Associate Professor
Department of Physics
University of California, San Diego
Nonlinear Dynamics and Physics of Complex Systems
Mattia Serra
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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
2026 -
Associate Professor
University of California, San Diego, Department of Physics
Assistant Professor
University of California, San Diego, Department of Physics
2020 - 2025
Schmidt Science Fellow - Applied Mathematics
Harvard University
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Mentor: Prof. L. Mahadevan
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