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]

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Education and career

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

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

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References

  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. 1 2 King's College, Cambridge Annual Report 2017 (PDF), p. 9, retrieved 2022-03-22
  4. 1 2 "Faculty Members: Department of Physics", University Catalog, University of Arizona, retrieved 2022-03-22
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  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, American Physical Society, 9 (10), November 2000