Phd in THEORETICAL AND APPLIED MECHANICS

email: carlomassimo.casciola@uniroma1.it
phone: 06 44585201

Curriculum vitae of Carlo Massimo Casciola

Personal Information
Family name, First name: CASCIOLA, Carlo Massimo
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Date of birth: January 10, 1962
Nationality: Italian

Current Position
2007 - Full Professor of Fluid Mechanics, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Meccanica e Aerospaziale -Dept. of (Sapienza), Italy.

Previous Positions
2000 - 2007 Associate Professor of Fluid Mechanics, DIMA, Sapienza, Italy.
1992 - 2002 Researcher of Fluid Mechanics, DIMA, Sapienza, Italy.
1986 - 1992 Researcher, INSEAN (National Ship Hydrodynamics Research Centre), Italy.


Fellowships And Awards
2010. Sapienza Excellence Research Award 2010, Sapienza, Italy

Supervision of Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Fellows
2000 - 2019 20 Postdocs/ 37 PhD/ order 100 Master Students DIMA, Sapienza, Italy.

Recent and Current Teaching Activities
2008 - Micro/nanofluidics, Master Degree in Nanotechnology Engineering, DIMA Sapienza, Italy.
2011 - Combustion and Turbulence, Master Degree in Mechanical Engineering, DIMA Sapienza, Italy.
2011 - Vehicle Aerodynamics, Master's Degree in Mechanical Engineering, DIMA Sapienza, Italy.
2008 - Turbulence, Master Degree in Aeronautic Engineering, DIMA Sapienza, Italy.
2011 - 2015 Biofluid dynamics, Master Degree in Biotechnology, Dept. Molecular Medicine, Sapienza, Italy.

Other courses taught along the years: Gas Dynamics (Università Degli Studi di Perugia, Italy), Fluid Dynamics (Bachelor Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Sapienza), Aerodynamics (Batchelor Degree in Aerospace Engineering, Sapienza), Fluid Mechanics (Bachelor Degree in Engineering Science, Sapienza), Laboratory of Vehicle Aerodynamics (Master Degree in Mechanical Engineering), Laboratory of Turbulence and Combustion (Master Degree in Mechanical Engineering), Laboratory of Numerical Aerodynamics (Bachelor Degree in Aerospace Engineering), Numerical Fluid Dynamics (Master Degree in Mechanical Engineering and Aeronautic Engineering).

PhD and Advanced Courses:
Two phase flow modeling, JSUT International Research and Education Forum Changzhou, 2019.
Fluid mechanics: from atomistic to continuous descriptions, UPMC-Sorbonne, January-February 2018.
Rare Event Techniques for Nucleation Problems, MSCA Training Network MIGRATE, Bastia, 2018.
Numerical Simulation of Wall Bounded Flows, National School in Matter Physics, Torino, 2014.
Energy fluxes in anisotropic turbulence and Particle clustering, Cargèse Summer School on Anisotropic Turbulence, France, 2011.
Advanced course on turbulent wall bounded flows, Linné Flow Center; KTH, Stockholm, 2008.
Scale-Energy Budget in Inhomogeneous Flow, Invited tutorial, ETC11 Porto, Portugal, 2007.
The Structure of Turbulence in Newtonian and Viscoelastic flows: Polymers and Drag Reduction, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, 2007.

Organization of Scientific Meetings
2018 Turbulence, Heat and Mass Transfer 18, Organizing Committee, Brazil.
2016 Workshop Non Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics and Turbulence, Organiser, Italy.
2015 Turbulence, Heat and Mass Transfer 15, Scientific Advisory Committee, Bosnia Herzegovina.
2014 Workshop Superhydrophobicity, bubble stability, and heterogeneous nucleation, Organizer, Italy.
2012 Turbulence, Heat and Mass Transfer 12, Scientific Advisory Committee, Italy.
2013 European Turbulence Conference 14, Scientific Committee, France.
2011 European Turbulence Conference 13, Organiser, Poland.
2009 AIMETA 2009 Conference, Scientific Advisory Committee, Italy
2008 iTi Conference 2008, Organizing Committee, Italy

Institutional Responsibilities
2022 - Domain Panel Rapporteur for the EuroHPC JU (Joint Undertaking) for deploying HPC infrastructure and an ecosystem in supercomputing technologies.
2018 - Member of AIMETA Directory Board, Italy.
2007 - 2017 Director of the PhD Program in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Sapienza, Italy.
2008 - 2016 Director of the Master Program in Nanotechnology Engineering, Sapienza, Italy.
2010 - 2015 Member of the EuroMech Turbulence Conference Steering Committee (2010- )
2012 - 2016 Director of Sapienza-IT CECAM Centre, Roma, Italy.
2014 - 2017 Member of the PRACE Scientific Steering Committee.
Committee Member CINECA Tenders: PPI4HPC-Evolution of Tier0 systems towards exascale; FENIX Infrastructure within ICEI (Interactive Computing e-Infrastructure).

