Maria Rosaria Vetrano has a position as a professor and currently works at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium. She received her Ph.D. in Applied Science from the Université libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Belgium. She was an associate professor at the von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics, Sint-Genesius-Rode, Belgium (2006–2017). Her research topics are the experimental characterization of two-phase flows (Boiling flows, cavitating flows, atomization, and sprays), the development of light scattering-based measurement techniques, flow characterization using laser-based measurement techniques (Particle Image Velocimetry, Light Scattering based techniques, Fluorescence techniques), and nanofluid heat transfer enhancement (single and two-phase flows). She has 125 paper publications with 1016 citations and 27,824 reads (ResearchGate, 25 December 2023) in these areas.