Short Biography of prof. M. Lappa

Prof. Marcello Lappa is the Director (main Programme Advisor) of the MSc course in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Strathclyde (public British University located in the center of Glasgow, UK). He is listed in the "World Ranking of Top 2% Scientists in 2022" Stanford University database in the subfield Fluids & Plasmas. Over the last 25 years, he has authored 3 international books (2004, Elsevier Science, Cambridge; 2009, John Wiley & Sons, Chichester; 2012, John Wiley & Sons, Chichester), more than 130 publications in high impact-factor peer reviewed journals or as book chapters (most of which as single author, http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Marcello_Lappa/publications) and 60 other conference and technical papers. His research focuses on fluid motion and stability behaviour, computational fluid dynamics, incompressible and compressible fluid flows, organic and inorganic materials sciences and crystal growth, multiphase flows, solidification, high-temperature gas-dynamics, particle dynamics and microgravity science. On September 2013 he attained a qualification (habilitation) to the rank of Full Professor in Italy. He joined the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering of the University of Strathclyde as an Associate Professor in 2015 (Academic grade 9). On Oct 2017 he took on the role of Director of the MSc course in Mechanical Engineering (Programme Advisor of Studies) and later he was given the highest UK Academic title (Full Professor). Over recent years he has secured (in a position of PI) over £ 2 million of external funding. He seats in the Steering Committees of several conferences (ICTEA, ICCES, ICFVM, ParCFD, ICOME, ICCMREA, AMT, ICMAPH) and acts as a Reviewer for several funding bodies (EPSRC-UK, DFG-Germany, FNRS-Belgium, GIF-Israel, ANVUR-Italy, NSERC-Canada, NVSTE-Kazakhstan and ESA). Since 2005 he serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the international scientific Journal “Fluid Dynamics and Materials Processing” (ISSN 1555-256X), currently being indexed in Scopus and the ESCI index of Clarivate Analytics' Web of Science.