Adriana Pesci

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Adriana Irma Pesci is an Argentine applied mathematician and mathematical physicist at the University of Cambridge, specialising in fluid dynamics. Her research topics have included lattice models of polymer solutions,[A] Hele-Shaw flow,[B] flagellar motion of organisms in fluids,[C] soap films on Möbius strips,[1][2][D] and the Leidenfrost effect.[E]

Education and career[edit]

Pesci is originally from Argentina,[3] and earned her Ph.D. in 1986 at the National University of La Plata in Argentina.[4] She was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Chicago, under the mentorship of Leo Kadanoff and Norman Lebovitz.[3]

She joined the University of Arizona as a lecturer in physics in 1999,[4] becoming a senior lecturer in 2003. In 2007 she moved to the University of Cambridge, where she is a senior research associate in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics,[5] a fellow of King's College,[6] and a former Darley Fellow in Mathematics of Downing College.[7]

Personal life[edit]

Pesci married Raymond E. Goldstein, a frequent coauthor who was also a postdoctoral researcher in Chicago and moved with her to Arizona and Cambridge.[8]

Selected publications[edit]

A.
Madden, William G.; Pesci, Adriana I.; Freed, Karl F. (February 1990), "Phase equilibria of lattice polymer and solvent: tests of theories against simulations", Macromolecules, 23 (4): 1181–1191, doi:10.1021/ma00206a042
B.
Goldstein, Raymond E.; Pesci, Adriana I.; Shelley, Michael J. (May 1993), "Topology transitions and singularities in viscous flows", Physical Review Letters, 70 (20): 3043–3046, doi:10.1103/physrevlett.70.3043, PMID 10053761
C.
Leptos, Kyriacos C.; Guasto, Jeffrey S.; Gollub, J. P.; Pesci, Adriana I.; Goldstein, Raymond E. (November 2009), "Dynamics of enhanced tracer diffusion in suspensions of swimming eukaryotic microorganisms", Physical Review Letters, 103 (19): 198103, doi:10.1103/physrevlett.103.198103, PMID 20365957
D.
Goldstein, Raymond E.; Moffatt, H. Keith; Pesci, Adriana I.; Ricca, Renzo L. (December 2010), "Soap-film Möbius strip changes topology with a twist singularity", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 107 (51): 21979–21984, doi:10.1073/pnas.1015997107, PMC 3009808
E.
Cousins, Thomas R.; Goldstein, Raymond E.; Jaworski, Justin W.; Pesci, Adriana I. (February 2012), "A ratchet trap for Leidenfrost drops", Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 696: 215–227, doi:10.1017/jfm.2012.27, S2CID 49549285

References[edit]

  1. ^ Roberts, Siobhan (8 April 2019), "In bubbles, she sees a mathematical universe", The New York Times
  2. ^ "A new twist on soap films", Research news, University of Cambridge, 23 May 2014
  3. ^ a b King's College, Cambridge Annual Report 2017 (PDF), p. 9, retrieved 2022-03-22
  4. ^ a b "Faculty Members: Department of Physics", University Catalog, University of Arizona, retrieved 2022-03-22
  5. ^ "Dr Adriana Irma Pesci", Faculty of Mathematics, University of Cambridge, retrieved 2022-03-22
  6. ^ "Dr Adriana Pesci, Ordinary Fellow", Fellows, King's College, Cambridge, retrieved 2022-03-22
  7. ^ Downing College 2010 (PDF), p. 107, retrieved 2022-03-22
  8. ^ "Where Are They Now? APS News Finds Out What Happened to the Previous Winners of the Apker Award", APS News, 9 (10), American Physical Society, November 2000
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