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Everything flows, but how?
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Federico Toschi is full professor at the departments of Applied Physics and of Mathematics and Computer Science at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). His research focuses on the emerging complexity in challenging multi-scale problems at the crossroad between statistical physics, fluid mechanics, soft condensed matter and bio-physics. How do small-scale interactions and forces lead to large-scale complexity and chaos? How to analytically and numerically model complex flow problems? Federico’s research employs experimental, numerical and theoretical methods and covers -amongst others- fluid dynamics turbulence; lagrangian turbulence; thermal convection; complex fluids; soft condensed matter; active matter; crowd dynamics; scientific computing and Lattice Boltzmann methods.
Several of Federico's research topics are strongly interdisciplinary and involve pushing the boundaries of physics across different disciplines. In the computational aspects of his work he pursues innovation of numerical methods as well as large-scale, massively parallel, numerical simulations. His research is embedded in the 4TU Centre of Excellence for Multiscale Phenomena, the JMBC Burgerscentrum for fluid dynamics, and the Eindhoven Multiscale Institute. He teaches general courses on fluid mechanics, mathematical and computational physics, dynamical systems and chaos for Applied Physics BSc and MSc students. He served the scientific community by chairing two COST Action on “Particles in turbulence” and “Flowing matter”. He is one of the Founders of the start-up Flow Matters Holding BV.
Academic background
Federico Toschi graduated (summa cum laude) in Physics at University of Pisa (Italy) and at Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa (Italy, 1995). In 1998 he received his PhD in Physics from the University of Pisa (Italy) with a thesis on the fundamental statistical properties of fluid dynamics turbulence. He has worked at the University of Twente (The Netherlands, 1990-2001), at Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon (France, 2001) and at the Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo of the National Research Council (Italy, 2001-2008). In 2008, he was appointed full professor of Computational Physics of Multi-scale Transport Phenomena at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e, the Netherlands). Federico is a fellow of the American Physical Society (APS, 2015), has been a visiting scientist at University of Chicago and Stanford (USA). He has published more than 200 peer-reviewed papers and provided more than 100 invited talks and seminars.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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Build up of yield stress fluids via chaotic emulsification
Girotto, I., Benzi, R., Di Staso, G., Scagliarini, A., Schifano, S. F. & Toschi, F., 6 May 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Turbulence. XX, X, p. 1-11 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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Drag and lift coefficients of ellipsoidal particles under rarefied flow conditions
Livi, C., Di Staso, G., Clercx, H. J. H. & Toschi, F., 13 Jan 2022, In: Physical Review E. 105, 1-2, 16 p., 015306.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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Implications of the statistics of seismicity recorded within the Groningen gas field
Trampert, J., Benzi, R. & Toschi, F., May 2022, In: Netherlands Journal of Geosciences. Geologie en Mijnbouw. 101, 5 p., e9.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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Oceanic frontal divergence alters phytoplankton competition and distribution
Toschi, F. & Plummer, A., 2022, (Submitted) In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS). XX, XResearch output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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Self-similar properties of avalanche statistics in a simple turbulent model
Benzi, R., Castaldi, I., Toschi, F. & Trampert, J., 7 Mar 2022, In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences. 380, 2218, 15 p., 20210074.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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Data from numerical simulations of topological structure and dynamics of three-dimensional active nematics
Banerjee, D. (Creator), Toschi, F. (Creator) & Vitelli, V. (Creator), 4TU.Centre for Research Data, 11 Feb 2020
DOI: 10.4121/uuid:5c8ea40a-19d5-4ecb-893a-c93f238a494c
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Crowdflow – diluted pedestrian dynamics in the Metaforum building of Eindhoven University of Technology
Toschi, F. (Creator) & Corbetta, A. (Creator), 4TU.Centre for Research Data, 2 Oct 2017
DOI: 10.4121/uuid:25289586-4fda-4931-8904-d63efe4aa0b8
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Heavy particles in turbulent flows RM-2007-GRAD-2048
Calzavarini, E. (Creator), Lanotte, A. (Creator), Bec, J. (Creator), Biferale, L. (Creator), Cencini, M. (Creator) & Toschi, F. (Creator), 4TU.Centre for Research Data, 17 Jan 2011
DOI: 10.4121/uuid:f7cd7b9d-ae4e-498e-92b4-7efe2d350d86
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Supplementary material from "The collective effect of finite-sized inhomogeneities on the spatial spread of populations in two dimensions"
Nelson, D. R. (Creator), Möbius, W. (Contributor), Tesser, F. (Creator), Benzi, R. (Creator), Toschi, F. (Creator) & Alards, K. M. J. (Creator), The Royal Society, 20 Oct 2021
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.c.5662301
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AT force field is fully open! How to avoid being hit by others in a crowded station passage? —— 2021 Ig Nobel Prize in Physics-PanSci
Alessandro Corbetta & Federico Toschi
30/09/21
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Roy Exum: The 2021 Ig Nobel Prizes
Alessandro Corbetta & Federico Toschi
13/09/21
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Eindhoven University of Technology researchers receive Ig Nobel Prize for ‘collision research’
Alessandro Corbetta & Federico Toschi
12/09/21
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Ig Nobel Prize for Eindhoven University of Technology Research Into Crowd Movement
Alessandro Corbetta & Federico Toschi
11/09/21
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Ig Nobel Prize for TU/e research on colliding pedestrians
Alessandro Corbetta & Federico Toschi
10/09/21
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