Career
Since 1995, Succi has been Research Director at the Istituto Applicazioni Calcolo of the National Research Council (National Research Council) in Rome. He is also a Research Affiliate to the Physics Department at Harvard University (from 2000), Fellow of the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) and Senior Fellow of the Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematical Physics. He is an alum of the University of Bologna, from which he earned a degree in nuclear engineering, and the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, from which he obtained a Doctor of Philosophy in plasma physics in 1987.
He has published extensively in plasma physics, fluid dynamics, kinetic theory and quantum fluids.
He has also authored the well-known monograph "The lattice Boltzmann equation for fluid dynamics and beyond", (Oxford University Press). Doctor Succi has been holding visiting/teaching appointments at many academic Institutions, such as the University of Harvard, Paris VI, University of Chicago, Yale, Tufts, Queen Mary London and Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa.
Doctor Succi is an elected Fellow of the American Physical Society (1998). He as also served as an External Senior Fellow at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (2009-2013) and Senior Fellow of the Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematical Physics in Vienna (2013).
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