Cristian Ferrari received his B.S., M.S. and PhD degrees in mechanical engineering from the University of Ferrara, Italy, in 2006, 2008 and 2012, respectively. He was research fellow at the Institute for Agricultural and Earthmoving Machines of the National Research Council of Italy from 2013 to 2019 when he became a full researcher. He is currently a researcher at the Institute of Science and Technology for Sustainable Energy and Mobility of the National Research Council of Italy. He specializes in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis and fluid machinery design; his research interests include the simulation of non-Newtonian fluids, multiphase flows, flow forces and mixing processes. His recent works includes modeling and simulation of lithium batteries, gear pumps, lubrication circuits and the definition of a numerical mixing index in a concrete truck mixer.