Korea, 8-13 August, 2004
Member, International Advisory Committee, 3rd International Conference on Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics, Cape Town, South Africa, 21-24 June 2004
Co-chairman, 2nd International Conference on Mini and Micro-Channels, Rochester, NY, US, June 17-19, 2004
Member, International Organizing Committee, 6th International Symposium on Heat Transfer, Beijing, China, June 15-19, 2004
Member, Organizing Committee, 5th International Conference on Multiphase Flow, ICMF 2004, Yokohama, 31 May – 3 June 2004
Faculty opponent, KTH Stockholm, PhD dissertation R. Khodabandeh Heat Transfer and Pressure Drop in a Thermosyphon Loop for Cooling of Electronic Components, Stockholm, 28 May 2004
Seminar, on Forced Convective Boiling at the University of Parma, 17 May 2004
Seminar, on Thermal-Hydraulics Aspect of Refrigerants in Micropipes at the University of Parma, 17 May 2004
Seminar on Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow in Microchannels at the University of Ljubljana, March 24, 2003
Session Organizer, Boiling and Condensation Heat Transfer, 10th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Reactor Thermal-Hydraulics, NURETH-10, Seoul, 5-9 October 2003
Member, Scientific and Organizing Committee, 4th International Conference on Compact Heat Exchangers and Enhancement Technology for the Process Industries, Crete Island, 29 September – 3 October 2003
Chairman, 3rd European-Japanese Two-Phase Flow Group Meeting, Certosa di Pontignano, Siena, 21-27 September 2003
Member, Scientific Committee, EUROTHERM Seminar 75, Microscale Heat Transfer 2, Reims, 8-10 July 2003
Co-Chairman, 5th International Conference on Boiling Heat Transfer, Montego Bay, Jamaica, 4-8 May 2003
Co-Chairman, 1st International Conference on Mini- and Microchannels, Rochester, 24-25 April 2003
Member, International Scientific Committee, 2003 International Conference on Energy and Environment, Shanghai, 22-24 May 2003
Member, Scientific Committee, EUROTHERM Seminar 72, Thermodynamics, Heat and Mass Transfer of Refrigeration Machines and Heat Pumps, Valencia, 31 March – 2 April 2003
Member, Scientific Committee, 8th International Conference on Multiphase Flow in Industrial Plants, Alba, 18-20 September 2002
Lecturer, Short Course on Modeling and Control of Two-Phase Flow Phenomena, CISM, Udine, 9-13 September 2002
Chairman, International Conference on Compact Heat Exchangers, Grenoble, 24 August 2002
Invited Lecture, Thermal-Hydraulic Characteristics of Single-Phase Flow in Capillary Tubes, International Conference on Compact Heat Exchangers, Grenoble, 24 August 2002
Member, Scientific Committee, 3rd International Conference on Transport Phenomena in Multiphase Systems, Kielce, 24-27 June 2002
Invited Lecture, Modeling of Critical Heat Flux in Subcooled Flow Boiling, 40th European Two-Phase Flow Group Meeting, Stockholm, 10-13 June 2002
Seminar, on Forced Convective Boiling at the University of Parma, 4 June 2002
Seminar, on Thermal-Hydraulics Aspect of Refrigerants in Micropipes at the University of Parma, 4 June 2002
Member, International Scientific Committee, International Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems, Dubrovnik, 2-7 June 2002
Member, International Scientific Committee, International Symposium on Micro/Nanoscale Energy Conversion and Transport, Antalya, 14-19 April 2002
Member, International Scientific Committee, INFUB-6, 6th European Conference on Industrial Furnaces and Boiler, Estoril-Lisbon, 2-5 April 2002
