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Sauro Succi is an Italian scientist, internationally credited for being one of the founders of the successful Lattice Boltzmann method for
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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 (since 2000), Fellow of the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) and senior fellow of the
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. He is an alumnus of the University of Bologna, from which he earned a degree in
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, and the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, from which he obtained a PhD in plasma physics . He has published extensively in plasma physics,
fluid dynamics 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) an ...
, 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
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,
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, University of Chicago, Yale, Tufts, Queen Mary London,
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di Pisa and the Swiss Polytechnic of Zürich ( ETHZ). Since 2014, he is visiting professor at the IACS (
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of Harvard University), where he teaches Computational Methods for the Physical Sciences (AM227). Dr Succi is an elected Fellow of the
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(1998). He has received the Humboldt Prize in physics (2002), the
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bestowed by the University of Calgary (2005) and the
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of the Indian Academy of Sciences (2011) and the ''
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'' of the University of Bologna (2018). He also served as an external senior fellow at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (2009–2013), senior fellow of the
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in Vienna (2013) and Weston Chair at the Weizmann Institute of Science 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 (2015), and he features in the list of Top Italian Scientists

He has been awarded the 2017 American Physical Society, APS
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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 Prize
for "''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''".


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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

{{DEFAULTSORT:Succi, Sauro Living people 21st-century Italian physicists University of Bologna alumni Computational physicists Year of birth missing (living people)