Gian Paolo BERETTA
Curriculum (in english)
Gian Paolo BERETTA
Curriculum (in english)
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Dipartimento di Ingegneria Meccanica e
Industriale, Università di Brescia,
via Branze 38, 25123 Brescia.
Tel. +390303715568. Fax. +390303702448. Cell. +393498612568
Email:
gianpaolo.beretta@unibs.it
Born in Monza onApril
14, 1956.
Father of Nicolò
(1989) and Federica (1991).
Married in second
wedding (2011) with Giulia Invernizzi.
1979: Laurea in Ingegneria Nucleare,
Politecnico di Milano
1980: Master of
Science in Mechanical Engineering, MIT
1982:
Doctor of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1978-1981: Research
Assistant, Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT
1981-1983: Postdoctoral Fellow, Progetto
Finalizzato Energetica, CNR, Roma
1981-1984: Assistant
Professor of Mechanical Engineering, MIT
1983-1987: Assistant Professor, Dipartimento
di Energetica, Politecnico di Milano
1984-1986: C.R.
Soderberg Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, MIT
1987-1994: Associate
Professor of Thermal and Fluid Sciences, Università di Brescia
1994-2019:
Full Professor of Thermal and Fluid Sciences, Università di Brescia
current: Professor Emeritus (since Dec. 27, 2019)
1986-1987: Visiting
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT
1989-1990: Adjunct Professor, Corso di
Energetica, Politecnico di Milano
1991-1992: Visiting
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT
2007-2008 (Fall term):
Visiting Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT
2008-2009 (Sett-Ott):
Visiting Professor, Dept. of Chemistry, NTNU, Trondheim, Norvegia
2008-2009 (Nov-Dic):
Visiting Professor, Dept. of Mech. Eng., Northeastern University, Boston
2009-2010 (Fall term):
Cariplo Visiting Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT
2010-2011 (Fall term):
Cariplo Visiting Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT
2011-2012 (Fall term):
Cariplo Visiting Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT
2012-2013 (Fall term):
Cariplo Visiting Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT
2014-2015 (Fall term):
Visiting Professor, Dept. of Mech. Eng., Northeastern University, Boston
2024 (Spring term):
Lecturer for 2.43 Advanced Thermodynamics, Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT
Director of UniBS PhD program DRIMI (PhD program in Mechanical and
Industrial Engineering) (2012-2016)
Director of UniBS PhD
program TESEIM (PhD program in Technologies and Energy Systems for Mechanical
Industries) (2011-15)
UniBS co-Director
(with MIT co-Director Ahmed Ghoniem) of the Faculty Exchange Program
"CARIPLO UniBS--MIT-MechE Visiting Professors" (2009-2013)
Director of
Undergraduate and Graduate Studies in Mechanical Engineering at UniBS
(1998-2001)
Director of
Undergraduate and Graduate Studies in Mechanical Engineering, Materials
Engineering, and Industrial Automation at UniBS (2001-04)
UniBS Delegate Member
of National Committee for the Formulation and Administration of the National
Admission Tests to Engineering and Architecture Studies (1997-2005)
Board of Directors and
Scientific Committee of CISIA (Interuniversity Consortium for the Admission
Tests to Engineering and Architecture Studies) (2005-2007)
Director UniBS Admission Test to Engineering Studies (1997-2007)
Director of Class
Scheduling for the UniBS School of Engineering (1994-1999)
Member of Teaching
Laboratories Committee of the UniBS School of Engineering (1998-2000)
Member of Steering
Committee of the UniBS Department of Mechanical Engineering (1998-2000)
Head of
"Energy" Section in Undergraduate and Graduate Studies in Mechanical
Engineering at UniBS (1994-2009)
Member of Academic Committee of UniBS PhD program in Technologies and Energy Systems for the
Mechanical Industry (2006-2012)
Member of Academic
Committee of PoliMI (Politecnico di Milano) PhD program in Energy Technology
(2006-2007)
Member of Academic
Committee of UniBG (Università di Bergamo) PhD program in Energy and
Environment Technology (2006-2012)
Acted as thesis
advisor for 101 students (see the detailed list at: http://gianpaolo-beretta.unibs.it/gian_paolo_beretta_theses_supervised.htm).
