Massimo Cencini

Via dei Taurini 19 IV Piano, 00182 Roma

Biosketch:

• 2023—present Research Director (Direttore di Ricerca) CNR-ISC
• 2019-2022 Senior researcher (Primo Ricercatore) CNR-ISC
• 2008-2019 Researcher ISC
• 2003-2008 Fixed term Researcher (with Tenure Track from 2004) at INFM-SMC “Statistical Mechanics and Complexity”
• 2002-2003 Post-doc Laboratorio Cassini CNRS, Nice (France)
• 2000-2001 Research grant at Department of Physics of University “Sapienza” Rome
• 1999-2000 Post-doc (visiting scientist) at Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany
• 1996-1999 PhD in Physics at Department of Physics of University “Sapienza” Rome

Research interests:

• Dynamical systems: characterization of predictability ad complexity in chaotic systems, high dimensional chaotic systems, chaotic synchronization
• Turbulence systems: statistical theories of both two-dimensional and three dimensional turbulence, Lagrangian turbulence, multifractal model of turbulence, reduced models for the energy cascade
• Turbulent transport: transport of fields and particles in fluid turbulence, inertial particles, active and passive scalar turbulence, transport of microorganisms in fluid flows
• Application of machine learning tools to chaotic and turbulent systems (recent interest)
• Population dynamics: neutral theory of biodiversity
• Synchronization in biological systems

For publications see my google scholar and my publons profiles

Outstanding Referee Awards

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Alignment of Nonspherical Active Particles in Chaotic Flows – Physical Review Letters

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NAR: Energetic funnel facilitates facilitated diffusion

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Synchronization of extended systems

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Transport in binary mixtures

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Lagrangian Turbulence

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Scalar Turbulence

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Inertial Particles in Turbulent Flows

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Introduction to Turbulence

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