Dr Francesco Turci

Research & Teaching

• January 2019 – today
  Senior Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Bristol.
  Topic: Wetting and drying in active systems.
  Project leader:  Nigel Wilding
• July 2014 – December 2018
  Senior Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Bristol.
  Topic: Deeply supercooled liquids and structure.
  Project leader:  C. Patrick Royall
  Teaching :
  • Co-supervising the work of PhD and master/bachelor students.
• July 2012 – July 2014
  Postdoctoral Fellow in the Theory of Soft Condensed Matter Group, Université du Luxembourg.
  Topic: Growth kinetics of solid-liquid interfaces.
  Project leader: T. Schilling
  Teaching :
  • Co-supervising the work of PhD and master/bachelor students.
• October 2009 – July 2012
  PhD Thesis in Physics in the Laboratoire Charles Coulomb – UMR CNRS et Université Montpellier 2.
  Topic : Transport Models with Constrained Dynamics: Heterogeneous Flow and Intermittency.

  Supervisor : E. Pitard

  
  

  Teaching :

  • Mechanics for Chemists and Geophysicists (64 hours × 2 years).
  • Newtonian Dynamics for Physicists, Mathematicians and Engineers (64 hours).

• December 2008 – July 2009
  Research project at the Physics of the City Laboratory, Physics Department, Bologna University.
  Topic : Statistical properties of a dynamic process on networks. Monte Carlo modeling.

  Supervisors : A. Bazzani, G. Turchetti.

• January – September 2007 Research project in the frame of the CoChiSe (Cell-on-Chip bioSensor) european programme at ARCES, Bologna University.
  Topic : Modelisation of evaporative fluxes for the control of micro-fluidic devices. Experiments and simulations.Supervisors: G. Servizi, D. Gazzola.

Education

• June 2012 – Université Montpellier 2 (France).
  Ph.D. thesis Transport Models with Constrained Dynamics: Heterogeneous Flow and Intermittency. Supervisor: E. Pitard.
  Jury: C. Appert-Rolland, S. Ciliberto, N. Kern, K. Mallick, A. Parmeggiani, M. Sellitto, C. Vanderzande.
• June 2009 – Bologna University Alma Mater Studiorum (Italy).
  Master Degree in Applied Physics: 110/110 cum laude.
• October 2007 – Bologna University Alma Mater Studiorum (Italy).
  First Degree in Physics: 110/110 cum laude.
• 2006 – oboe diploma at G. Frescobaldi Conservatory of Music, Ferrara (Italy). Mark: 9/10.
• July 2004 – Scientific Highschool Fulcieri Paulucci de’ Calboli in Forlì (Italy).
  Maturità Scientifica : 100/100.

Publications

See full list here.

