Marco Lauricella is a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Applied Mathematics “Mauro Picone” of the National Research Council of Italy (IAC-CNR), where he leads the Fluid Matter research unit. He holds a PhD in Physics from University College Dublin and a degree in Chemistry from Sapienza University of Rome. His research focuses on computational fluid dynamics, soft matter, multicomponent flows, and multiscale modeling, with expertise ranging from atomistic simulations to mesoscale and Lagrangian descriptions of complex fluids.
A significant part of his work has been devoted to the theoretical and numerical modeling of electrospinning processes. Within the ERC NANO-JETS project, he developed discrete and Lagrangian models for electrically charged viscoelastic jets, addressing jet stretching, bending instabilities, air-drag effects, controlled electric fields, and fiber deposition. He is the author of JETSPIN, an open-source parallel software specifically designed for computational experiments on electrospinning of polymer solutions. He has published several works on electrospinning modeling, including contributions on nonlinear Langevin models, dynamic mesh refinement, controlled gas counterflow, rotating electric fields, nanoparticle-loaded electrified jets, and entropic lattice Boltzmann models for leaky dielectric fluids. He is also co-author of the 2020 Reviews of Modern Physics article “Models of polymer solutions in electrified jets and solution blowing” and of the 2024 CISM/Springer volume Materials and Electro-mechanical and Biomedical Devices Based on Nanofibers.
