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Ivan Fumagalli

Ph.D.

MOX Laboratory - Department of Mathematics
Politecnico di Milano
Piazza Leonardo da Vinci, 32,
20133 Milano, Italy
(Personal page on the Department website)

+39 02 2399 4699

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Main research interests

  • numerical methods for fluid dynamics and fluid-structure interaction
  • moving geometry problems: immersed surfaces and moving boundaries
  • numerical analysis and optimal control of PDEs
  • image processing, segmentation and registration
  • applications to life sciences: brain waste clearance, cardiac hemodynamics and valve dynamics
  • applications to engineering: free sufrace problems ink-jet printing

Current projects

BraiNum
Numerical modeling of the physiological and pathological function of the brain and central nervous system (P.I. Paola F. Antonietti)


ICSC - Spoke 6
Multiscale modeling and engineering applications, with the development of models, algorithms, and codes capable of exploiting the abilities of high-performance computing machines. Cross-disciplinary project involving 11 universities and research centers and many industrial partners.


Clinical collaborations

Past projects

PRIN 2020
Advanced polyhedral discretisations of heterogeneous PDEs for multiphysics problems (P.I. Paola F. Antonietti)


iHEART
An Integrated Heart model for the simulation of the cardiac function (P.I. Alfio Quarteroni)




Clinical collaborations



Software tools

Member of the development teams of the following software libraries:

Scientific computing and HPC

Image and surface/mesh processing

imagine VMTK (MOX fork)


Professional experience

Feb 2023 - today
Assistant Professor (Junior - RTDa)
at MOX - Dipartimento di Matematica, Politecnico di Milano

Dec 2022 - Feb 2023
Post-doc Researcher
in the PRIN project Advanced polyhedral discretisations of heterogeneous PDEs for multiphysics problems
at MOX - Dipartimento di Matematica, Politecnico di Milano

May 2018 - Nov 2022
Post-doc Researcher
in the iHEART project
at MOX - Dipartimento di Matematica, Politecnico di Milano

Sep 2017 - Mar 2018
Analyst and Developer
at MOXOFF S.p.A

Sep 2016 - Jul 2017
Project fellow
at MOXOFF S.p.A


Experience abroad

Oct 2022

Visiting in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Flow Physics and Computational Lab (Prof. Rajat Mittal, Prof. Jung-Hee Seo) Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA

Feb - Apr 2016

Visiting student in the group of Prof. R.H. Nochetto, Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland, College Park, USA

Education

PhD in Mathematical Models and Methods in Engineering
at MOX - Department of Mathematics, Politecnico di Milano
2014 - Jul 2017

Main research topics: numerical analysis of free-surface flows, optimal control and shape optimization for partial differential equations, reduced basis methods
Thesis: Numerical approximation and optimal control of free surface problems with moving contact line

MSc in Mathematical Engineering
at Politecnico di Milano
2011 - 2013

orientation: Computational Sciences and Engineering
Thesis: Shape Optimization for Stokes flows: a reference-domain approach
Grade: 110/110 cum laude

BSc in Mathematical Engineering
at Politecnico di Milano
2008 - 2011

Thesis: Test a priori di modelli LES per la turbolenza omogenea e isotropa
Thesis: (A priori tests on LES models for homogeneous and isotropic turbulence)
Grade: 110/110 cum laude