Our SGRI 2016 co-host

Julio Romano Meneghini has been a Full Professor of Principles and Applications in Mechanical Engineering at the Escola Politecnica, University of Sao Paulo, since 2010. He holds a PhD in Aeronautical Engineering from Imperial College, University of London (1993). He pursued a Master of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Sao Paulo. Additionally, he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from the Physics Institute at the University of Sao Paulo (1989); he also has a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering (EEM, 1984).

He has been working on research projects in Aeronautical, Mechanical, Naval and Oceanic Engineering, as a coordinator or consultant. His main areas of interest are investigations focusing on vortex shedding, vortex-induced vibration, computational fluid dynamics, bluff body flow and aeroacustics. He worked as Research Associate at the Department of Aeronautics-Imperial College in 1995. Since 1994, he has been an academic member of staff for the Mechanical Engineering Department at the Escola Politécnica of the University of São Paulo (EPUSP).

He is the Director of the Research Centre for Gas Innovation (RCGI), sponsored by FAPESP-BG Brasil (Shell) . He is the coordinator of the Fluid & Dynamics Research Group (NDF) at EPUSP. He is the author and co-author of more than 130 papers published in worldly-renowned academic journals. He has been coordinating research projects sponsored by Petrobras, Embraer, Fapesp, Finep/CTPetro, CNPq/CTPetro, Voith-Siemens, British Petroleum (BP), Oxiteno and BG-Group.

He is a consultant of Cape’s Committee of the Three-Annual Evaluations (2007 – 2008–2009 and 2010–2011-2012) of the Engineering III Postgraduate Programmes (Mechanical, Mechatronics, Naval and Ocean, Aeronautical, Production and Petroleum Engineering).