Sauro Succi

Sauro Succi is an Italian scientist, internationally credited for being one of the founders of the Lattice Boltzmann method for fluid dynamics and soft matter.

Life and career Succi was born in Forlì. In 1979 he obtained a degree in nuclear engineering at the University of Bologna, from 1981 to 1982 he was Euratom fellow at the Max Plack Institute for plasma physics in Garching, and in 1987 a PhD in physics from the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne. From 1986 to 1995 he worked as a research scientist at the IBM European Center for Scientific and Engineering Computing in Rome.

From 1995 to 2018, Succi has been research director at the Istituto Applicazioni Calcolo of the National Research Council (CNR) in Rome.

He has been awarded the 2017 APS Aneesur Rahman Prize for Computational Physics.

In 2017 he has been awarded the ERC Advanced Grant "Computational design of porous mesoscale materials (COPMAT)" and in 2024 the ERC-Proof-of-Concept grant LBFAST (Lattice Boltzmann For Advanced SimulaTions).

He is the co-recipient of the Premio Aspen Institute Italia 2024 for excellent collaboration between Italy and the USA and the recipient of the 2023 Eugenio Beltrami Senior Scientist Prize for the Mathematics and Mechanics of Complex Systems. 2025 he received Visioni Prize for Science and Research, Confindustria Romagna.

Selected publications