Andrea Vallati has a M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering and a Ph.D. degree in Thermophysical Properties of Materials.
He is an Associate Professor of Thermal Sciences (B.S. Civil Engineering) at the Faculty of Civil and Industrial Engineering of Sapienza University of Rome. He is a member of the PhD Course in Energy and Environment at Sapienza University of Rome and a member of a Final Doctoral Commission of Mechanical Engineering at Polytechnic University of Cracow. He joins Department DIAEE of Sapienza University of Rome. He is the manager of the Laboratory of Energy and Thermodynamic of DIAEE.
He serves as a reviewer for several archival scientific journals, including Applied Thermal Engineering, Energies, International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat and Fluid Flow, Sustainability, Heat Transfer Engineering, Applied Energy, as well as for international conferences (UIT, International Conference on Computational Heat and Mass Transfer) and is a member of the Editorial Board of the Progress in Computational Fluid Dynamics, An International Journal, Journal of Power Technologies and Rynek Energii. He has also been a member of Organizing Committees of International conferences and Local Chair of ICCHMT2019. He has been, and currently is, the scientific coordinator of several research projects granted by Sapienza University of Rome.
His current research interests include energy saving, energy and buildings, CFD in outdoor and indoor environment, energy efficiency, optimization of HVAC systems and the heat transfer above the soil. He is author or co-author of more than 80 scientific works on heat transfer, applied thermodynamics and energy saving, 39 of which are published in peer-reviewed international journals. The hindex is 20 (Scopus index)