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.
[4] She was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Chicago, under the mentorship of Leo Kadanoff and Norman Lebovitz.
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] Pesci married Raymond E. Goldstein, a frequent coauthor who was also a postdoctoral researcher in Chicago and moved with her to Arizona and Cambridge.