Associate Professor, University of Florence

Biography

Alessandro Bianchini is Associate Professor at the Department of Industrial Engineering of the University of Florence (Italy), where he holds the courses on “Wind and marine engineering” and “Advanced Renewable Energy Conversion”. Prof. Bianchini currently serves as the vice-president of the European Academy of Wind energy (EAWE) and Associated Editor of the prestigious Wind Energy Science Journal. In the field of wind energy, he has authored so far more than 150 publications in peer-reviewed journals and conferences, including the authorship of two of the ten studies in the “Grand Challenges Paper Series” promoted by the International Energy Agency. His main research fields are wind turbine aerodynamics and design/simulation of wind turbines and farms with multi-fidelity approaches, from engineering methods to high-computing Computational Fluid Dynamics.