La Sapienza Professor Sergio Pirozzoli appointed ND Rome Associate

Sergio Pirozzoli is the third Rome Associate appointed for years 2023 - 2025.

Pirozzoli is a full professor of Fluid Dynamics at La Sapienza University of Rome. His research interests include numerical simulation of turbulent incompressible and compressible flows, and high-performance computing.

Pirozzoli during his career has made contributions to the numerical study of shock/boundary layer interactions by developing novel energy-consistent and shock-capturing schemes, and editing a paper on "Numerical Methods for High-Speed Flows" in the Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics in 2011. In 2016 he was elected Fellow of the American Physical Society-Division of Fluid Dynamics with mention of his work on high-speed flows. He is associate editor of the Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics and Computers in Fluids. He is the chair of the Sapienza PhD program in Aerospace Engineering.

Pirozzoli started to collaborate with Notre Dame in 2021 when his colleague Prof. Sam Paolucci, asked him to teach one of the courses that the College of Engineering was offering in Rome in the Fall. As Pirozzoli accepted, he started to teach fluid mechanics to Notre Dame students alongside a series of Notre Dame professors who each year were coming to Rome to teach.

As part of his appointment as a Rome Associate, Pirozzoli is facilitating institutional relationships among Notre Dame and La Sapienza University, the main Roman public university and the biggest university in Europe, as well as organizing and promoting scientific events of high disciplinary interest. 

Learn more about the Rome Associates.