Sauro Succi is an Italian scientist, internationally credited for being one of the founders of the successful Lattice Boltzmann method for fluid dynamics and soft matter.
He is an alumnus of the University of Bologna, from which he earned a degree in nuclear engineering, and the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, from which he obtained a PhD in plasma physics .
Dr Succi is an elected member of the Academia Europaea (2015), and he features in the list of Top Italian Scientists ([4]) He has been awarded the 2017 APS Aneesur Rahman Prize for Computational Physics.
In addition, he has been pivotal in building and constantly inspiring a community now counting tens of thousands of researchers in academia and industry, all across chemistry and physics, and reaching into more distant fields such as engineering or biology".
He is the co-recipient of the Premio Aspen Institute Italia 2024 for excellent collaboration ITA_USA:https://www.aspeninstitute.it/premio-aspen-2024-la-ricerca-vincitric and the recipient of the 2023 Eugenio Beltrami Senior Scientist Prize for the Mathematics and mechanics of Complex Systems, http://memocscenter.univaq.it/memocs/en/attivita/the-eugenio-beltrami-senior-scientist-prize/