{"id":9,"date":"2020-09-23T15:02:56","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T14:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maths.nottingham.ac.uk\/personal\/pmzmi1\/?page_id=9"},"modified":"2026-10-20T12:20:35","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T11:20:35","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.maths.nottingham.ac.uk\/personal\/pmzmi1\/","title":{"rendered":"Matteo Icardi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Associate Professor in Applied Mathematics<br>School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Nottingham<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.matteoicardi.it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Personal website: matteoicardi.it<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=KbKLuDYAAAAJ&amp;hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Publications (Google Scholar)<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.matteoicardi.it\/phd.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">PhD projects<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/MultiForm-UoN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">MultiForm on GitHub<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Matteo is an applied mathematician working on flow and transport in complex materials: soils, rocks, filters, batteries and peatlands. He builds mathematical models across scales, analyses them, and turns them into open-source simulation tools, mostly in OpenFOAM. He leads the MultiForm group (Multiscale Fluid Dynamics and Porous Media) and coordinates the <a href=\"https:\/\/mathpeatnet.work\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">MATHPEAT network<\/a> on the mathematics of peatlands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He joined Nottingham in 2017, after a Zeeman Lectureship at the University of Warwick and postdoctoral positions at UT Austin, KAUST and Politecnico di Torino, where he obtained his PhD in Chemical Engineering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>News, research, software and PhD opportunities are on his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.matteoicardi.it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">personal website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.maths.nottingham.ac.uk\/personal\/pmzmi1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2022\/07\/dtGRFexp-velocita2-edited.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31\" width=\"708\" height=\"708\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.maths.nottingham.ac.uk\/personal\/pmzmi1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2022\/07\/dtGRFexp-velocita2-edited.png 1345w, https:\/\/www.maths.nottingham.ac.uk\/personal\/pmzmi1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2022\/07\/dtGRFexp-velocita2-edited-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.maths.nottingham.ac.uk\/personal\/pmzmi1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2022\/07\/dtGRFexp-velocita2-edited-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.maths.nottingham.ac.uk\/personal\/pmzmi1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2022\/07\/dtGRFexp-velocita2-edited-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.maths.nottingham.ac.uk\/personal\/pmzmi1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2022\/07\/dtGRFexp-velocita2-edited-768x768.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 708px) 100vw, 708px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Teaching<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>He teaches first-year calculus and mathematics for scientists and engineers, applied mathematics and differential equations, and at postgraduate level scientific computing and multiscale modelling. He likes courses where students build a model, solve it, and check that the answer makes sense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Contacts<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Room C43<br>Mathematical Sciences<br>University Park<br>Nottingham<br>NG7 2RD<br>UK<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Telephone<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p>0115 9514950<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Email<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"mailto:matteo.icardi@nottingham.ac.uk\">matteo.icardi@nottingham.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associate Professor in Applied MathematicsSchool of Mathematical Sciences, University of Nottingham Personal website: matteoicardi.it Publications (Google Scholar) \u00b7 PhD projects&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maths.nottingham.ac.uk\/personal\/pmzmi1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maths.nottingham.ac.uk\/personal\/pmzmi1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maths.nottingham.ac.uk\/personal\/pmzmi1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maths.nottingham.ac.uk\/personal\/pmzmi1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maths.nottingham.ac.uk\/personal\/pmzmi1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.maths.nottingham.ac.uk\/personal\/pmzmi1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45,"href":"https:\/\/www.maths.nottingham.ac.uk\/personal\/pmzmi1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions\/45"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maths.nottingham.ac.uk\/personal\/pmzmi1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}