Alberto Scacchi
PhD in Physics
alberto.scacchi@utu.fi +358 29 450 2866 +358 50 473 8807 Office: P77 ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4606-5400 |
Biophysics; Active Matter; Self-Assembly; Phase Separation; Colloidal Films; Polymer Films; Liquid Liquid Phase Separation; Classical Density Functional Theory; Particle Based Simulations.
Head of the Computational Soft Matter Group.
I obtained my PhD in Physics from the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, in 2018. Funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, I pursued my first postdoctoral research at Loughborough University, in the United Kingdom, until the summer of 2020. Subsequently, I have been a postdoctoral researcher at Aalto University, Finland, working in three different departments: Chemistry and Materials, Applied Physics, and Bioproducts and Biosystems. Since June 2024, I have been an Assistant Professor of Computational Materials Engineering at the Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering of the University of Turku.
My broad research interest spans from the application of different numerical simulations (such as Brownian dynamics, dissipative particle dynamics and coarse-grained molecular dynamics) and statistical mechanics theories (classical density functional theories) to study the (non-)equilibrium morphological response of different systems, such as, e.g., colloidal suspensions, nano-particles, proteins, and a variety of polymeric morphologies in different environments. One of the main aims of my research is to provide accessible theoretical tools able to connect the molecular details of soft matter component systems to their mesoscopic response.
- Mechanical Properties of Materials MTEK0005 (Autumn)
- Multiscale Modelling MTEK0033 (Spring)
- Quasicrystal formation in binary soft matter mixtures (2020)
- Physical Review Research
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Sensitive dependence on molecular interactions of length scales in sheared soft matter (2020)
- Physical Review Research
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Escape rate of transiently active Brownian particle in one dimension (2019)
- Physical review E
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Flow induced crystallisation of penetrable particles (2018)
- Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Local phase transitions in driven colloidal suspensions (2018)
- Molecular Physics
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Mean first passage time of active Brownian particle in one dimension (2018)
- Molecular Physics
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Dynamical density functional theory analysis of the laning instability in sheared soft matter (2017)
- Physical review E
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Effective equilibrium states in the colored-noise model for active matter I. Pairwise forces in the Fox and unified colored noise approximations (2017)
- Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Shear-induced migration in colloidal suspensions (2017)
- Molecular Physics
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Driven colloidal fluids: construction of dynamical density functional theories from exactly solvable limits (2016)
- Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Microrheology close to an equilibrium phase transition (2014)
- Journal of Chemical Physics
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)