Sofia Fellini

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Ph.D. in Ingegneria Civile E Ambientale , 33rd cycle (2017-2020)

Ph.D. obtained in 2021

Dissertation:

Modeling pollutant dispersion at the city and street scales: from wind tunnel experiments to complex network theory (Abstract)

Tutors:

Luca Ridolfi Pietro Stefano Salizzoni

Profile

Research interests

Hydraulics
Urban air pollution
Urban fluid mechanics

Biography

Sofia Fellini obtained her Bachelor's degree in Environmental Engineering from the University of Padua in 2013 and completed her Master's degree at the Politecnico di Torino in 2015. From 2015 to 2017, she conducted research within the Hydraulics group at the Politecnico di Torino, focusing on the numerical modeling of a water supply network in the alpine region, in collaboration with SMAT. In 2021, she earned her Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering through an international cotutelle program between the Politecnico di Torino and the École Centrale de Lyon in France. Her doctoral thesis focused on the dispersion of airborne pollutants in urban environments, combining simplified numerical models based on the thoery of complex networks with wind tunnel experiments. In 2021, she continued her research career with a postdoc at the Laboratoire de Mécanique des Fluides et d’Acoustique (LMFA) in Lyon, where she further explored the impact of vegetation on pollutant dispersion and developed LES (Large Eddy Simulation) simuations based on the Lattice-Boltzmann method. In 2022, she obtained the "Qualification aux fonctions de Maître-sse de Conférences" in section CNU 60 (Mechanics, Mechanical Engineering, and Civil Engineering) of the French university system. In the same year, she secured a position as a contract lecturer at the École Centrale de Lyon, where she taught Fluid Mechanics, Urban Climate, and Climate Change. Since April 2023, she has been Assistant Professor (RTD-a) at the Politecnico di Torino, where she has taught the Fluid Mechanics course for mechanical engineering students and the doctoral course Urban Climates: Basic Concepts and Strategies for Climate Change Adaptation.

Scientific branch

CEAR-01/A - Hydraulics
(Area 0008 - Civil engineering and architecture)

Teaching

Collegi of the degree programmes

Teachings

Master of Science

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Research

Research areas

Research projects

Projects funded by competitive calls

Supervised PhD students

Publications

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