Alessandro Parente earned his Master's (2005) and PhD (2009) in Chemical Engineering from the Università di Pisa. He was a Research Associate at the University of Utah (2007–2009) and joined the von Karman Institute in 2009. Since 2010, he has been at the Université libre de Bruxelles, where he became a Full Professor in 2019. As the co-chair of the Brussels Institute for Thermal-Fluid Systems and Clean Energy (BRITE) since 2021, his research encompasses experimental and numerical studies of reacting and non-reacting flows, with applications in air quality and industrial decarbonization. He is a fellow of the Combustion Institute and has received 2 ERC grants. Currently, he leads efforts in using machine learning to enhance fluid flow simulations and develop digital twins, coordinating several projects in the field, including a European-wide network (cypher.ulb.be) for decarbonising hard-to-abate sectors. Main Research Interests: Thermo-fluid systems, with applications ranging from atmospheric flows to air pollution in urban environments, from sustainable combustion technologies to process industries.
