Dr. Francesco Coletti

Francesco is the CEO of Hexxcell Ltd., a London-based software and consulting company focussed on the development of Hybrid-AI Digital Twins for heat transfer systems. Francesco has a track-record of developing industrial digital solutions from ideation, R&D all the way to deployment in the field, with particular focus on combining physics-based models with Artificial Intelligence for monitoring, optimization and predictive maintenance of process and energy systems. Prior to Hexxcell, Francesco worked as a Development Specialist at the Linde Technology Center in Buffalo, NY. He is also a part-time Associate Professor at Brunel University London where he contributed to the launch of a new Chemical Engineering Department and was a visiting academic at Imperial College London (2016-2017).
Francesco has been elected Fellow of the Energy Institute in 2023. He is one of two elected representatives for the UK serving on the Scientific Committee of the International Heat Transfer Conference. He was elected to the UK National Heat Transfer Committee in 2014 and subsequently appointed as its Secretary in 2015. Since 2019 he is a Director of AIChE Fuels&Petrochemical Division and is currently serving as the Chair of the Division. He is involved with The organization of several international conferences, including the Topical Series on Heat Exchangers held every two years at the AIChE Spring Meeting which he initiated and chairs. He is the Executive Editor of Heat Exchanger Design Handbook and the co-editor of the first monograph dedicated to Crude Oil Fouling. He has published over 80 scientific contributions including journal articles and peer-reviewed conference proceeding and holds two patents.
Francesco holds a Laurea degree in Chemical Engineering from Padova University, Italy; an MSc in Process Systems Engineering and a PhD in Chemical Engineering from Imperial College London, UK