Chiara Calascibetta

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Chiara Calascibetta is a PhD student (Dept. Of Physics University of Rome Tor vergata) and she works under the supervision of Prof. Luca Biferale and Dr. M. Cencini (CNR, Rome). She mainly collaborate with Dr. A. Celani (ICTP, Trieste), Dr. F. Borra (LPENS, Paris), Dr. Jérémie Bec (CNRS, Nice) and Prof. A. Mailybaev (IMPA, Rio de Janeiro). 

She is specializing in the field of Statistical Mechanics with interest in turbulent and complex systems. Her main research activity is focused on the study of control problems using both data-driven (Reinforcement Learning) and equation-informed (Optimal Control) approaches. In particular, she is studying systems of Lagrangian active particles navigating in complex fluids, optimizing their navigation in order to achieve specific goals (i.e., from a theoretical point of view, in order to understand which are the most important degrees of freedom involved in the dynamics). She is also studying the passive scalar turbulence.  Thus, from the computational point of view, she studies numerical methods for simulating the time evolution of the Navier-Stokes equations on high performance computing facilities. In particular, she is working with parallel computing codes on CPUs and GPUs.

AWARDS & SCHOLARSHIPS:

• Euromech Young Scientist Prize at the 18th European Turbulence Conference for the best oral presentation given by an attendee under the age of 35 years. 
• National Award Milla Baldo Ceolin 2021 "Women in Theoretical Physics”, award given by INFN to the 10 best Master Theses in Theoretical Physics in 2021.
• Scholarship “Enrico Persico” 2021 - Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei 1st CLASSIFIED. Motivation: for the best four students enrolled in the Master’s degree in Physics in the public universities of Rome.
• Deserving Student Award, a.y. 2017/18, 2018/19, 2019/20. 1st classified among all students enrolled in the bachelor/master’s degree in Physics at the University of Rome Tor Vergata.
• Winner of the Award student of particular merit, a.y. 2017/18. Reserved for the 5% most talented students at the University of Rome Tor Vergata enrolled in the 2016/17 a.y.