Dr. Sauro Succi: Short Curriculum Vitae

Education

Dr. Succi holds a degree in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Bologna, Italy, and a Ph.D. in plasma physics from the Swiss Polytechnic Institute in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Keywords: Statistical physics, Computational Physics and Biology, Applied Mathematics, Classical and Quantum Fluid Dynamics,

• 1995-: Permanent Position: Research Director, IAC-CNR, Rome

Professional Appointments

• 2010: Visiting Professor, Mathematics Department, Yale University (Oct-Dec)

• 2010: Member of the Core Group of the Physical and Engineering Standing Commmitte, Europ. Science Foundation

• 2009-2011: Fellow of the Freiburg Institute of Advanced Studies, Freiburg, Germany

• 2009-current: Guest Professor, Swiss Polytechnic Institute, Zurich Science Foundation

• 2008-current: CNR-representative in the Standing Committee PESC (Physical and Engineering SCiences) of the European Science Foundation

• 2008-2010: IIC-supported Visiting Scientist, Initiative for Innovative Computing, Harvard University,

• 2006-: Senior Visiting Scientist, Mathematics Department, Tufts Univesity, Boston, USA

• 2002-5: Visiting EPRSC Fellow, Center for Computational Science, Queen Mary College, University of London

• 2001-2: Visiting Research Scientist, Physics and Cell Biology Dept., Harvard Universit and harvard Medical School

• 2000-current: Research Affiliate, Physics Department, Harvard University,

• 1999: Visiting Professor, Mathematics Department, Yale University,

· 1995-: Research Director, Institute of Computing Applications, Rome.

Employer: National Research Council

Position: Research Director in Differential Modeling and Numerical Analysis (permanent).

Activity: Coordination of a research group in applied mathematics and numerical modeling of complex non-linear dynamical systems (see main IAC website).

• 1995: Visiting Professor, Physics Department, University of Chicago,
• 1993: Visiting Professor, Mechanical Modeling Department, University of Paris VI,

· 1986-95: Industry sector coordinator, IBM European Center Scientific Engineering Computing, Rome

Employer: International Business Machines

Position: Industry sector coordinator, senior researcher, researcher Computational Physics/Engineering Group at the IBM European Center for Scientific and Engineering Computing (ECSEC)

Activity: Development of computational models and algorithms for physics and engineering applications on parallel computers. Consulting to the operations of the Scientific and Technical Computing Business Unit of IBM Europe. Scientific-technical coordination of joint projects with IBM european partners in the field of computational physics/engineering.

· 1982-1986: PhD degree in Physics, Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne}

Employer: Centre de Recherches en Physique des Plasmas, Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland.

Position: Ph.D. student

Activity: Day-by-day use of magnetohydrodynamic stability codes for computing the stability limits of the JET (Joint European Torus) tokamak and develoment of mathematical and computer models for plasma heating via magnetohydrodynamic Alfven waves.

· 1981-82: Fellowship holder, Max Planck Institut fuer Plasmaphysik, Garching (Germany)

Employer: EURATOM, Brussels

Position: Fellowship holder

Activity: Analysis and development of mathematical models and numerical Monte Carlo algorithms for thermonuclear plasma heating via neutral beam injection.

· 1980-81: Fellowship holder, Ente Nazionale Energie Alternative

Employer: Dipartimento Reattori Veloci, Ente Energie Alternative (ENEA) Bologna

Position: Fellowship holder

Activity: Analysis and development of mathematical models and numerical algorithms for the optimal control of fast breeder reactors.



Scientific activity

Publications

Dr Succi has (co)authored over 250 papers in refereed international journals and over 80 papers in Conference proceedings, in the fields of plasma physics, kinetic theory, fluid dynamics, condensed matter computational biology and parallel computing. He has also authored three books on Cellular Automata (Franco Angeli, Milan 1991), Parallel Computational Fluid Dynamics (Nova Science, NY, 1996) and The Lattice Boltzmann Equation for Fluid Dynamics and Beyond (Oxford University Press, 2001) .

