Prof. Dr. Annalisa Manera

Dr. Manera is Professor of Nuclear Systems and Multi-phase Flows Laboratory at ETH Zurich since July 2021. She is the recipient of the ANS Bal-Raj Sehgal Memorial Award (2022) and the US Department of Energy CASL Director’s award (2016). She is also a Fellow of the American Nuclear Society. Between 2011 and 2021 she was Professor in the Nuclear Engineering Department of the University of Michigan. At the University of Michigan and ETH-Zurich she has established a research program in nuclear systems thermal-hydraulics and is the co-director of the Experimental and Computational Multiphase Flow Laboratory (ECMF) and the High Resolution Imaging Lab. She holds a M.Sc. in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Pisa (110/110 summa cum laude) and a Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering from the Delft University of Technology.

Her research group focuses on:

- development of advanced, high-resolution experimental techniques for single-phase and multi-phase flows

- high-resolution experiments for physics discovery and validation of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) models

- development and application of CFD-based multi-scale and multi-physics high-fidelity computational tools

- advanced modeling and simulations of nuclear systems