MIRKO GALLO

SHORT BIO:

As of 2025, Mirko Gallo is an Associate Professor of Fluid Mechanics in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Sapienza University of Rome and a Fellow of the Sapienza School of Advanced Studies. His research focuses on mesoscale modelling of fluids within a multidisciplinary framework that integrates fluid mechanics, statistical mechanics, applied mathematics, high-performance computing, and soft-matter physics, enabling multiscale investigations of complex fluids and flows. He received the AIMETA Junior Prize for Fluid Mechanics in 2022 and was awarded an ERC Starting Grant in 2024.

Previous Positions:

2023-2025 Assistant professor (RTDA), Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Sapienza University of Rome.
2022–2023: Research Fellow in Computational Physics, University of Brighton, Brighton, UK
2019–2022: Postdoctoral Researcher in Fluid Mechanics, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Meccanica e Aerospaziale, Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy
2015–2019: PhD Student in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Meccanica e Aerospaziale, Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy
Thesis title: Fluctuating Hydrodynamics Model for Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Nucleation.
Supervisor: Prof. Carlo Massimo Casciola.