Tiago Augusto Moreira

Research Scientist at the Solar Energy Lab of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Your research focus on the experimental thermal-hydraulic assessment of advanced power generation systems applied to renewable and nuclear energy. As a principal investigator, he was responsible for approving 3 major projects, which sum up to more than US$2,750,000.00. Among them, on focus on nuclear energy (critical heat flux), one on both nuclear and solar (liquid sodium heat pipes), and one in solar energy systems using high-temperature salts. Besides these projects, he is also involved in a thematic research project from FAPESP on using CO2 for renewable energy. He has more than 25 paper in international journals and 25 in international and national conferences., being some of them awarded, like the one of the last International Heat Transfer Conference (IHTC-18), hosted in South Africa, where he obtained the award of best paper in the section. He also has a deposited patent. His performance also has international recognition, being a reviewer in more than 20 international journals, and organizing as a guest editor the o special issue In-tube flow pattern transitions under diabatic and adiabatic conditions for the journal Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science. He is also a member of the scientific committee of the 11th International Symposium on Supercritical Water-Cooled Reactors, to be held in Pisa Italy next year, and U.S. representative at the International Atomic Energy Agency Coordinate Research Program on supercritical water reactors and member of the Nuclear Engineering Committee of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering. He graduated in Mechanical Engineering by the University of Sao Paulo (USP), where he also obtained his Masters (research theme: heat transfer of nanofluids during single-phase flow and flow boiling in microchannels) and Ph.D. (analysis of the condensation of hydrocarbons and their mixtures inside horizontal channels applied to commercial and industrial refrigeration). As part of his PhD, he made a six-month internship at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Also worked as a Postdoc Research Associated at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for 18 months (August 2021 to February 2023). Recently, Dr. Moreira was awarded with the "Bollinger Academic Staff Distinguished Achievement Award for Research Excellence" at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)