Sauro Succi is an Italian
scientist
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, internationally credited for being one of the founders of the successful
Lattice Boltzmann
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method for
fluid dynamics
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and
soft matter.
From 1995 to 2018, Succi has been research director at the Istituto Applicazioni Calcolo of the
National Research Council (CNR) in Rome.
Since 2018, he has been appointed principal investigator of the research line Mesoscale Simulations at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT).
He is also a research affiliate to the Physics Department at
Harvard University
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(since 2000), Fellow of the
Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) and senior fellow of the
.
He is an alumnus of the
University of Bologna
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, from which he earned a degree in
nuclear engineering
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, and the
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
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, from which he obtained a PhD in
.
He has published extensively in
,
fluid dynamics
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,
kinetic theory,
quantum fluids and
soft, flowing matter.
He has also authored the well-known monographs "The lattice Boltzmann
Equation for fluid dynamics and beyond", (2001, Clarendon Press.)
and "The Lattice Boltzmann Equation for complex States of Flowing Matter", (2018, Oxford Univ. Press.
"Sailing the Ocean of Complexity: lessons from the physics-biology frontier", (2022, Oxford Univ. Press.
Dr Succi has been holding visiting/teaching appointments at many academic Institutions, such as the University of
Harvard,
Paris VI
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,
University of Chicago
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,
Yale
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,
Tufts
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,
Queen Mary London,
Scuola Normale Superiore
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It was founded in 1810 wi ...
di Pisa and the Swiss Polytechnic of Zürich (
ETHZ
(colloquially)
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, president = Joël Mesot
, ac ...
).
Since 2014, he is visiting professor at the IACS (
Institute of Applied Computational Science
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of
Harvard University
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), where he teaches Computational Methods for the Physical Sciences (AM227).
Dr Succi is an elected Fellow of the
American Physical Society (1998). He has received the
Humboldt Prize
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in physics (2002), the
Killam Award
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bestowed by the
University of Calgary
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(2005) and the
Raman Chair
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of the
Indian Academy of Sciences
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(2011) and the ''
Sigillum Magnum
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'' of the
University of Bologna
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(2018). He also served as an external senior fellow at the
Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (2009–2013), senior fellow of the
in Vienna (2013) and Weston Chair at the
Weizmann Institute of Science
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in Rehovot (2016) and External Faculty Member of the
Institute for Advanced Studies of Amsterdam (2017).
In 2022 he has been appointed
Honorary Professor at University College London.
Dr Succi is an elected member of the
Academia Europaea
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The Academia was founded in 1988 as a functioning Europe-wide Academy that encompasses all fields of scholarly inquiry. It acts as co-ordinator of Europea ...
(2015), and he features in the list of Top Italian Scientists
He has been awarded the 2017
American Physical Society, APS Aneesur Rahman Prize for Computational Physics
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.
In 2017 he has been awarded the
ERC Advanced Grant "Computational design of porous mesoscale materials (
COPMAT)".
He has been awarded th
2019 Berni J. Alder CECAM Prizefor "''having transformed the
Lattice-Boltzmann method into an overarching framework for kinetic physical phenomena. In addition, he has been pivotal in building and constantly inspiring a community now counting tens of thousands of researchers in academia and industry, all across chemistry and physics, and reaching into more distant fields such as engineering or biology''".
References
External links
* Dr. Succi's personal homepag
* Killam Awar
* Raman Chair, Indian Academy of Science
* Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studie
Biography; Freiburg Institute for Advanced Study* The Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematical Physic
* Weizmann Institute of Scienc
* Aneesur Rahman Prize for Computational Physics, Official Pag
Top Italian Scientists* Berni J. Alder CECAM Prize, Official Pag
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Living people
21st-century Italian physicists
University of Bologna alumni
Computational physicists
Year of birth missing (living people)