Invited Lecture, Microscale Heat Transfer, AICARR Conference on Refrigeration, Milan, 8 March 2002
Seminar, on Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow in Micropipes at the University of Tokyo, Hongo Campus, 30 November 2001
Invited Lecture, CHF in Subcooled Flow Boiling – Parametric Trends & Modelling, International Workshop on Advanced Space Missions and Related Thermal Technology, Tokyo, 29 November 2001
Chairman, Scientific and Organizing Committee, 5th World Conferences on Experimental Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics, Thessaloniki, 24-28 September 2001
Member, Organizing Committee, 3rd International Symposyum on Measurement Techniques for Multiphase Flow, Fukui, 1-3 August 2001
Member, Scientific and Organizing Committee, International Conference on Compact Heat Exchangers and Enhancement Technology for the Process Industries, Davos, June 10-15 2001
Member, International Organizing Committee, ICMF-2001, 4th International Conference on Multiphase Flow, New Orleans, 27 May-1 June 2001
Guest Lecturer, Ecole Politechnique Federal Lausanne, Heat and Mass Transfer Laboratory, Losanna, 20-24 Novembre 2000
Member, Organizing Committee, MFTP-2000, International Symposium on Multiphase Flow and Transport Phenomena, Antalya, 5-10 November 2000
Chairman, Heat Transfer and Transport Phenomena in Microsystems, Banff, 15-20 October 2000
Co-Chairman, 2nd Japanese-European Two-Phase Flow Group Meeting, Tsukuba, 24-28 September 2001
Keynote Lecture, Visual Investigation of Boiling Crisis in Subcooled Flow Boiling, 2nd Japanese-European Two-Phase Flow Group Meeting, Tsukuba, 24-28 September 2001
Keynote Lecture, Recent Developments in Applied Thermal-Fluid Dynamics, 55th ATI National Heat Transfer Conference, Matera, 18-24 September 2000
Member, Organizing Committee, 7th International Conference on Multiphase Flow in Industrial Plants, ANIMP, Bologna, 14-16 September 2000
Invited lecture, Visual Investigation of Boiling Phenomena in CHF Subcooled Flow Boiling, 18th UIT National Heat Transfer Conference, Como, 29-31 June 2000
Seminar, CHF in Subcooled Flow Boiling, at the University of Ferrara, Engineering Department, May 22, 2000
Co-chairman, Boiling-2000, 4th International Boiling Conference, Anchorage, April 30 – May 5 2000
Member, International Scientific Committee, INFUB-5, 5th European Conference on Industrial Furnaces and Boiler, Espinho-Porto, 11-14 April 2000
Invited speaker, Thermal Hydraulic Problems in High Heat Flux Components of Fusion Reactors, TEPCO Symposium on Energy & Environment: Technological Challenges for the Future, Yokohama, 25-28 November 1999
Member, Technical Program Committee, 9th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Reactor Thermal Hydraulics, San Francisco, 3-8 October 1999
Lecturer, 2^ UIT Summer School on Two-Phase Thermal-Fluid Dynamics, Certosa di Pontignano, Siena, 30 August – 3 September 1999
Member, International Scientific Committee, International Symposium on Multiphase Flow and Heat Transfer, Xi’an, China, 22-24 August 1999
Member, Scientific and Organizing Committee, Compact Heat Exchangers and Enhancement Technology for the Process Industry, Banff, 18-23 July 1999
Chairman, 2nd International Symposium on Two-Phase Flow Modelling and Experimentation, Pisa, 23-25 May 1999
Co-chairman, EUROTHERM Seminar n. 62, Heat Transfer in Evaporation and Condensation – Application to Industrial and Environmental Processes, Grenoble, 17-18 November 1998
Seminar on “Recent Developments in Boiling Heat Transfer” at the Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Technik und Umwelt, Institute fŸr Angewandte Thermo-und Fluiddynamik, Karlsruhe, 27 October, 1998
