Silvia Paparini
Silvia Paparini
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I am currently a post-doc fellow at the Department of Mathematics "Tullio Levi-Civita", Università di Padova, Italy,
with a type B research grant to carry out research activities relevant to the project entitled
Topological Defects as Morphogenetic Factors.
I am currently a post-doc fellow at the Department of Mathematics "Tullio Levi-Civita", Università di Padova, Italy,
with a type B research grant to carry out research activities relevant to the project entitled
Topological Defects as Morphogenetic Factors.
Fields of Specialization:Applied mathematics, soft matter mathematical modelling, variational theories for Liquid Crystals (LCs) and Liquid crystalline networks (LCNs), dynamical theories for LCs, free-boundary problems, generalized elasticity and elastic frustration in LC theory, topological defects in LCs and LCNs, shocks waves in LCs.
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News
Sept 3, 2025 – Submitted a Review article on Phenomenological Models for Chromonic Liquid Crystals to arXiv.
Aug 25, 2025 – New paper published in the Journal of Elasticity: link to article.
Aug 1, 2025 – Selected as Principal Investigator (PI) of the GNFM 2025 Young Project “Topological Defects in Nematics as Locations for Extruding Cancer Cells”, funded by the Gruppo Nazionale per la Fisica Matematica.
Jan 1, 2025 – Participant in the PRIN Project “Mathematical Models for Viscoelastic Biological Matter” (PI: Prof. Giulio G. Giusteri).
June 6, 2025 – Awarded the Best Oral Presentation Prize at the 17th European Conference on Liquid Crystals (ECLC2025).
May 27, 2024 – Awarded the Daniela Pucci Prize (Italian Liquid Crystal Society – SICL) for the best PhD thesis on liquid crystals (2022–2023).
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