Curriculum vitae

Personal Information

Name: Alberto Passalacqua

E-mail: alberto.passalacqua@tin.it

Nationality: Italian

Date of birth: 1978, July 21^st

Current activity

2008, January 7^th – Today
Post-doc on the solution of the Boltzmann equation with the quadrature method of moments at Iowa State University – Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering – Ames – IA – USA.

Work experience

2005, September – 2006, November
Optimization of HDT Vicat – Haloxide for CEAST S.p.A.

2004, July 15^th – 2005, December
Research activity at Politecnico di Torino – Department of Chemical Engineering and Material Science – Development of a new gas-liquid reactor in partnership with M&G – Mossi & Ghisolfi group.

2004, October – November
Research activity for Cobarr S.p.A for the determination of the surface renewal time of a stirred gas-solid reactor using CFD codes.

2004, May
Research activity at Politecnico di Torino – Department of Chemical Engineering and Material Science – Modeling of circulating fluidized bed reactors.

Education

2008, March 3^rd
Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at Politecnico di Torino on the CFD simulation of gas-solid flows. (Work period at Politecnico di Torino: 2005, January 1^st – 2007, December 31^st)

2007, January 17^th – 19^th
Excellence course of Politecnico di Torino Doctorate School. Writing to communicate science: a short course for doctoral students, held by Dr. Sarah
Clark.

2006, July 3^rd – 7^th
Course on Computational Models for Turbulent Multiphase Reacting Flows, held at CISM (Udine) and coordinated by Prof. D. Marchisio and R. Fox.

2006, March 6^th – 9^th
Excellence course of Politecnico di Torino Doctorate School. Nanoparticles: synthesis and characterization, organized by Dr. P. Bowen, Dr. V. Buscaglia, Prof. B. Fubini, Dr. D. Marchisio, Prof. L. Montanaro, Prof. M. Vanni.

2006 February 28^th – March 1^st
FLUENT base course, held at Politecnico di Torino by FLUENT Italia.

2005, September 12^th – 16^th
IUTAM School on Dispersion of Particles in Turbulent Flows, held at CISM and coordinated by Prof. M. Reeks and Prof. A. Soldati.

2005, April 4^th – 8^th
GRICU School on Mathematical Method for Chemical Engineering, held at the University of Bologna and coordinated by Prof. P. L. Maffettone and Prof. F. Doghieri.

2004, March
Master degree in Chemical Engineering at Politecnico di Torino, 110/110 cum laude, Thesis: Simulation of circulating fluidised bed reactors with a CFD code. (Original title: Simulazione di reattori a letto fluidizzato a ricircolo con codice CFD).

1998, March
Preliminary English Test, University of Cambridge, Pass with merit.

1997, July
Maturità scientifica at Liceo Scientifico G. Parodi of Acqui Terme, 60/60.

Pubblications, Conferences, Talks, Seminars

For un updated list see here.

Languages

Italian: Mother tongue

English: Good (reading and writing)

Technical skills and competences

Operating systems
Microsoft Windows^®
Linux: SuSE^®, RedHat^®.

Office software
Microsoft Office^®, OpenOffice, LaTeX

Programming languages
C/C++, Fortran 90

Technical software
FLUENT^®, OpenFOAM^®, AutoCAD^®,

Memberships

Member of the Italian Engineers’ Register of Alessandria since 2006 – Registration Number A-1832.

Member of AIChE – American Institute of Chemical Engineers.

Others activities