{"id":7,"date":"2012-02-07T18:54:42","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T17:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toschi.phys.tue.nl\/wordpress\/?page_id=4"},"modified":"2025-10-20T21:23:44","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T19:23:44","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/toschi.phys.tue.nl\/wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"about me"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"kcite-section\" kcite-section-id=\"7\">\n<div class='content-wrap'><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"704\" data-attachment-id=\"343\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/toschi.phys.tue.nl\/wordpress\/about-me\/toischi-smaller\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/toschi.phys.tue.nl\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/toischi-smaller.jpg?fit=640%2C704&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,704\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" 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observations and, primarily, state-of-the-art large-scale, high-fidelity numerical simulations.&nbsp;At Eindhoven University of Technology I holds the chair of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tue.nl\/en\/university\/departments\/applied-physics\/the-department\/staff\/detail\/ep\/e\/d\/ep-uid\/20089361\/\">Computational Physics of Multi-scale Transport Phenomena<\/a>&nbsp;in the department of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tue.nl\/en\/university\/departments\/applied-physics\">Physics<\/a> and in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tue.nl\/en\/university\/departments\/mathematics-and-computer-science\/\">Department of Mathematics and Computer Science<\/a>.&nbsp;Our research is embedded in the &nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.4tu.nl\/\">4TU<\/a> Centre of Excellence for Multiscale Phenomena and in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jmburgerscentrum.nl\">JMBC Burgerscentrum<\/a> for fluid dynamics, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tue.nl\/en\/research\/research-institutes\/top-research-groups\/eindhoven-multiscale-institute\/\">Eindhoven Multiscale Institute<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size\">Most of the research challenges that I like to undertake involve important multi-scale aspect, where non-trivial physics emerges at the large-scales, due to the microscopic physics. Several research topics that we are working on are also strongly interdisciplinary, trying to push the boundaries of physics across different disciplines.&nbsp;In the computational work we are daily busy with innovation of numerical methods, and large-scale numerical simulations.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Keywords from my research include: fluid dynamics turbulence, lagrangian turbulence, thermal convection, complex fluids, soft glassy, active matter, <a href=\"http:\/\/crowdflow.phys.tue.nl\">crowd dynamics<\/a>, Lattice Boltzmann methods.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size\">I have been awarded a number of large scale computational grants (DEISA Extreme Computing Initiative, PRACE). I have been promoting sharing of raw research data, &nbsp;founding the International CFD Database hosted at CINECA (Bologna, Italy), and contributing to&nbsp;establish the <a href=\"https:\/\/turbase.cineca.it\">Turbase<\/a> database. I served as chairman of the International Collaboration for Turbulence Research (ICTR, http:\/\/www.ictr.eu). I acted as&nbsp;Chair of the COST Action MP0806 \"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cost.eu\/actions\/MP0806\/#tabs|Name:overview\">Particles in turbulence<\/a>\" and as chair of the COST Action MP1305 \"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cost.eu\/actions\/MP1305\/#tabs|Name:overview\">Flowing matter<\/a>\".<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size\">For a closer look to my research interests, you are welcome to check my profiles on:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/scholar.google.it\/citations?user=lvhBj44AAAAJ\" target=\"_blank\">Google scholar<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/profile\/Federico_Toschi\/\">Researchgate<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.researcherid.com\/rid\/A-1552-2009\">ResearcherID<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5935-2332\">ORCiD<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.topitalianscientists.org\/TIS_HTML\/Top_Italian_Scientists_Physics.htm\">Top Italian Scientistis<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div><!-- kcite active, but no citations found -->\n<\/div> <!-- kcite-section 7 -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My main research interest is the statistical physics of complex systems, more precisely my work is at the crossroad between complex flows, complex fluids, and active matter. 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