Sauro Succi#
| Membership Number: | 4053 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2015 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ITALY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.iac.rm.cnr.it/~succi |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2015/9-12 Visiting Professor of Computational Science, Harvard University, USA
- 2014/9-12 Visiting Professor of Computational Science, Harvard University, USA
- 2009-2013 External Senior Fellow, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, GER
- 2010/1-3 Guest Professor, ETHZ, SWI
- 2009/1-3 Guest Professor, ETHZ, SWI
- 2008 - 2009 Visiting Scholar, Initiative for Innovative Computing, Harvard University,USA
- 1995 - current Director of Research, Istituto Applicazioni del Calcolo, Rome, ITA
- 1986 - 1995 Senior Research Scientist, IBM Europ. Ctr. Sci. and Eng. Computing, ITA
- 1982 - 1986 PhD Student, Centre de Recherches en Physique des Plasmas, Lausanne, SWI
- 1981 Euratom Fellow, Max-Planck Institut for PlasmaPhysik, Garching, GER
Fields of Scholarship
- Kinetic theory
- High performance computing
- Classical and quantum fluid dynamics
- Statistical mechanics
- Computational physics
Honours and Awards
- 2024 Co-recipient of the Premio Aspen Institute Italia 2024 per la collaborazione scientifica tra Italia e Stati Uniti
- 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"
- 2017 APS Aneesur Rahman Prize for Computational Physics
- 2015 Weston Visiting Professor award, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
- 2014 P.L. Bhatnagar Memorial lecture, 59th ISTAM Conf., Bangalore (declined for contingental reasons)
- 2014 Opening Plenary talk at the XXVI IUPAP Conference on Computational Physics, Boston
- 2011 Raman Chair of the Indian Academy of Sciences
- 2011 Gordon Bell Prize co-finalist, honorable mention
- 2010 Gordon Bell Prize co-finalist
- 2006 Annual Distinguished Lecture, Univ. of Leicester
- 2005 Killam Visiting Scholar Award, Univ. of Calgary
- 2002 Alexander von Humboldt Award in Physics
- 1999 Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society
- 1998 Fellow of the American Physical Society
