Matteo Bernardini
Associate Professor of Fluid Mechanics
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Sapienza University of Rome
Via Eudossiana 18, 00184 Rome, Italy
Building RM031, room 28
Phone: +39 06 4458 5285 (ext. 25285)
Email: matteo.bernardini@uniroma1.it
Office hours: Monday 16:00–18:00 (please write an email to arrange a meeting)
I am an Associate Professor of Fluid Mechanics at the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering of Sapienza University of Rome, where I also received my Ph.D. in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics in 2010.
My research addresses the physics and control of compressible turbulent flows through high-fidelity simulations (DNS and LES): high-speed boundary layers, shock-wave/boundary-layer interactions, rough-wall and heat-transfer effects, passive and active flow control, aeroacoustics of space launchers, rocket nozzles and solid rocket motors, and high-performance computing on GPUs. I lead the development of STREAmS, an open-source GPU-accelerated solver for the direct numerical simulation of compressible turbulence, adopted by research groups worldwide and run on Europe's largest supercomputers. I take part in the Italian National Centre for HPC (ICSC) and I am the national PI of the PRIN project ADMIRE on Mars-entry aerodynamics.
In 2014 I was awarded a SIR grant by the Italian Ministry of Education, a programme supporting the scientific independence of young researchers. My work has been recognised with the CEAS/AIDAA Best Paper Award in Fluid Dynamics (2025), the APS/DFD Gallery of Fluid Motion Award (2022) and the AIAA Solid Rockets Best Paper Award (2021), and I have been listed among Stanford University's World's Top 2% Scientists since 2022. I have authored more than 80 papers in international peer-reviewed journals (Google Scholar, August 2026: 5,400+ citations, h-index 40).
Profiles: Google Scholar · Scopus · ORCID · STREAmS on GitHub · Sapienza research portal · Course catalogue
2027 — Invited keynote lecture on hypersonic boundary-layer noise at HiSST 2027, the International Conference on High-Speed Vehicle Science and Technology (Beijing, May 2027).
2026 — A research project of the group (M. Cogo, M. Fratini) has been selected for the CTR Summer Program 2026 at Stanford University.
December 2025 — CEAS/AIDAA Best Paper Award in Fluid Dynamics at the Aerospace Europe Conference, Turin.
2025 — Our EuroHPC project has been admitted to the JUPITER Research and Early Access Program; new Extreme Access allocation CREST on LUMI-G.
2025 — STREAmS-2.1 released (Computer Physics Communications).
