Carolina Mira-Hernández
Assistant Professor
Carolina Mira-Hernández research focuses on the sustainable use of thermal energy, two-phase heat transfer and thermal energy storage. She graduated from Mechanical Engineering, Engineering Physics and Master in Engineering at Eafit University in Medellín, Colombia. She completed her PhD in Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, USA. After her PhD studies, she returned to Colombia and joined the research collaboration program Energética 2030, where she designed and tested household appliances with thermal energy storage and driven by photovoltaic electricity. She joined the TEI research group in 2023 as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellow for the project ET4PCM, which aims to develop a non-invasive impedance sensor to evaluate in real-time the liquid fraction evolution of phase change materials and will enable smart control of latent thermal energy storages.
