Phd in ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT

email: annunziata.dorazio@uniroma1.it
phone: 0644585726
building: II Piano - Sede San Pietro in Vincoli - E01
room: 2 (L067)

* She has a master Degree in Mechanical Engineering and PhD in Energetics, she is Associate Professor of Technical Physics (SC
09(C2 SSD ING-IND/10).

She works in the Department of Astronautical, Electrical and Energy Engineering (DIAEE).
Energetics (DIAEE) of Sapienza University of Rome.
*She is a professor, at the Faculty of Civil and Industrial Engineering (ICI) of Sapienza University of Rome, where she teaches Hospital Installations I (Clinical Engineering degree course) and of Hospital Installations II (Biomedical Engineering Master's degree course), and, at the Faculty of Pharmacy and Medicine of Sapienza University of Rome, where she teaches Technical Physics (Prevention Techniques in the Workplace Environment degree course).
She has taught Technical Physics at the Faculty of Civil and Industrial Engineering (ICI) of Sapienza University of Rome (degree dourse in Clinical Engineering) and Hospital Installations and Special Hospital Installations at the Faculty of Engineering of the 'Campus Biomedico' University of Rome (degree Course in Biomedical Engineering).
She supervises and has supervised bachelor and master theses.
She is and has been a supervisor and tutor of doctoral students.

*She is a member of the teaching board of the PhD programme in Energy and Environment.
She was a member of the teaching board of the PhD programme in Environmental Engineering and Hydraulics.
She was a member of the teaching board of the PhD programme in Technical Physics.
She is the scientific coordinator of collaborations with Sistemi Iperbarici S.r.l., Thermofisher Scientific, SagiCofim s.p.a., Daikin Applied Eu, the University Campus Bio-Medico of Rome, the Physiotherapy Institute Ospitaliero Regina Elena and San Gallicano.
She has been and still is the coordinator of faculty, university and national research projects.
She coordinates the research activities of the Laboratory for Integrated Research and Didactic Activities in Clinical and Biomedical Engineering, for which she has been responsible for the construction and relative restructuring of the spaces.
She is scientific responsible for research grants.

* She was a member and secretary of the Unique Guarantee Committee (teachers) of 'Sapienza' University of Rome, and is currently an substitute member of the same committee.
She was a member of the Joint Teachers-Students Committee of the ICI Faculty.
She was a member of the Commission for the Admission of Foreign Candidates to the Doctoral School in Science and Technology for Industrial Innovation.
She was and is the Executive Manager of the FIGI Project (Faculty of Engineering - Large Enterprises).
She coordinated the working group for the drafting of the Strategic Plan of the DIAEE Department until the final version was submitted.
She is the delegate of the CAD training courses in Clinical and Biomedical Engineering and a member of the Didactic Regulations Commission.
She is an expert member of the Commission for the State Examinations for Qualification as an Engineer for the Clinical Engineering degree course and the Biomedical Engineering Master's degree course.
She was and is the President of the Commission for the Master Degree in Biomedical Engineering of the Faculty of Civil and Industrial Engineering - Sapienza University of Rome.
She has been and still is a member of competition and selection committees for universities and public institutions.

*She is Associate Editor of the international journals J. of Applied Fluid Mechanics, Heat Transfer Engineering, Energies and is a member of the International Scientific Committee of the international journal Thermal Science and of the Scientific Committee of the AiCARR Journal, the official organ of AiCARR.
She is guest editor of the special issues "Nanofluids Heat Transfer" and "Nanofluids Heat Transfer II" of Energies, "Thermal particle base methods in fluid flow and heat transfer" of J. of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry and of the Focus Point on Rarefied Flows at Micro- and Nano-Scale in European Physical Journal Plus.
She is a member of the Editorial Board of the 'Enciclopedia Treccani' published by the Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana 'G. Treccani'.

*She is responsible for international scientific collaboration agreements with the University of Technology of Isfahan (Iran), the Islamic Azad University - Neyshabur Branch, Neyshabur (Iran), and the University of Monastir (Tunisia).

