Sofia Fellini

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Fixed-term assistant professor
Department of Environment, Land and Infrastructure Engineering (DIATI)

  • Member of Interdepartmental Center FULL - Future Urban Legacy Lab

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.

Curriculum

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Scientific branch

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

Research topics

  • Development of parametric models based on the theory of complex networks for the dispersion of pollutants in urban geometries
  • Lattice-Boltzmann Large-Eddy Simulations of pollutant dispersion in urban areas
  • Modelling of water distribution networks
  • Wind tunnel experiments of pollutant dispersion in urban areas with vegetation

Skills

ERC sectors

PE10_1 - Atmospheric chemistry, atmospheric composition, air pollution
PE10_17 - Hydrology, hydrogeology, engineering and environmental geology, water and soil pollution
PE10_2 - Meteorology, atmospheric physics and dynamics

SDG

Goal 3: Good health and well-being
Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities
Goal 13: Climate action

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Teachings

PhD

Master of Science

MostraNascondi A.A. passati

Bachelor of Science

  • Fluid mechanics. A.A. 2023/24, INGEGNERIA MECCANICA (MECHANICAL ENGINEERING). Titolare del corso

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Supervised PhD students

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