Elia Merzari received his Ph.D. from Tokyo Institute of Technology with a thesis on the use of advanced computational fluid dynamics techniques to the simulation of flows in rod bundles. After graduation, he remained in the same institute as a Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science fellow. In 2009, he joined Argonne National Laboratory, first as a postdoctoral fellow and then as a regular staff in 2010. At Argonne, Dr. Merzari served in several roles in the Nuclear Energy Advanced modeling and simulation (NEAMS) program, for which he is currently the thermal-fluids lead. In 2019, he joined the faculty at Penn State as an associate professor. Dr. Merzari’s research relies on predictive large-scale simulations of turbulence to improve our physical understanding of complex flows and to ultimately design safer and more efficient nuclear reactors. He has received several awards related to these efforts in the area of high performance computing including: ANS Landis Young Member Engineering Achievement Award, ASME's George Westinghouse Silver Medal, and a R&D100 award.
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