Member, Scientific Committee, 6th International Conference on Multiphase Flow in Industrial Plants, ANIMP, Milan, 24-25 September 1998
Member, International Organizing Committee, 8th International Symposium on Flow Visualization, Sorrento, 1-4 September 1998
Seminar on “Thermal-Hydraulics for Nuclear Reactor Safety” at KAERI, Thermal Hydraulics Safety Research Team, Taejon, 28 August, 1998
Keynote lecturer, “Critical Heat Flux in Subcooled Flow Boiling”, 11th International Heat Transfer Conference, Kyongju, 23-28 August, 1998
Member, Scientific Committee, EUROTHERM Seminar n. 57, Microscale Heat Transfer, Poitiers, 8-10 July 1998
Member, International Organizing Committee, International Conference and Exhibit on Heat Exchangers for Sustainable Development, Lisbon, 15-18 June 1998
Member, International Organizing Committee, 3rd International Conference on Multiphase Flow ICMF’98, Lyon, 8-12 June 1998
Member, Scientific Committee, Heat Transfer in Radiating and Combusting Systems 3 – EUROTHERM Seminar 56, Athens, 1-3 April 1998
Member, Scientific Committee, ISMF ’97, International Symposium on Multiphase Flow, Beijing, 5-7 October 1997
Member, Organising Committee, Workshop Varna’97 on Transport Phenomena in Two Phase Flows, Varna, 12-17 September 1997
Member, Programme Committee, OECD/CSNI, Specialsts’ Meeting on Advanced Instrumentation and Measurement Techniques, Santa Barbara, 17-20 March 1997
Member, Scientific Committee, XV National Heat Transfer Conference UIT, Turin, 19-20 June 1997
Member, Organizing Committee, Engineering Foundation Conference on Compact Heat Exchangers for the Process Industries, Snowbird, 22-26 June 1997
Member, Organizing Committee, Engineering Foundation Conference on Understanding Heat Exchanger Fouling and its Mitigation, Il Ciocco (Pisa), 11-16 May 1997
Member, International Scientific Committee, International Symposium on Liquid-Liquid Phase Flow and Transport Phenomena, Antalya, 3-7 November 1997
Member, Symposium Scientific Advisory Committee, International Symposium on The Physics of Heat Transfer in Boiling and Condensation, Moscow, 21-24 May 1997, and Invited lecture, ” Modelling of Critical Heat Flux in Subcooled Flow Boiling”
Co-Chairman, International Conference on Convective Flow and Pool Boiling, Engineering Foundation, Irsee, 18-23 May 1997, and Invited lecture, ” Modelling of Critical Heat Flux in Subcooled Flow Boiling”
Scientific Secretary, 4th World Conference on Experimental Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics, Bruxelles, 2-6 June 1997, and Invited lecture, ” Vaporization in Compact Heat Exchangers”
Invited lecturer, “Forced Convective Boiling of Refrigerant Binary Mixtures”, 4th International Symposium on Heat Transfer, Beijing, 7-11 October 1996
Member, Scientific Committee of the 5th International Conference on Multiphase Flow ANIMP, and Chairman, Session on “Measurement Techniques”, Amalfi, 26-27 September 1996
Editor, UIT Newsletter, 1995-
Member, Technical-Scientific Committee Colloque E3 “Energie et Environment”, Marseille, 5-7 December 1995
Member, Scientific Committee of the 13th UIT National Heat Transfer Conference, Bologna, 22-23 June, 1995
Chairman, Session on “Nuclear Safety”, European Two-Phase Flow Group Meeting, Den Bosch, 30 May – 2 June 1995
Chairman, International Symposium on Two-Phase Flow and Heat Transfer Modelling and Experimentation, Rome, 9-11 October 1995
