Maria Vittoria Salvetti

EDUCATION
1989 - Degree in Aerospace Engineering at the University of Pisa (Italy)
1990-1993 - PhD in "Sciences de l'Ingenieur" at University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis. Research activity on numerical simulation of hypersonic flows, carried out at the Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique (Sophia-Antipolis, France).

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE AND ACADEMIC POSITIONS
1993-2001 - Assistant professor of fluid dynamics at the Aerospace Engineering Department of University of Pisa.
1994 - Visiting researcher at the Chemical Engineering Department of the University of California at Santa Barbara.
1995 - Visiting researcher at the Environmental Fluid Mechanics Laboratory of Stanford University (California).
2001-2012 - Associate professor of fluid dynamics at the Aerospace Engineering Department of University of Pisa.
2007 - 2014 - Associated researcher at the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (Pisa, Italy).
2004-2007 - Vice-president of the PhD course in Aerospace Engineering of the University of Pisa.
2007-2011 - President of the PhD course in Aerospace Engineering of the University of Pisa.
2012 - Full Professor in Fluid Dynamics at the University of Pisa
Since 2012 - Member of the council of the PhD in Industrial Engineering of the University of Pisa.
2014 -2017 – President of the BsC and Master courses in Aerospace Engineering of the University of Pisa.
2017-2020 – Vice-president of the Engineering School of the University of Pisa
2020-2024 – Head of the Civil and Industrial Engineering Department of the University of Pisa
ADDITIONAL ROLES AND CONTRIBUTIONS
Since 2011 –member of the Advisory Board of Acta Mechanica
Since 2014 - associate editor of Computers and Fluids
Since 2016, editor of the ERCOFTAC Book Series (Springer).
2016 – 2024 – member of the IUTAM (International Unit of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics) Congress Committee
2019-2023 – member of the Scientific and Technical Committee of the Italian Space Agency
2019-2021 - member of the Advisory Board of Flow, Turbulence and Combustion
2022 – 2024 - associate editor of Flow, Turbulence and Combustion
Since 2022 - member of the Council of EUROMECH (European Mechanics Society)
Since 2023 - Chairman of the Scientific Programme Committee of the European Research Community on Flow, Turbulence and Combustion (ERCOFTAC)
Since 2024 – editor in chief of Flow, Turbulence and Combustion
Organization of workshops, schools, lecture series and benchmarks. Some examples: benchmark BARC (http://www.aniviawe.org/barc/, 2008), workshop "Quality and Reliability of Large-Eddy Simulations II", Pisa (2009), Direct and Large-Eddy Simulation 11, Pisa, Italy (2017), Direct and Large-Eddy Simulation 12, Madrid, Spain (2018), FrontUQ19 - Workshop on Frontiers of Uncertainty Quantification in Fluid Dynamics, Pisa, Italy (2019), 13th International ERCOFTAC symposium on engineering, turbulence, modelling and measurements, Rhodes, Greece (2021), Direct and Large-Eddy Simulation 13, Udine, Italy (2022), 14th International ERCOFTAC symposium on engineering, turbulence, modelling and measurements, Barcelona, Spain (2023), Direct and Large-Eddy Simulation 14, Erlangen, Germany (2024), XVIII International Conference of the Italian Association for Wind Engineering (IN-VENTO 2024), Pisa, Italy (2024), 15th International ERCOFTAC symposium on engineering, turbulence, modelling and measurements, Dubrovnik, Croatia (2025).

RESEARCH TOPICS
Simulation and modeling, with special focus on Large-Eddy Simulation, of turbulent flows (bluff-body flows, particle-laden flows, wind turbines…), reduced-order models for fluid dynamics, flow instability, flow control, drag reduction, uncertainty quantification and stochastic sensitivity analysis in CFD, micro-fluidics, cardiovascular flows, hydrogen combustion.

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