About us
DTU coordinator team
Fredrik Haglind is professor at Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark. Prof. Haglind manages one of the leading research groups within sustainable thermal power with focus on advanced turbomachinery, thermo-mechanical energy storage, efficient heat transfer, and sustainable heat-to-power conversion technologies.
Nishith Babubhai Desai is a researcher at the Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark. Dr. Desai have experience in the design and optimization of concentrated solar power plants, thermal energy storage systems, modeling and optimization of energy systems, and waste/low-grade heat recovery systems.
Training42Phase includes 4 academic partners each employing 2-4 doctoral candidates (DCs) and one industrial partner employing 1 doctoral candidate, supported by 7 associated industrial partners.
Main supervisors
Fredrik Haglind
Fredrik Haglind is Professor at Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark.
Prof. Haglind manages one of the leading research groups within sustainable thermal power with focus on advanced turbomachinery, thermo-mechanical energy storage, efficient heat transfer, and sustainable heat-to-power conversion technologies.
Giacomo Persico
Giacomo Persico is Full Professor at Department of Energy, Politecnico di Milano, Italy.
Within the Institute, Prof. Persico belongs to the Laboratory of Fluid-Machines, with a leading role in the flow modelling and design of turbomachinery for novel energy systems, such as organic Rankine cycles, supercritical CO2 systems, heat pumps, pumped thermal energy storage technologies, microturbines, and in the multi-fidelity simulation of floating off-shore wind turbines.
Anne Barros
Anne Barros is Professor at Department of Industrial Engineering, Ecole CentraleSupélec, University of Paris-Saclay, France.
Prof. Barros manages one of the leading research groups within Risk, Resilience and Reliability, with focus on data driven and physics informed degradation modelling, prognostics, condition based and predictive maintenance, vulnerability assessment of critical infrastructures, resilience and maintenance optimization for complex industrial systems.
Federico Bassi
Federico Bassi has a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, and he is currently Product Development Engineer at Exergy International.
Dr Bassi is a finite element and rotordynamic analyst of radial outflow turbines for organic Rankine cycles with a solid academic background in high temperature fracture mechanics. In the Training42Phase project he will be responsible for the mechanical design of axial centrifugal pump stages for partial evaporation organic Rankine cycle systems.
Christoph Schwingshackl
Christoph Schwingshackl is a Reader in Mechanical Engineering in the Dynamics Group at Imperial College London where he is the Deputy Director of the Vibration University Technology Centre, sponsored by Rolls-Royce. His main research interest is structural dynamics of aircraft engines with a focus on the experimental and analytic analysis of nonlinear friction damping and rotor dynamics.
David Nowell
David Nowell is Professor of Machine Dynamics at Imperial College London and is Director of the Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre in Vibration.
He has 35 years’ experience of research in the area of structural integrity and performance, with specific expertise in contact, friction and fatigue. He has published over 200 journal articles and conference papers and has co-authored two books. Alongside his academic work David is a Vice-President of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in the UK. In the Training42Phase project David will be responsible for work on the modelling of droplet erosion of structures.
Doctoral candidates (DCs)
Andrea Cioffi
Andrea Cioffi (DC1) is a PhD student in the Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU). He holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Polytechnic of Turin, Italy, with a master’s thesis developed at EPFL, Switzerland.
As part of the Training42Phase project, Andrea's research focuses on applying the method of characteristics to design two-phase supersonic turbines for partial-evaporation organic Rankine cycle power systems.
Alberto Bergamin
Alberto Bergamin (DC2) is a PhD student at Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark.
Alberto holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Padova, Italy. Within the Training42Phase project, he focuses on Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) modeling of cryogenic turboexpanders for energy storage applications.
Jiawei He
Jiawei He (DC3) is a PhD student at Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark.
Jiawei holds a Bachelor’s degree in Fluid Machinery and Engineering from Lanzhou University of Technology, China, and Master’s degree in Fluid Machinery and Engineering from Jiangsu University, China. Within the Training42Phase project, he focuses on analysis of two-phase flows in supercritical carbon dioxide compressors.