Reviewing Activities
2021 - Microsystem Technology, Editorial Board.
2017 - International Journal of Multiphase Flows, Editorial Advisory Board.
2012 - 2018 Meccanica, Editorial Board.
2011 - Flow Turbulence and Combustion, Editorial Advisory Board.
2008 - Acta Mechanica, Editorial Advisory Board.

Section Editor of the volume Molecular Modeling in the Encyclopedia of Nanotechnology, (Bushan ed., Springer, 2016).
Reviewer for a number of prestigious journals, e.g., J. Fluid Mechanics, Physical Review Letters, Nature, Nature Comm., ACS Nano, Scientific Reports, Phys. Rev. Fluids, Physics of Fluids, Lab on a Chip.
Memberships of Scientific Societies
1988 - Associated Member of AIMETA, Italian Association of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics.
2000 - Associated Member of EUROMECH.
2006 - Founding Member, CNIS (Sapienza Centre for Engineering Nanotechnology), Sapienza, Italy

- Ten years track-record

Carlo Massimo Casciola coordinates a research group formed by a varying number of components, typically between 15 and 20 including permanent research staff, associate professors, post-docs, and Ph.D. students, operating in the field of complex fluids. Under the PI’s guidance, the group dealt with theoretical, numerical and experimental aspects of fluid mechanics, to be understood in a wide sense, ranging from scaling laws in turbulence, viscoelasticity, particle transport in turbulence, microfluidics, nanofluidics, Direct Numerical Simulations, phase transition and nucleation processes, cavitation, wettability, protein translocation, biological barriers permeabilization. During these years the PI contributed to establishing a microfluidic lab in the premises of the Center for Life NanoScience of the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, dedicated, in particular, to microfluidic application for biology and medicine, including cavitation damage in different kinds of materials.

Research activity and publications span an uncommonly large range of scientific techniques and interests, including molecular dynamics, free-energy and rare event methods, phase-field approaches for mesoscale modeling, fluctuating hydrodynamics, specialized numerical techniques, micro-fabrication, and design of microfluidic chips, also for biological and biomedical applications. The activity is strongly multidisciplinary, involving disciplines such as fluid mechanics, statistical mechanics, applied mathematics, experimental physics, fabrication technology, material science, biology, and medicine.

The opportunity to enlarge the scientific expertise partly followed by the interaction with CECAM (Centre Européenn de Calcul Atomique and Moléculair), the trans-European organization based in Lausanne fostering fundamental research in on advanced computational methods as Director of the Sapienza-IT CECAM Centre that allowed contact with renowned researchers active in many different fields.

During these years the PI gained substantial experience in the field of High Performance Computing, initially as an awardee of PRACE (Partnership for advanced computing in Europe) peer-reviewed computational grants for computational resources on Tier0 European HPC infrastructures and successively as member of the PRACE scientific committee and, quite recently, being consulted by the CINECA HPC infrastructure for the acquisition of pre-exascale machines.

In the 2013 call, the PI was awarded the prestigious ERC Advanced Grant for the project BIC (Cavitation across scales: following Bubble from Inception to Collapse, agreement # 339446–BIC), where multi-scale simulation techniques where conceived and developed to address the elusive problem of bubble nucleation addressed from the fundamental perspective of atomistic simulation to innovative mesoscale techniques. Besides direct application to cavitation, unexpected results dealt with nucleation in nanoscale confinement and intrusion extrusion mechanics in nanoporous materials. Among the technological results, was the development of a new photonic pressure sensor for bubble collapse induced shock wave detection. The results obtained in the BIC context received attention also from nonspecialized media, with TV, radio, and newspaper interviews.
As a follow-up of the project BIC, the PI obtained fundings from the ERC Proof-of-Concept (2017 call) for developing the INVICTUS (IN VItro Cavitation Through UltraSound, proposal # 779751) platform for the study of cavitation enhanced endothelial permeability. The idea was realizing a standardized platform hosting a living and biologically functional endothelial layer to mimic a blood vessel on a chip, to understand the effect of ultrasound irradiated microbubbles in increasing the endothelial layer permeability in view of target drag delivery, and brain blood barrier opening.
At the moment the PI is in charge of the microfluidics unit of project NEON (PON funded by the Italian Ministry for Instruction, University and Research, MIUR) for theranostics applications.
Among the achievements, mentoring of promising students and fostering young researchers enrolled in the PI’s research group eventually resulted in an ERC-Starting-Grant awardee, a Marie Sklodowska Curie individual fellowship winner, four recently appointed associate professors in Italy and abroad.
Funding ID.
2020 Sapienza Large Projects, Dynamics of Biological and Artificial Lipid Bilayer Membranes, 65,000 €
2018-2022 PON NEON, Research Unit Microfluidics, 300,000.00 €.
2018-2019 Sapienza Project, 35,000.00 €.
2014 - 2018 ERC - Advanced Grant BIC, 2,491,000.00 €.
2017 - 2018 ERC Proof-of-Concept INVICTUS, 150,000.00 €.
2014 - 2015 Sapienza Award, 34,000.00 €.
2013 Sapienza Funding for Equipment, Computational Cluster, 120,000.00 €.
2012 Sapienza Equipment Grant 2012: “Shuttle and Find Correlation Microscopy System for CNIS SEM and Fluorescence Microscope” (simultaneous acquisition at nano and micro scale for bio-applications)

