I am physicist, I got a Master from the University of Florence (Italy) in Statistical Mechanics and a PhD in Earth Sciences from the University of Rennes 1 (France), where I studied mixing and reactions in porous media. While I was a postdoctoral fellow at MIT (Boston, U.S.), I learned microfluidics that I use to develop novel experiments for porous media investigation.
Since 2021 I am an Associate Professor at the Institute of Earth Sciences (ISTE) of the University of Lausanne (UNIL), where I was in tenure track since 2015.
I am interested in the physics of flow and mixing-driven processes in confined micro-structures, like filters or soil, with particular attention to their coupling with biological activities. In my group we combine theoretical/numerical approaches to microfluidics experiments to visualize and quantify small scale processes in confined flows in the spirit of modeling their larger scale consequences (upscaling) on reactive transport and filtration phenomena.
I teach classes in the Bachelor (undergraduate level, in French) and Master (graduate level, in English) programs of the Faculty of Geosciences and Environment.
Bachelor en géosciences et environnement:
- Sciences de l’environnement : état des lieux, processus et scénarios (fall semester)
- Hydro-geologie de la subsurface (fall semester)
- Analyse Vectorielle (spring semester)
Master of Science in Environmental Geosciences:
- Flow and transport in the subsurface (fall semester)
- Master Project Preparation (fall semester)
Work with us! We have a PhD and a post-doc position open at the moment.
About me
Pietro de Anna’s curriculum vitae