Andrea Prosperetti

Andrea Prosperetti is the Charles A. Miller Jr. Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Johns Hopkins University^[1] and the Berkhoff Professor of Applied Physics at the University of Twente in the Netherlands.^[2] He is known for his work in the field of multiphase flows including bubble dynamics and cavitation.^[3]

Prosperetti received his B.S. in Physics from Universitá di Milano, Italy in 1968. He received his Master's degree in Engineering Science from the California Institute of Technology in 1972 and a doctorate degree, under the supervision of Milton Plesset, from the same University in 1974; both in Engineering Science.

Awards and honors

• Fellow, Acoustical Society of America, 1983
• Fellow, American Physical Society, 1993
• Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1997
• Lifetime Achievement Award, Japan Society of Multiphase Flow, 2001
• Otto Laporte Award, American Physical Society, 2003
• Fluids Engineering Award, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2005^[4]
• Elected to the National Academy of Engineering, 2012

References

External links

• Andrea Prosperetti at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.