Allison Mahvi is a professor of Mechanical Engineering at UW-Madison and is the director of the Laboratory for Energy Transport and Storage. She also has a joint appointment with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. She received her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology in 2018 and her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin – Madison in 2012. Between 2018 and 2019, Allison worked as a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and then transitioned to a second postdoctoral position at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, where she worked between 2019 and 2022. Allison’s research focus is in two-phase flows, surface enhancements, advanced thermal energy systems, and thermal energy storage devices.