Andrea Cioncolini

Biography

Dr. Andrea Cioncolini has been appointed Lecturer in Thermal-Hydraulics at the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering of the University of Manchester-UK, effective October 1st, 2013.

His area of research is thermal-fluid-nuclear, both experimental and computational, and his specialties are: micro- and macro-scale multiphase flow; boiling; evaporation; condensation; fluid systems transient analysis and nuclear systems transient/safety analysis.

He spent 5 and a half years as post-doctoral researcher in the Laboratory of Heat and Mass Transfer at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland (EPFL), which he joined after 2 years as Senior Engineer/Scientist at Westinghouse Electric Co., Science and Technology Department in Pittsburgh-PA, USA.

He received his Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy in 2005.