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Costanza Rodda is an Assistant Professor in the Fluid Mechanics section of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Imperial College London. She holds a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Physics from the University of Trieste and obtained her PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Cottbus-Senftenberg in 2019. After joining Imperial College as a research associate in 2021, she completed her postdoctoral research at the LEGI laboratory in Grenoble, focusing on wave turbulence within the Simons Collaboration research group. Her research centers on applications of thermal fluid dynamics, geophysical flows, stratified turbulence, and mixing, with an aim to optimize energy management in buildings and improve sustainability. Rodda's work investigates the gravity waves, which are crucial for understanding unresolved dynamics in climate models, thereby addressing significant uncertainties. She is currently looking for students interested in graduate or postgraduate projects in fluid mechanics related to the built environment.
Specialisms available in Materials for the Energy Transition or Theory and Simulation of Materials.