Posters, Talks, Workshops & Schools

• Napoli, October 2018. Università Federico II. Invited Seminar.
• Nottingham, October 2018. JP Garrahan’s  Group. Invited Seminar.
• Montpellier, July 2018. Laboratoïre Charles Coulomb. Invited Seminar.
• Bristol, June 2018. Unifying Concepts of Glass Physics. Talk.
• Amsterdam, April 2018, University of Amsterdam. Invited Seminar.
• Bruxelles, November 2017, ULB. Invited Seminar.
• Edinburgh, September 2017, Thermodynamics 2017. Talk
• Wisla, July 2017, 8th IDMRCS. Invited Talk.
• London, May 2017, King’s College. Department of Mathematics. Invited seminar.
• London, May 2017, Statistical Physics of Complex, Glassy and Non-Equilibrium Systems@KCL . Talk.
• Bath, May 2017, Physics Department.  Theory Group Seminar. Invited seminar.
• Utrecht, January 2017, Institute for Theoretical Physics. Invited seminar.
• Amsterdam, February 2017, Van ’t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences. Invited seminar.
• Paris, November 2016. LPTMC (UPMC). Invited seminar.
• Mainz, November 2016. Theory and Simulation Group. Invited seminar.
• Durham, November 2016. Soft-Matter Group. Invited seminar.
• Roskilde,  September 2016, Glass and Time group. Invited seminar.
• Sheffield, July 2016, NESC’16. Talk.
• London, July 2016, CONES16. Talk.
• Bristol, June 2016, School of Chemistry, Molecular simulation @ Bristol. Invited talk.
• Bristol, April 2016, School of Physics, Theory Seminar. Invited talk.
• Mainz, July 2015, CECAM Workshop on The Role of Structure in Dynamical Arrest. Talk.
• Montpellier, May 2015, Dynamics in Viscous Liquids. Poster.
• Aspen, February 2015, Unifying Concepts in Glass Physics. Poster.
• Lisboa, July 2014, 9th Liquid Matter Conference. Poster.
• Bristol, May 2014, School of Physics. Invited seminar.
• Bayreuth, February 2014, Colloquium on Heterogeneous Nucleation and Microstructure Formation. Poster.
• Marseille, December 2013, Centre de Physique Théorique. Invited seminar.
• Lausanne, May 2013, CECAM Workshop on Heterogeneous Crystallization. Poster.
• Trieste, March 2013, MECO38. Best Poster Award.
• Paris, January 2012, Journées de Physique Statistique. Talk.
• Edinburgh, December 2011, Non-equilibrium Physics and Asymmetric Exclusion Processes. Invited Talk.
• Oldenburg Summer School, August 2011, Modern Computational Science: Simulation of extreme events.
• Paris, June 2011, Itzykson Meeting on Extremes and Records. Poster.
• Paris, January 2011, Journées de Physique Statistique.  Talk.
• Beg Rohu Summer School, August 2010. Concepts and Methods of Statistical Mechanics.
• Cargèse, April 2010. Jamming and Rheology.  Talk.

Languages

Fluent English, Fluent French, Elementary Turkish, Italian mother-tongue.

IT Skills

• Certificates : French C2i1, C2i2e, equivalent to the ECDL + teaching specific topics.
• Development : C/C++, Python, R, Mathematica, Matlab/Octave. Elements of Fortran, Tcl/Tk, Java.
• Simulation and data analysis: LAMMPS, ESPResSo Molecular Dynamics, VMD, Comsol Multiphysics, Matplotlib, Gnuplot, Grace, DataGraph.
• Image processing : Gimp, Pixelmator, Inkscape, OmniGraffle, VectorDesigner, Matlab.

Referee Activity

Physical Review E, Physical Review Letters, Journal of Chemical Physics, Journal of Statistical Mechanics.

Contacts

People to contact for references:

• C. Patrick Royall, HH Wills Physics Laboratory. Paddy.Royall@bristol.ac.uk  +44 (0)117 928 7668, Tyndall Avenue, Bristol, BS8 1TL, United Kingdom.
• Estelle Pitard. Estelle.Pitard@univ-montp2.fr +33 (0) 4 67 14 49 33 . Laboratoire Charles de Coulomb – UMR Université Montpellier 2-CNRS 5221 – L2C
• Tanja Schilling Tanja.Schilling@uni.lu +352 46 66 44 6970 Université du Luxembourg, Theory of Soft Condensed Matter, 162 a, avenue de la faïencerie, 1511 Luxembourg
• Andrea Parmeggiani. Andrea.Parmeggiani@univ-montp2.fr +33 (0) 4 67 14 32 76 . Dynamique des intéractions membranaires normales et pathologiques -UMR Université Montpellier 2-CNRS 5235 – DIMNP
• Walter Kob. Walter.Kob@univ-montp2.fr +33 (0) 4 67 14 93 26 . Laboratoire Charles de Coulomb – UMR Université Montpellier 2-CNRS 5221 – L2C
• Ludovic Berthier. Ludovic.Berthier@univ-montp2.fr +33 (0) 4 67 14 35 38 . Laboratoire Charles de Coulomb – UMR Université Montpellier 2-CNRS 5221 – L2C