Lucilla de Arcangelis is an Italian
statistical physicist known for her work on
percolation theory,
self-organized criticality,
power law
In statistics, a power law is a Function (mathematics), functional relationship between two quantities, where a Relative change and difference, relative change in one quantity results in a proportional relative change in the other quantity, inde ...
s in
fracture
Fracture is the separation of an object or material into two or more pieces under the action of stress. The fracture of a solid usually occurs due to the development of certain displacement discontinuity surfaces within the solid. If a displa ...
, and applications including
earthquake prediction and
neuroscience. She is a professor of physics at the
Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli
The University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli ( it, Università degli Studi della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli") is an Italian research university founded in late 1991. Its main seat is in Caserta, but its academic departments are also located in a se ...
(the University of Campania or Second University of Naples).
Education and career
De Arcangelis earned a
laurea from the
University of Naples Federico II in 1980. She completed her Ph.D. at
Boston University in 1986; her dissertation, ''Multifractality in Percolation: the Voltage Distribution'', was supervised by
Sidney Redner.
After postdoctoral or visiting research positions at the
University of Cologne,
Saclay Nuclear Research Centre
The CEA Paris-Saclay (formerly CEA Saclay) center is one of nine centers belonging to the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA). The Saclay site hosts the administrative headquarters of the CEA. Historically, it was the hea ...
, and
Forschungszentrum Jülich, she became a researcher for the
French National Centre for Scientific Research, working in the Laboratoire Physique et Mécanique des Milieux Hétérogènes at
ESPCI Paris, in 1990. She took an associate professorship at the
University of L'Aquila in 1993, and moved to the University of Campania in 1996, becoming full professor of the theoretical physics of condensed matter in the Department of Industrial and Information Engineering in 2014.
Recognition
In 2020, de Arcangelis was named a
Fellow of the American Physical Society
The American Physical Society honors members with the designation ''Fellow'' for having made significant accomplishments to the field of physics.
The following lists are divided chronologically by the year of designation.
* List of American Physic ...
(APS), after a nomination from the APS Division of Computational Physics, for "the discovery of new principles underlying the strong temporal correlations in avalanching critical systems, including fracture of disordered heterogeneous materials, solar flares, earthquakes, and dynamic balance between excitation and inhibition in the brain". Since 2021 she is Chair of the C3 Statistical Physics Commission of
IUPAP
The International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP ) is an international non-governmental organization whose mission is to assist in the worldwide development of physics, to foster international cooperation in physics, and to help in the ...
.
References
External links
Home page*
{{DEFAULTSORT:De Arcangelis, Lucilla
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
21st-century Italian physicists
Italian women physicists
University of Naples Federico II alumni
Boston University alumni
Fellows of the American Physical Society
Academic staff of the Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli