Iuliana Cernatescu
Iuliana Cernatescu
Senior Technical Fellow, Materials Characterization And Applications; Pratt & Whitney
Elected to the Academy in 2025

Education

Instituto Balseiro (Argentina), 1990, BS/MS, Nuclear Engineering; 1993, PhD, Nuclear Engineering

Professional Areas

Expert in materials characterization, conducting advanced research and application efforts through collaborations with national laboratories, universities, and designing and building one of the most state-of-the-art industrial materials characterization labs. She is an expert in the physics of materials characterization and industrial applications engineering.

Citation

For numerous contributions to naval hydrodynamics, advancement of computational tools and mathematical models to simulate flows around ships; development of models and numerical algorithms for the solution of free surface flows, bubbly flows, cavitation inception and bubble entrainment; development of techniques to enable simulation of ship motions and control.