Maria Vittoria Salvetti

Department of Civil and Industrial Engineering, University of Pisa

Maria Vittoria Salvetti is a Full Professor of Fluid Dynamics in the BSc and MSc programs in Aerospace Engineering at the Department of Civil and Industrial Engineering of the University of Pisa. She was Head of the Department since 2020 to 2024. In March 2025 she received the academic honor of the “Order of the Cherubino” of the University of Pisa.

She serves as the Chair of the Scientific Programme Committee of the European Research Community on Flow, Turbulence and Combustion (ERCOFTAC) and is a member of the Council of the European Mechanics Society (EUROMECH). She served in the Scientific Committee of Italian Space Agency (ASI). She is co-leader of Spoke 1 - Enabling Technologies for Novel Near-Earth and Exploration Missions – of the Space It Up! project funded by ASI and MUR.

She is the Editor-in-Chief of Flow, Turbulence and Combustion, Associate Editor of Computers and Fluids, editor of the ERCOFTAC Book Series (Springer), and a member of the advisory board of other international journals. She has been, and continues to be, a member of the organizing and scientific committees of numerous international conferences.

Her research activity focuses on the study and modeling of complex flows, spanning a wide range of applications. Prof. Salvetti has been engaged in the validation of numerical and experimental results, taking part in the organization of benchmark cases and employing advanced techniques for uncertainty quantification. Her work increasingly relies on the synergistic use of numerical simulations and experimental analyses to better understand flow dynamics and optimize flow behavior for relevant applications.

She is the author of approximately 200 scientific publications indexed in Scopus.

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