Juliana Pacheco Duarte

Prof. Juliana Pacheco Duarte is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Nuclear Engineering & Engineering Physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research focuses on safety analysis, thermal-hydraulics, and risk assessment of advanced nuclear systems. Dr. Duarte’s expertise encompasses safety analysis, experimental design for studying two-phase heat transfer phenomena at high-pressure conditions, and computational thermal-hydraulic analysis using subchannel codes (COBRA, CTF) and system safety codes (TRACE, MELCOR). Her expertise encompasses several machine learning and statistical methods in safety, fire data, and reliability analysis. Before coming to the U.S., Dr. Duarte worked as a graduate student at the Brazilian Navy’s thermal-hydraulics division, designing critical heat flux experiments for nuclear propulsion reactors. She currently applies her expertise to the design of fusion machines.

Duarte holds a Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics from UW-Madison, an M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Sao Paulo, a B.Sc. degree in Nuclear Engineering from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, and a B.Sc. degree in Physics from the State University of Campinas.