Simone Chiocchetti studied Civil, Environmental, and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Trento, Italy, under the supervision of Prof. Dr.-Ing. Michael Dumbser.

He spent a year in Stuttgart at the IAG (Institute of Aerodynamics and Gasdynamics), funded by the DFG project “DROPIT startup grant” and he is currently working at the University of Cologne in the Numerical Simulation Research group led by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Gregor Gassner, under a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship (European Union’s Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Programme, grant agreement No. 101109532).

Simone’s research interests include: high order numerical methods, of the Finite Volume and Discontinuous Galerkin families, in the context of first order hyperbolic partial differential equations; algorithms for generation and optimization of high quality unstructured meshes; treatment of stiff algebraic source terms; modeling of fluid and solid mechanics as well as multiphase flow; high-performance computing; semi-implicit numerical methods.

Simone’s current MSCA project (MoMeNTUM: Modern high order numerical Methods based on No-compromise moving Voronoi Tessellations, a Unified solver for continuum Mechanics) concerns the development of high order numerical methods on Voronoi grids, together with new meshing algorithms that allow to fully take advantage of the versatility provided by unstructured moving polygonal meshes, with special attention to the computational efficiency of the implementation.