Computational Grants.

PRACE 23rd call, 2021. Project HPC simulations of natural and bio-inspired micro-cavitating systems, 45 cumulative core Mhours.
PRACE 20th call, 2020. Project BIMI - Bubble dynamics from nanoscale Inception to Macroscale hydrodynamic Interaction. 35 Mhours on CINECA Marconi 100.
PRACE 14th call, 2016. Project POREH20 - Simulations of hydrophobic nanoporous materials immersed in water for energy storage and dissipation, 50 Mhours on CINECA Marconi KNL.
PRACE 7th call, 2013. WETMD - Unravelling the Salvinia paradox: towards a new generation of superhydrophobic surfaces, 31 Mhours on CINECA Fermi.

Bibliometry.
The complete collection of published papers can be found at https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=iIiWpyoAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate. The Hirsh Index is H = 30, based on the Scopus Database, with 2943 citations and 180 published papers.

In the last 10 years the PI and his group published on the most prestigious journals. It may be worth mentioning: 2 ACS-Nano (IF = 13.9), 1 Small (IF = 12.02), 1 Nano Letters (IF = 11.19), 1 PNAS (IF = 9.58), 2 Physical Review Letters (IF = 9.22), 2 Nanoscale (IF = 7.79), 1 Lab on Chip (IF = 6.8), 1 Advanced Material Interfaces (IF = 4.7), 2 Langmuir (IF = 3.79), 1 Applied Physics Letters (IF = 3.79), 2 Soft Matter (IF = 3.4), 14 Journal of Fluid Mechanics (IF = 2.89).

10 Most Cited Papers
1. Giacomello A, Meloni S, Chinappi M, & Casciola CM (2012) Cassie–Baxter and Wenzel states on a nanostructured surface: phase diagram, metastabilities, and transition mechanism by atomistic free energy calculations. Langmuir 28(29):10764-10772. https://doi.org/10.1021/la3018453.
2. De Angelis E, Casciola CM, & Piva R (2002) DNS of wall turbulence: dilute polymers and self-sustaining mechanisms. Computers & fluids 31(4-7):495-507. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0045-7930(01)00069-X.
3. Giacomello A, Chinappi M, Meloni S, & Casciola CM (2012) Metastable wetting on superhydrophobic surfaces: Continuum and atomistic views of the Cassie-Baxter–Wenzel transition. Physical review letters 109(22):226102. 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.226102.
4. Magaletti F, Picano F, Chinappi M, Marino L, & Casciola CM (2013) The sharp-interface limit of the Cahn–Hilliard/Navier–Stokes model for binary fluids. Journal of Fluid Mechanics 714:95-126. https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2012.461.
5. Sardina G, Schlatter P, Brandt L, Picano F, & Casciola CM (2012) Wall accumulation and spatial localization in particle-laden wall flows. Journal of Fluid Mechanics 699:50-78. https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2012.65.
6. Marati N, Casciola CM, & Piva R (2004) Energy cascade and spatial fluxes in wall turbulence. Journal of Fluid Mechanics 521:191-215. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022112004001818.
7. Gualtieri P, Picano F, Sardina G, & Casciola CM (2015) Exact regularized point particle method for multiphase flows in the two-way coupling regime. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2015, 773, pp. 520–561. https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2015.258.
8. Cimarelli A, De Angelis E, & Casciola CM (2013) Paths of energy in turbulent channel flow, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2013, 715, pp. 436–451. https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2012.528.
9. Gualtieri P, Picano F, & Casciola CM (2009) Anisotropic clustering of inertial particles in homogeneous shear flow. Journal of Fluid Mechanics 629:25-39. https://doi.org/10.1017/S002211200900648X.
10. Picano F, Sardina G, & Casciola CM (2009) Spatial development of particle-laden turbulent pipe flow, Physics of Fluids, 2009, 21(9), 093305. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3241992.