Muhammad Salman Ali Shahid
Muhammad Salman Ali Shahid (DC4) is a PhD student at the Department of Energy, Politecnico di Milano, Italy.
Salman holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from PNEC-NUST, Pakistan, and Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering from EPFL, Switzerland. Within the Training42Phase project, he focuses on Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) modeling of two-phase flows in supercritical CO₂ compressors for next-generation turbomachinery.
Ahmed Mohamed Awad Mohamed Harbi
Ahmed Mohamed Awad Mohamed Harbi (DC5) is a PhD student at the Laboratory of Fluid-achines, Department of Energy, Politecnico di Milano, Italy.
Ahmed holds a Bachelor’s in Mechanical Power Engineering from Mansoura University, Egypt, and an Erasmus Mundus Joint Master’s Degree in Decentralised Smart Energy Systems (DENSYS) with specialization in Thermal Energy Engineering; this is a double-degree completed in Université de Lorraine, France, and Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain. Within the Training42Phase project, he focuses on design and modelling of two-phase ejectors and turbo-expanders for trans-critical heat pumps.
Andrés Vignolo Cortabarria
Andrés Vignolo Cortabarria (DC6) is a PhD student at the Dynamics Group of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Imperial College London, UK.
Andrés holds a Bachelor’s degree in Industrial and Mechanical Engineering and Master’s degree in Applied Fluid Mechanics from the Universidad de la República, Uruguay. His work for the Training42Phase project focuses on modelling surface erosion due to high-speed liquid impingements in the context of turbomachinery for two-phase flows.
Alex Mathew
Alex Mathew (DC7) is a PhD student in Vibration University Technology Centre, Dynamics group, Department of Mechanical Engineering at Imperial College London, UK.
Alex holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from College of Engineering Trivandrum, University of Kerala, India and Master’s degree in Design Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India. Within the Training42Phase project, he focuses on dynamic performance changes of blades due to blade erosion and impact on blade life.
Pu Huang
Pu Huang (DC8) is a PhD student at Laboratoire Génie Industriel (LGI), CentraleSupélec, Université Paris-Saclay, France.
Pu holds a Bachelor’s degree in Quality and Reliability Engineering and Master’s degree in Control Science and Engineering from Beihang University, China. Within the Training42Phase project, he focuses on Reliability Assessment and Predictive Maintenance methodologies designed for advanced Two-Phase Flow Turbomachinery.
Matteo Battisti
Matteo Battisti (DC9) is a PhD student at Laboratoire Génie Industriel, LGI, CentraleSupélec, a member of the University Paris-Saclay, France.
Matteo holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Computer Science Engineering from the University of Brecia, Italy. Within the Training42Phase project, he focuses on robust simulation and optimization for reliable two-phase turbomachinery.
Saeed Jamali Keisari
Saeed Jamali Keisari (DC10) is recruited by Exergy and a PhD candidate in Energy and Nuclear Science and Technology at Politecnico di Milano, Italy.
Saeed holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Guilan University, Iran and Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Iran. Within the Training42Phase project, he focuses on the aero-thermodynamics of two-phase flow in turbomachinery, specifically designing an axial-centrifugal pump stage for boiling Organic Rankine Cycle fluid. His research is conducted in collaboration with Exergy International, and DTU.
Srinivas Diwanji
Srinivas Diwanji (DC11) is a PhD student at Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark.
Srinivas holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi, India and Master’s degree in aerospace engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India. Within the Training42Phase project, he focuses on Advanced mean-line models for two-phase turbines in partial evaporation organic Rankine cycle systems.
Mennatallah Gouda
Mennatallah Gouda (DC12) is a PhD student at Systems and Industrial Engineering, Centrale Supélec, France.
Mennatallah holds a Bachelor’s degree in computational biology from the University of Science and Technology – Zewail City, Egypt and Master’s degree in Applied Mathematics from Utah State University, USA. Within the Training42Phase project, she focuses on reliability-based design optimization of two-phase flow turbomachinery using digital twins and physics-informed machine learning.