Other professional activities:

· Dr Succi has been holding visiting positions at the Universites of Rome, Paris, Chicago and Harvard. He also spent short-term visits at Princeton Univ., Harvard University, Yale University, Centers for Computational Science in Boston, London, Amsterdam and Taiwan, the European Center for Atomic and Molecular Physics, Lyon, the Swiss Polytechnic Institute in Lausanne, Switzerland, and Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Italy, where he holds regular courses in computational physics and mathematical modelling of complex systems.

· He serves as a referee for numerous physics\&computing Journals and as an associate editor of the International Journal of Modern Physics C: Physics and Computers, Physica A, Journal of Scientific Computing, Applied Rheology, Comm. in Comp. Physics, Europhysics Letters, Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment.

· He has been delivering over hundred seminars, invited talks and series of lectures in most european countries, Israel, USA, Japan, China and Taiwan.

· He served in over thirty International Boards and Scientific Committees including the Center for Advanced Studies in Sardinia, one of the largest Research and Development facilities in Europe, headed by Prof N. Cabibbo and formerly by Nobel laureate Prof Carlo Rubbia.

· He has codirected over thirty thesis works in Mathematics, Physics and Engineering at the Universities of Roma, Catania, Florence.

· Since 1998 he is affiliated with the Physics Department of the University of Roma, "La Sapienza" and "Scuola Normale di Pisa".

· Since 2000 he is affiliated with the Physics Department of Harvard University

· He's member of the Italian Society for Applied and Industrial Mathematics , American Society for Applied Mathematics, the European Physical Society, the American Physical Society and the New York Academy of Sciences.

Honors/Awards/Distinctions

Dr Succi belongs to the list of the Top Italian Scientists (9700+ Google Scholar cites, h=40, as of Jan 2012) (http://www.topitalianscientists.org/Top_italian_scientists_VIA-Academy.aspx). .

2012:  Raman Lecture, Indian Institute of Sciences, Bangalore.

2012:  Alexander von Humboldt continuation Award,

2011:  Raman Chair of the Indian Academy of Sciences.

2011:  Gordon-Bell finalist, with the paper "Petaflops biofluidic simulations on a 2 million core system" (M. Bernaschi et al),

2010:  Gordon-Bell finalist, with the paper "Multiscale simulation of cardiovascular flows on the IBM Bluegene/P: full heart-circulation system at near red-blood cell resolution" (A. Peters et al),

2010:  Invitation to Nobel Symposium 151: Water in Biology and Medicine, Stockholm

2009:  Invitation to write a Scholarpedia article on the Lattice Boltzmann method.

2009:  Fellowship of the Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, UK.

2009:  Fellow of the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), Freiburg, Germany.

2009:  Leonardo Melandri Prize, Province of Forli-Cesena.

2008:  The paper "Lattice Gas Dynamics with Enhanced Collisions" has been included in the collection 'Most cited articles from EPL Historic Archive', containing the 40 most cited papers from the birth of Europhysics Letters in 1986.

2007:  Best Workshop Paper Award, 7th International Conf. on Computational Science, Beijing, May 2007, M. Fyta, S. Melchionna, E. Kaxiras, S. Succi, 'Multiscale modeling of biopolymer translocation through a nanopore', Lecture Notes in Computational Science, to appear.


2006:  Annual Distinguished Lecture, Univ. of Leicester, UK


2006:  Killam Award, University of Calgary, Canada
2002:  Alexander von Humboldt Award, Germany

1999: Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society, Division of Computational Physics:

For development and application of Lattice Boltzmann methods and other computational methods which succesfully marry continuum and statistical mechanics approaches to complex physics problems

1997: Golden Medal of the Pro-Forli Cultural Committee as a distinguished non-resident citizen.

1996-: Who's who in the world biographee, 13th ed. (1996) onwards.

1995: Window-on-Science Award, US Air Force Office of Research, Hanscom, USA,

1989-93:Three IBM certificates and three IBM internal prizes in appreciation for publishing outstanding scientific papers.

Associate Editor of: Journal of Scientific Computing, International Journal of Modern Physics C, Applied Rheology, Communications in Computational Physics, Physica A, Europhysics Letters (Statistical Physics), Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment .

Alia

Dr Succi is fluent in English, French and survives reasonably with his German and Spanish.