*She regularly reviews scientific articles for numerous international journals, in particular Int. J. of Heat and Mass Transfer, Int. J. of Thermal Sciences, Int. J. of Computational Fluid Dynamics, Physical Review E, Int. J. of Heat and Fluid Flow, Physical Review Letter, World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society, Thermal Science, J. of Geophysical Research - Solid Earth, Computers and Mathematics with Applications, Meccanica, J. of Applied Fluid Mechanics, Respiratory Care, The Scientific World Journal, Heat Transfer, Transactions of ASHRAE, J. of Molecular Liquids, Energies, Chinese Journal of Physics, Physica E: Low-dimensional Systems and Nanostructures, Engineering Computations, European J. of Mechanics / B Fluids, Science and Technology for the Built Environment (HVAC&R Research), J. of food process engineering, Computer and Fluids, J. of Advanced Research in Fluid Mechanics and Thermal Sciences, AiCARR Journal, Environmental Science and Pollution Research, Epidemiology and Infections, Scientific Reports, Int. Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer, J. of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry, J. of Energy Storage, Building Research & Information, Sustainable Cities and Society

*She was the scientific and organisational manager of the 'EUDOSSIANA OFFICINE - Faults, Frontiers, Horizons. Conversation on Engineering in Transition", 16 April 2024
She is a member of the Local Scientific Committee and of the Organising Committee of ICCHMT2019 (XII International Conference on Computational Heat, Mass and Momentum Transfer).
She is a member of the Scientific Committee of the 36th AICARR National Conference 2019 "Cooling from renewable sources: between utopia and reality" and of the 35th AICARR National Conference 2018 "Energy and comfort in buildings in the era of digitalisation and distributed intelligence".
She was the scientific and organisational manager of the 2020 seminar "Air Quality: state of the art open issues" in collaboration with the Order of Engineers of the Province of Rome and under the patronage of AiCARR
She was one of the organisers of the two editions (1990 and 1991) of the First National Conference "Women and Science" at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Rome "La Sapienza".
She is a member of the Organising Committee of the events of 7, 15 and 16 December 2016 and of the exhibition "Women of Mathematics throughout Europe: a gallery of portraits".
She is a member of the Scientific Committee of the 2021 seminars "Tecniche Sapienti - The presence of women in the Sapienza University".

*She was elected to the Board of Directors of the Italian Association of Air Conditioning, Heating and Refrigeration for the 2017/2019 biennium.
She is a member of the associations ASHRAE (of the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers), AiCARR (Italian Association of Air Conditioning, Heating and Refrigeration), ATI (Italian Thermotechnical Association), AIFT (of the Italian Association of Technical Physics), ASCCA (Association for the Study and Control of Environmental Contamination), AISI (Italian Association of Engineering History); she is an full member of CIRPS (Inter-University Research Centre for Sustainable Development); she is a member of the AiCARR-ASHRAE GROUP.
She is a member of the Interdepartmental Observatory for Gender Studies and Equal Opportunities of the University of Salerno and of the Laboratory on Diversity and Gender Inequality of Sapienza University of Rome MinervaLab.

* Her research activity has included, and continues to include, the development of numerical models for the simulation of thermo-fluid dynamic fields based on Lattice Boltzmann Methods, the experimental and numerical study of thermo-fluid dynamics and heat transfer, in natural and forced convection, also under unconventional conditions, the experimental study of the control of contamination and biocontamination in confined environments, the theoretical and experimental study of air conditioning systems, the study of the on-site production of medical oxygen by means of a pressure swing adsorption process, the evaluation of the use of heat pumps to improve the air quality, the study of the controlled evacuation of hospital wards in the event of fire, the sustainable use of water in hospitals and Water Safety Plans, the numerical study of the thermal field in cryostats used in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance equipment, the evaluation of energy saving and safety measures in the hospital environment, the experimental and theoretical study of sterilisation techniques, the theoretical and experimental study of acoustic noise sources in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance equipment.

* She has worked on the experimental and theoretical study of aerodynamic noise and thermo-hygrometric comfort inside hyperbaric chambers, the characterisation of tensintegral structures, the characterisation of the photoacoustic response of microbubbles as they vary in temperature, and the analysis of the behaviour of contrast agents for diagnostic ultrasound using the pulse scattering technique, the experimental study of anomalous acoustic modes of foils, the experimental observation of the chaotic dynamics of physical systems, the theoretical and experimental study of the performance of commercial echotomographic devices, the development of mathematical models and experimental investigations to describe the behaviour of air cooling machines.

* She is the author or co-author of more than 110 scientific papers, of which more than 80 have an international impact and almost 60 have been published in peer-reviewed journals and has contributed to a number of books.

In 2005 she received the 2004 ESSO Prize for Doctoral Theses