Teaching duties at
Brescia University (1989-2019) have included: Thermal Sciences
(Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer Fundamentals), Advanced Fluid Mechanics,
Advanced Thermodynamics, Industrial Usage of Energy.
Teaching duties at the
Politecnico di Milano (1984-1989) have included: recitations for Energetica with
Prof. Mario Silvestri, 1984-1989; Thermodynamics: Equilibrium and
Nonequilibrium, for PhD students of PoliMI, UniBS and UniBG, from 2010 to 2023.
Teaching duties at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1981-1986) have included:
recitations for undergraduate 2.40 Thermodynamics with prof. Joseph Smith
(1982-1987) co-teaching of graduate 2.451 General Thermodynamics (1981-1987) and
2.452 Quantum Thermodynamics (1982-1986) with prof. Elias Gyftopoulos; graduate
special topic Quantum Thermodynamics in 2007. .
Teaching duties as
visiting professor at Northeastern University have included:
graduate General Thermodynamics (2008 and 2014) and Quantum
Thermodynamics (2008).
Author of over 150
scientific publications in the fields of thermodynamics, heat transfer,
combustion, and energy. These include:
72 articles published
in international journals (detailed list and pdf's available at: http://gianpaolo-beretta.unibs.it/gian_paolo_beretta_main_publications.htm) among which 20 are
single-author and 25 with international coauthors;
80 articles in
proceedings of international conferences (detailed list and pdf's available at: http://gianpaolo-beretta.unibs.it/gian_paolo_beretta_proceedings.htm) among which 21 are
single-author and 27 with international coauthors;
24 articoli in
proceedings of national conferences (detailed list and pdf's available at: http://gianpaolo-beretta.unibs.it/gian_paolo_beretta_proceedings_national.htm);
5 patents, 8 small
textbooks and 10 other pubblications in italian (detailed list at: http://gianpaolo-beretta.unibs.it/gian_paolo_beretta_publications_in_italian.htm);
Has coauthored the
reference textbook E.P. Gyftopoulos & G.P. Beretta,
Thermodynamics. Foundations and Applications, first edition: Macmillan, New
York, 1990; second and third edition: Dover edition, Mineola, NY, 2005, 2010.
Web of Science (ResearcherID C-5448-2008):
link to Publons citation metrics
Scopus (AuthorID 7102379273):
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ORCID 0000-0001-9302-2468:
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Google Scholar:
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Local PI for MIUR
Project PRIN97 - Grant prot.9709116510\_002 - Heat transfer and fluid dynamics
of steel solidification in open cavities in presence of forced and natural
convection of the liquid phase - 1/11/1997-15/03/2000 (€71,788).
Local PI for MIUR
Project PRIN99 - Grant prot.9909113125\_011 - Numerical simulations on: a) Free
convection with solidification in a cavity (includes experimental activities in
a steel making plant); b) Free convective heat transfer from small disks and
plates; c) Convection induced by rotating disks and cylinders in rotor-stator
systems - 1/11/1999-13/12/2001 (€72,304).
Local PI for MIUR
Project PRIN01 - Grant prot.2001094741\_003 - Heat transfer and fluid dynamics
of binary mixtures under solidification with application to ingot and sand
casting - 1/12/2001-09/01/2004 (€56,294).
Local PI for MIUR
Project PRIN04 - Grant prot.2004098758\_005 - Core-annular flow of oil and water
in horizontal pipes - 30/11/2004-22/12/2006 (€ 61,800).
