Andrea Prosperetti

Who is Andrea Prosperetti?

Andrea Prosperetti is the Charles A. Miller, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Johns Hopkins University, the Berkhoff Professor of Applied Physics at the University of Twente in the Netherlands and an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering. He is renowned for his work in the field of multiphase flows including bubble dynamics and cavitation.

He is the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Multiphase Flow and serves on the editorial board of the Annual review of Fluid Mechanics. He completed his doctoral work in 1974 at the California Institute of Technology under the supervision of Milton Plesset and holds a B.S. in Physics from Universitá di Milano, Italy.

Prosperetti was awarded the Fluid Dynamics Prize by the American Physical Society in 2003 "for breakthroughs in the theory of multiphase flows, the dynamics of bubble oscillations, underwater sound, and free-surface flows and for providing elegant explanations of paradoxical phenomena in these fields".