Mattia Serra (PI)
Mattia Serra was born in Torrevecchia Teatina, a small village in Abruzzo, Italy. His path crossed Milano, Shanghai, Delft, Zurich, Boston, and San Diego!
Academic Appointments and Education
Assistant Professor
University of California, San Diego
Department of Physics
Sep. 2020 -
Schmidt Science Fellow - Applied Mathematics
Harvard University
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Mentor: Prof. L. Mahadevan
Oct. 2017 - 2020
Ph.D. Nonlinear Dynamics
ETH Zürich
Advisor: Prof. George Haller
2014 - 2017
Selected Awards
-Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in Physics 2026
-IUPAP Interdisciplinary Early Career Science Prize 2025
-NIH Maximizing Investigators' Research Award (MIRA) (R35) 2025
-NSF CAREER Award 2024
-Human Frontier Science Program (HSFP) Early Career Research Award 2024
-Hellman Fellowship in Physics 2023
-Postdoc Mobility Fellowship - Swiss National Science Foundation 2019
-Schmidt Science Fellow 2018
-ETH Medal Award for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis 2018