UniBS coDirector of
the Faculty Exchange Program "CARIPLO UniBS--MIT-MechE Visiting
Professors" and UniBS delegate for the corresponding Faculty Exchange
Agreement between UniBS and MIT - 1/6/2009-30/6/2013 (€500,000, bando
"Promuovere la formazione di capitale umano d'eccellenza", Fondazione
Cariplo, Grant 2008-2290). The program supported 18 stages at MIT of UniBS
faculty of three engineering departments for periods between 21 and 90 days
each, 4 stages of 90 days each at MIT for UniBS PhD students, and 11 visits of
MIT professors at UniBS for periods of 14 days each; these stages have generated
over 30 publications with joint UniBS-MIT coauthors in prestigious international
journals, plus several other beneficial activities.
Local PI for MIUR
Project PRIN09 - Grant prot.20093JPM5Z_002 -Experimental and theoretical
investigation of fundamental aspects of liquid-liquid mixing and demixing
(€84,000).
PI for Project AOARD
(Asian Office of Aerospace R&D, US Air Force) FA2386-10-1-4146 (Heat
transfer enhancement in small-scale devices: a collaborative
experimental/numerical approach ($119,000)
PI for Projects AOARD
(Asian Office of Aerospace R&D, US Air Force) FA2386-10-1-4146 and
EOARD (European Office of Aerospace R&D, US Air Force) FA8655-11-1-3068
Microscale heat transfer enhancement using spinodal decomposition of binary
liquid mixtures: a collaborative modeling/experimental approach
($276,000)
F.
Obert Award, ASME, 2017
Chair
of the European Committee for the assignment of the Prigogine Prize in
Thermodynamics, since 2017
Calvin W. Rice Award,
ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineering), 2011
Life member ASME, dal 2011
Fellow ASME, elected
in 2006 (member since 1986)
Italian Delegate in
the European Committee for the assignment of the Prigogine Prize in
Thermodynamics, member since 2008, chair since 2017
Member of the Board of
Directors of municipal utility company ASM Brescia, November 1992 - December
1994
Member of the
Assignment Committee of Eurotherm Young Scientist Prize and Award, 1996
Member of the
Assignment Committee of AICARR
National Fellowship, 2002-2004
Member of the
Assignment Committee of Roberto
Rocca Scholarships, 2008, 2010-2013
Delegate for UniBS in
Scientific Committee CILEA Computational Modeling, 1995-1998
Member of Scientific
Committees of International Congresses ECOS06, ECOS07, ECOS08 on Efficiency,
Costs, Optimization, Simulation and Environmental Impact of Energy Systems,
2005-2008
Member of Scientific
Committees of International Congresses JETC09, JETC11, JETC13, JETC15, Joint
European Thermodynamics Conference Series, 2008-2015
Member of Scientific
and Organizing Committee, and co-Editor of the book of proceedings,
International Symposium "Meeting the Entropy Challenge", MIT, October
2007
Chair of Scientific
and Organizing Committee, 28th UIT Heat Transfer Congress, UIT2010,
Brescia, June 2010
Chair of Scientific
and Organizing Committee, 12th Joint European Thermodynamics
Conference, JETC2013, Brescia, July 2013
Physical
Review Letters
Physical
Review A
Physical
Review E
Energy,
the International Journal
Applied
Energy
Fuel
Journal of
Energy Resources Technology
Journal of
Chemical Physics
Combustion
and Flame
Journal of
Propulsion and Power
International
Journal of Heat and Technology
International Journal of Multiphase Flow
Journal of
Heat Transfer
Entropy
Philosophical
Transactions of the Royal Society A
Journal of
Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics
Oil and
Gas Science and Technology
Journal of
Mathematical Physics
Il Nuovo
Cimento B
Journal of
Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment
Mathematical
Reviews
Foundations
of Physics
Physica A
Physics
Letters A
Journal of
Physics A: Mathematical and General
Journal of
Physics D: Condensed Matter
Acta
Mechanica
International
Journal of Thermal Sciences
Industrial
and Engineering Chemistry Research
Applied
Thermal Engineering
Journal of
Geometry and Physics
International
Journal of Thermodynamics
American
Society of Mechanical Engineers, ASME Transactions
National
Research Council, U.S. Army Basic Scientific Research
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