Chairman, Organizing Committee of 2nd European Thermal-Sciences and 14th UIT National Heat Transfer Conference, Rome, 29-31 May, 1996, and Keynote lecture, “Critical Heat Flux in Subcooled Flow Boiling: Experimentation and Modelling”
Chairman, Session on “Saturated Flow Boiling”, International Conference on Convective Flow Boiling, Banff, April 30-June 4, 1995
Member, International Organizing Committee and Poster Session Reviewer on “Phase Change” of the 2nd International Conference on Multiphase Flow, ICMF ’95-Kyoto, Kyoto, April 3-7, 1995
Member, International Scientific Committee, 3rd European Conference on Industrial Furnaces and Boilers, Lisbon, 18-21 April 1995
Member, Technical Program Committee and Session Organizer of NURETH-7, Nuclear Reactor Thermal-Hydraulics, Saratoga Springs, 10-15 September, 1995
Chairman, Session on “Heat Transfer”, European Two-Phase Flow Group Meeting,Piacenza, 6-8 June 1994
Chairman, Session on “Heat Transfer in Nuclear and Conventional Heat and Power Generation Systems”, 10th International Heat Transfer Conference Brighon, 14-18 August 1994
Invited speaker, Bucharest Heat Transfer and Thermodynamics Workshop, Bucharest, June 30-July 2, 1994
Invited speaker, International Symposium/Workshop on Boiling, Condensation and Two-Phase Flow Heat Transfer, Visakhapatnam, January 10-11, 1994
Lecturer, Unesco Energy Training Programme, Energy Engineering, Nuclear Power Plants, Lesson n. 7, Design Limitations of Water Cooled Reactors
Member, International Scientific Committee of the 3rd International Symposium on Multiphase Flow and Heat Transfer, Xi’an, 19-21 September, 1994
Member, Organizing Committee of EUROTHERM Seminar n. 37, Heat Transfer in Radiating and Combusting Systems-2, Saluggia, 5-7 October, 1994
Member, Scientific Committee “First ISHMT-ASME Heat and Mass Transfer Conference and Twelfth National Heat and Mass Transfer Conference”, Bombay, India, 5-7 January 1994
Member, Scientific Committee FLOWERS’S 94, Florence World Energy Research Symposium, Florence, July 6-8, 1994
Chairman-Session Organizer, Session on “Boiling Heat Transfer and Boiling Crisis”, and Member, Technical Committee of NURETH-6, Nuclear Reactor Thermal-Hydraulics, Grenoble, 5-8 October, 1993
Seminar on “Recent Achievements in the Thermal Hydraulics of High Heat Flux Components in Fusion Reactors” at the Technical University of Braunschweig, Institute fŸr Raumflug- und Reaktortechnik, Braunschweig, 10 June, 1993
Chairman, Session on “Critical Heat Flux”, European Two-Phase Flow Group Meeting, Hannover, 7-9 June, 1993
Member, Scientific Committee of the ICHMT International Symposium on New Developments in Heat Exchangers, Lisbon, 6-10 September, 1993
Lead Scientist, 3rd World Conference on Experimental Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics, Honolulu, October 31-November 5, 1993
General Chairman, Specialists’ Workshop on High Heat Flux Components Thermal-Hydraulics, Rome, 9-11 September, 1992
Member, Organizing Committtee and Chairman, Session on “Natural Convection”, 1st European Thermal-Sciences and 3rd UK National Heat Transfer Conference, Birmingham, 16-18 September, 1992
Chairman, Session on “Two-Phase Flow in Complex Geometries”, European Two-Phase Flow Group Meeting, Stockholm, 1-3 June, 1992
Invited lecturer, “Pool and Forced Convective Boiling of Binary Mixtures”, Pool & External Flow Boiling Conference, Santa Barbara, 22-27 March, 1992
Member, Scientific Committee, Keynote lecturer, “A Review of Recent Experiments and Predictive Aspects of Burnout at Very High Heat Fluxes”, and Chairman, Session on “CHF, Rewetting and Reactor Safety” and Session on “Condensation”, International Conference on Multiphase Flows ’91 – TSUKUBA, Tsukuba, 24-27 September, 1991
