Gianni Pedrizzetti (born 7 September 1963 in
Prato
Prato ( , ) is a city and ''comune'' in Tuscany, Italy, the capital of the Province of Prato. The city lies in the north east of Tuscany, at the foot of Monte Retaia, elevation , the last peak in the Calvana chain. With more than 200,000 i ...
,
Italy) is an Italian engineer who is a professor in
fluid mechanics at the
University of Trieste. His research is the application of fluid mechanics to cardiovascular science.
Biography
Pedrizzetti earned his BS and MS degree in 1987 from the
University of Florence in the Faculty of Engineering. In 1992 he received the title of
Doctor of Philosophy, in
hydrodynamics
In physics and engineering, fluid dynamics is a subdiscipline of fluid mechanics that describes the flow of fluids—liquids and gases. It has several subdisciplines, including ''aerodynamics'' (the study of air and other gases in motion) and ...
, from the
University of Padova
The University of Padua ( it, Università degli Studi di Padova, UNIPD) is an Italian university located in the city of Padua, region of Veneto, northern Italy. The University of Padua was founded in 1222 by a group of students and teachers from B ...
with studies on vortex dynamics and turbulence. He carried out postdoctoral studies at the
University of California in San Diego
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(INLS) in 1992, working on theoretical aspects of turbulence, and at the
Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (ETSIA) in 1994. Pedrizzetti has also been a visiting scientist at the
University of San Diego
The University of San Diego (USD) is a private Roman Catholic research university in San Diego, California. Chartered in July 1949 as the independent San Diego College for Women and San Diego University (comprising the College for Men and Schoo ...
(US) in 1995 and a visiting senior research associate at the
University of Cambridge (UK) in 1998, while he was a permanent researcher at the University of Firenze from 1992 to 1998. Soon after, he became associate professor at the University of Trieste. In 2006 Pedrizzetti obtained the title of full professor and continued his academic activities in biomechanics at the University of Trieste. Currently, he also serves as adjunct professor in
bioengineering
Biological engineering or
bioengineering is the application of principles of biology and the tools of engineering to create usable, tangible, economically-viable products. Biological engineering employs knowledge and expertise from a number o ...
in the Faculty of Medicine at the
University of Florence.
References
* http://www.dica.univ.trieste.it/perspage/gianni/
* http://www.dica.univ.trieste.it/perspage/gianni/education.htm
* https://web.archive.org/web/20120325124825/http://www.labome.org/expert/italy/university/pedrizzetti/gianni-pedrizzetti-826422.html
* http://patent.ipexl.com/inventor/Gianni_Pedrizzetti_1.html
* http://web.tiscali.it/muenribloce/
External links
* http://kheradvar.eng.uci.edu/people.php?id=gpedrizz
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1963 births
Living people
Italian engineers