Franco Cascella is a PhD candidate in Mechanical Engineering at Universite De Sherbrooke with extensive education and experience in energy engineering. He holds bachelor's and master's degrees from Politecnico di Milano and a master's from Ecole Politechnique de Montreal. His research focuses on modeling direct contact heat exchangers for supercritical water loops. He has worked as a teaching assistant, assistant at the SLOWPOKE nuclear reactor laboratory, and exam supervisor at Ecole Politechnique de Montreal. Franco is fluent in Italian, French, and English and has skills in MATLAB, COMSOL, LaTeX, and