Hobbies

Reading, swimming, photography

Expertise

• Turbomachinery
• Turbine
• Supersonic Turbine
• Fluid dynamics
• Organic Rankine cycle

Current Position

Post-doctoral researcher, Flow Physics and Technology

Projects

• ADONE: Adjoint-based Design Optimization for Next-Gen Rocket Engine Turbines
• REVEAL: Robust Design of SupErsonic Vanes OpErating with Non-ideAl FLows

Biography

Alessandro graduated in Mechanical Engineering at University of Naples Federico II in 2014. In January 2017 he completed his Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering for Energy and Environment at the same university presenting his work on the design of a turbocharger turbine featuring unconventional layout, carried out at Brunel University London.

In 2018 he received the Research Master Diploma from the von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics after attending the Research Master program in the turbomachinery department and working on high-pressure turbine tip-leakage flow heat transfer.

From 2018 he has been a Ph.D. candidate at Federico II University of Naples, where he has been carrying out research on design methods for unconventional turbines, such as supersonic turbines for organic Rankine cycles (ORC), as well as unsteady stator-rotor interaction in supersonic turbines.

Also, during his Ph.D., Alessandro spent a visiting period at Delft University of Technology, where he worked on ORC turbines.

Later on he was awarded a scholarship by the Knowledge Center on Organic Rankine Cycle technology for the project proposal “Robust Design of Supersonic Vanes Operating with Non-ideal Flows”.

After receiving the Ph.D. degree in 2022, Alessandro has joined the Propulsion and Power group, where he works as a post-doctoral researcher of the Flow Physics and Technology Department, conducting research on optimization methods for supersonic turbines for rocket propulsion.

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