Lead Scientist, 2nd World Conference on Experimental Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics, Dubrovnik, 23-28 June, 1991
General Chairman, European Two-Phase Flow Group Meeting, Rome, 27-29 May, 1991
Member, Joint Working Group ISO/TC on “Flashing Liquids in Safety Devices”, 1990-1991
Member, Organizing Committe, Invited lecturer, “Direct Contact Condensation of Steam on Subcooled Water”, and Chairman, Session on “Thermal and Inertial Controlled Systems”, Phase-Interface Phenomena in Multiphase Flow, Dubrovnik, 14-18 May, 1990
Chairman, Session on “Boiling Crisis”, European Two-Phase Flow Group Meeting, Paris, 29 May-1 June, 1989
General Chairman, EUROTHERM Seminar n. 7 “Thermal Non-Equilibrium in Two-Phase Flows”, Rome, 23-24 March, 1989
Chairman, Session on “Boiling and Evaporative Heat Transfer”, 2nd International Symposium on Heat Transfer, Beijing, 9-11 August, 1988
Invited lecturer, “DNB during Flow Rate, Pressure and Power Transients in Heated Channels”, International Seminar on Transient Phenomena in Multiphase Flow, Dubrovnik, 24-30 May, 1987
Patents – Improvements relating to the turbulence promoters in subcooled water flow boiling under high-rate, forced-convection conditions, Patent n. 93830432.6
Books Edited
Proceedings EUROTHERM Seminar n. 7 Thermal Non-Equilibrium in Two-Phase Flows, Editor, Rome, 23-24 March, 1989, Edizioni ENEA
Proceedings International Symposium on Two-Phase Flow Modelling and Experimentation, Editor, Rome 9-11 October 1995, Edizioni ETS, Pisa
Proceedings 2nd European Thermal Sciences and 14th UIT National Heat Transfer Conference, Editor, Rome 29-31 May 1996, Edizioni ETS, Pisa
Proceedings 4th World Conference on Experimental Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics, Editor, Bruxelles 2-6 June 1997, Edizioni ETS, Pisa
Proceedings 2nd International Symposium on Two-Phase Flow Modelling and Experimentation, Editor, Pisa 23-26 May 1999, Edizioni ETS, Pisa
Handbook of Phase Change: Boiling and Condensation, Taylor and Francis, 1999 – Chapters:
- 17: CHF and Post-CHF Heat Transfer (17.1: CHF in Subcooled Flow Boiling – 17:2: CHF in Saturated Flow Boiling – 17:3: Post-CHF Heat Transfer)
- 18: Flow Boiling Augmentation (18.3: Augmentation of CHF and Post-CHF Heat Transfer)
Convective Flow and Pool Boiling, Associate Editor, Taylor and Francis, 1999 – Chapters:
Proceedings Boiling 2000: Phenomena and Emerging Applications, Associate Editor, Anchorage, April 30 – May 5, 2000, Begell House, New York
Proceedings 5th World Conference on Experimental Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics, Editor, Thessaloniki 24-28 September 2001, Edizioni ETS, Pisa
Proceedings International Conference on Compact Heat Exchanger, Editor, Grenoble 24 August 2002, Edizioni ETS, Pisa
HEDU Chapter 2.13 Heat Transfer & Fluid Flow in Microchannels, Editor, Begell House, New York, 2002
Proceedings 3rd International Symposium on Two-Phase Flow Modelling and Experimentation, Pisa, 22-25 September 2004, Edizioni ETS, Pisa
Heat Transfer & Fluid Flow in Microchannels, Editor, Begell House, New York, 2002
Thesis
– G.A. Liberanome
– G. Berti
– F. Di Giamberardino
– T. Setaro
– F. D’Annibale
– G. Focardi
– S. Abou Said
– G. Zummo
– A. Solimo
– R. Cifani
– M. Simoncini
– G. Ingu“
– A. Marocco
– L. Ottaviani
– B. Maselli
– D. Gallo Carrabba
– A. Chiaradia
PhD Thesis
– G. Zummo
– G. Guidi
– A. Iorizzo
– A. Chiaradia