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ORCID : 0000-0001-7201-2965
Email : alessandrasabina dot lanotte at cnr dot it
Ph: +39 0832 319 840
I am a Research Director of Theoretical Physics at the Institute of Nanotechnology of the National Research Council.
I work in the area of classical fluid dynamics, with a specific interest on statistical approaches to out-of equilibrium systems. The primary focus of my work is to characterize turbulent systems by means of statistical theory. For this, I use numerical simulations as a method of investigation.
Recently, I pursued statistical approaches for the fluid behaviour of out-of-equilibrium quantum systems, such as quantum fluids of light made of exciton-polaritons. This has led to a strong collaborations with Dr. Dario Ballarini and Dr. Daniele Sanvitto of the group of Advanced Photonics at CNR NANOTEC. Also, I collaborate with Prof. Marco Vanni, from the Politecnico di Torino, on colloidal suspensions in complex flows. My long-lasting collaborators include Luca Biferale, Massimo Cencini and Matthaus Baebler.
LONG VISITS
2015 NCAR, Boulder, Colorado
2012 KITPC, Beijing, China : "New Trends in Turbulence"
2011 KITP, Santa Barbara California: "The Nature of Turbulence"
2008 KITP, Santa Barbara California: "Physics of Climate Change"
2005 OCA Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur, Nice, France
2003 NCAR, Boulder, Colorado
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
01/2024 - 04/2024 Editor-in-Chief at Europhysics Letters (EPL)
10/2020 - 12/2023 Deputy Editor at EPL
04/2018- 09/2020 Co-Editor at EPL
2017 - 2021 Vice-Chair ICTR International Collaboration for Turbulence Research
02/2016 - 09/2018 Associate Editor for Physics of Fluids
2017 - 2020 Expert Member of the Mechanical Engineering Panel for the Swedish Research Council
04/2013 - today Local Principal Investigator (INFN Unit of Lecce) of the research project
"Particles & Fields in Turbulence and in Complex Flows", Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare.
2012 Abilitazione Scietifica Nazionale as Associate Professor in SSN
02/A2 "Fisica Teorica delle Interazioni Fondamentali",
02/B2 "Fisica Teorica della Materia";
02/C1 " Astronomia, Astrofisica, Fisica della Terra e dei Pianeti".
12/2008 - 12/2012 Managing Committee COST Action "Particles in Turbulence"
SHORTLY
In July 1995, I got my Master Degree in Physics at La Sapienza University (Rome, Italy), with a thesis on "Turbulence in viscoelastic flows", with the supervision of Roberto Benzi and Giorgio Parisi.
In July 1995, I got my Master Degree in Physics at La Sapienza University (Rome, Italy), with a thesis on "Turbulence in viscoelastic flows", with the supervision of Roberto Benzi and Giorgio Parisi.
From 1996 until 1999, I moved to Nice (FR) and did a PhD in Physics of the University of Nice at the Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur, as a Marie Curie fellow. My PhD supervisors were Massimo Vergassola and Uriel Frisch.
The PhD work was on "Anisotropy and structures in the turbulent transport". I studied anomalous scaling laws in anisotropic passive scalar, passive vector turbulence (kinematic dynamo), and passive scalar intermittency in a shell model of turbulence, by means of an instanton approach. My most important contribution is the demonstration that a large-scale dynamo can exist in parity-invariant flows, by negative magnetic eddy diffusivities as first suggested by R. H. Kraichnan.
From April 2000 until December 2001, I worked as a Post-Doc with Luca Biferale, at the Physics Department of Tor Vergata University (Rome, Italy). The research subject was "Anisotropy in Turbulence".
Starting from December 2001, I joined the National Research Council (CNR), with a permanent position as junior researcher at the Institute for Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, in Lecce (Italy).
Since then, I integrated my background on the statistical properties of ideal turbulent flows, with knowledge about geophysical fluid dynamics. In particular, on the Lagrangian transport of inertial particles in turbulent flows. My most important contribution is the demonstration that high-Reynolds number turbulence can significantly impact the size distribution of droplets in cumulus clouds, and hence favour the rapid formation of rain drops.
From March 2008 until June 2012, I have been Lecturer for a class on Deterministic Chaos, at the Physics Dept. of the University Tor Vergata. Since 2022, I give the same class at the Mathematics Dept. of Unisalento.
Starting from December 2018, I have a position at the Institute of Nanotechnology (CNR NANOTEC), in Lecce (IT), where I started to work on the dynamics of vortices in quantum fluids of light, i.e. exciton-polariton systems.
From November 2019 until December 2022, I held a position of Senior Researcher.
Starting from January 2023, I hold a position of Research Director at CNR NANOTEC.