Dr.
Maura
Brunetti
Scientific collaborator
Tel.: +41 22 379 06 25
Curriculum vitae
Academic Qualifications
Professional Experience
Ongoing Education
Research interests
Publications
Curriculum vitae
Born on January 30, 1970 in Rome, Italy
Italian citizen
Three children
Academic Qualifications
2001 PhD in Physics, University of Pisa
PhD thesis: Nonlinear coherent structures in collisionless plasmas
1997 MSc in Physics, University of Rome “La Sapienza”
Master thesis: Scalar and tensorial gravitational waves emitted by binary systems and their interaction with spherical antennas (in Italian)
Professional Experience
2011– Scientific collaborator, Institute for Environmental Sciences (ISE), University of Geneva
2006–2010 Postdoctoral fellow, Geneva Observatory, University of Geneva
Stellar migration in barred-spiral galaxies,
chaotic regions in marginally stable disks,
relation between bar's strength and chaotic orbits
(2006-2007 granted by Marie Heim-Voegtlin SNF)
2001–2006 Postdoctoral fellow, Plasma Physics Research Center, EPFL
Ion Temperature Gradient instability in toroidal fusion devices,
turbulence cascade toward small-scales, development of
semi-Lagrangian parallel codes, numerical tests with different Eulerian
finite-volume algorithms
Ongoing Education
7th Transalpin Workshop in Physics, Climate and Atmospheric Physics, Champex-Lac (CH), February 2009
The origin of the Galaxy and Local group, 37th Saas-Fee advanced course of the Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy, Muerren (CH), March 2007
Infrastructures and energy, organised by CUEPE, University of Geneva (CH), 2004-2005
MPI, Introduction to parallel computation, EPFL (CH), February 2002
8th Summer School of parallel computation, CINECA, Bologna (Italy), September 1999
36th Culham Plasma Physics Summer School, Culham Science Center (UK), July 1999
6th National Seminar of Theoretical Physics, University of Parma (Italy), September 1997
Research interests
Instability thresholds in the ocean circulation
Interaction between the ocean circulation and the North Atlantic Oscillation
Modeling collective effects and nonlinear phenomena
Large-scale instabilities and scaling towards small scales
Characterization of chaotic regions
Semi-Lagrangian, Eulerian and N-body simulations