Marco Lorenzini graduated in Mechanical Engineering at the
University of Bologna in 1995. He was awarded a postgraduate grant
for a one-year stay in Germany /FH Flensburg), where he designed
the lay-out of the laboratory for thermal solar engineering. He
started his PhD in 1998 at the University of Pisa, in the
Department of Energy Engineering (subject: "Cooling of rows of
horizontal cylinders by means of a submerged liquid slot jet"),
discussing his thesis in 2001. After some time at the Research
Centre of ENEL (in the gas turbine diagnostics department) and a
short spell at Von Karman Institute (Belgium) he joined the Faculty
of the School of Engineering of Bologna in the Department on Energy
Engineering (DIENCA) on a research contract between 2002 and 2006.
In October 2006 he was appointed Assistant Professor at the Second
School of Engineering (Forlì and Cesena), where he has been holding
courses ever since.
His didactic activity pertains the areas of thermodynamics and heat
transfer and of HVAC applications to housholds. His research
activity has been initially devoted to the enhancment of heat
transfer, especially in the field of power electronics and deals
now mainly with heat and fluid flow in microchanels, where he is
co-author of several works of experimental, numerical and
theoretical nature published on international journals and in the
proceedings of international conferences. He has been involved in
nationally-funded projects (PRIN 2003, PRIN 2005, PRIN 2007) and
european projects (ITN-Marie Curie GasMems 2008) on research
activities pertaining to microchannels.
