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American physicist
Maria Cristina Marchetti (born 1955) is an
Italian -born,
American theoretical
physicist specializing in
statistical physics and
condensed matter physics . In 2019, she received the Leo P. Kadanoff Prize of the
American Physical Society .
[1] She held the
William R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professorship of Physics at
Syracuse University , where she was the director of the Soft and Living Matter program,
[2] and chaired the department 2007–2010. She is currently Professor of Physics at the
University of California, Santa Barbara .
[3]
Education
M. Cristina Marchetti was trained as a physicist at the
University of Pavia in Italy. She studied out-of-equilibrium physics for her graduate degree and received a PhD degree from the
University of Florida in 1982.
[2] Her PhD thesis was entitled "Fluctuations in systems far from equilibrium."
[4]
Professional career
Marchetti was an assistant professor at
Syracuse University from 1987 to 1997. She then became a professor at
Syracuse University from 1997 to 2018. She is now professor at
University of California, Santa Barbara . Marchetti was appointed co lead-editor of the journal
Physical Review X (PRX ), a journal run by the
American Physical Society (APS) in 2016.
[5] She leads the journal with
Jean-Michel Raimond , a professor of physics at the
Université Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris, France.
She was elected a fellow of the
American Physical Society's (APS) Division of Condensed Matter Physics in 2000
[6] for "contributions to the theory of the dynamics of vortex matter and charge-density waves,"
[6] and was vice-chair and chair of the APS Group of Statistical and Nonlinear Physics from 2005 to 2008. She became a fellow of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2013
[7]
[8] and a fellow of the
National Academy of Sciences in 2019.
[9]
She became a co-editor of the
Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics as of 2017.
[10]
Research
Marchetti has made a contribution to the development of the field of
active matter , which is matter composed of self-propelled energy-consuming particles.
[11] Her research focuses on understanding the structure,
phase transitions and
rheology of suspensions and gels made of active matter systems like self-propelled particles,
[12] biological filaments
[13] and biological
cells .
[14] Marchetti is particularly interested in understanding the behavior of cell colonies that grow in confined geometries such as those found in animal and human tissues.
[15]
[16]
[17]
[18] The bulk mechanical properties of these colonies can reveal how the cells in the tissues interact, a problem Marchetti studies theoretically.
Family
Marchetti is married to theoretical physicist
Mark Bowick . They have two adult children, Micol and Alessandro Marchetti-Bowick.
Honors and awards
Publications
References
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"Leo P. Kadanoff Prize" . www.aps.org . Retrieved 2021-03-05 .
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"M. Cristina Marchetti" . thecollege.syr.edu . Retrieved 2019-03-04 .
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"M. Cristina Marchetti | Department of Physics - UC Santa Barbara" . www.physics.ucsb.edu . Retrieved 2021-03-05 .
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"Fluctuations in systems far from equilibrium" . ufdc.ufl.edu . Retrieved 2019-03-04 .
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"Physicist Named Editor of Top Scientific Journal" . SU News . 10 June 2016. Retrieved 2019-03-04 .
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"APS Fellow Archive" . American Physical Society . (search on year=2000 and institution=Syracuse University)
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"Two Syracuse University Professors Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences" . thecollege.syr.edu . Retrieved 2019-03-04 .
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"Elected Fellows" . American Association for the Advancement of Science . Retrieved 2019-03-04 .
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"2019 NAS Election" . www.nasonline.org . Retrieved 30 April 2019 .
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"Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics, Planning Editorial Committee - Volume 8, 2017" . Annual Reviews Directory . Retrieved 14 September 2021 .
^ Popkin, Gabriel (2016-01-07).
"The physics of life" . Nature News . 529 (7584): 16–18.
Bibcode :
2016Natur.529...16P .
doi :
10.1038/529016a .
PMID
26738578 .
^ Fily, Yaouen; Henkes, Silke; Marchetti, M. Cristina (2014). "Freezing and phase separation of self-propelled disks". Soft Matter . 10 (13): 2132–2140.
arXiv :
1309.3714 .
Bibcode :
2014SMat...10.2132F .
doi :
10.1039/C3SM52469H .
ISSN
1744-683X .
PMID
24652167 .
S2CID
1764310 .
^ Liverpool, T. B.; Marchetti, M. C. (2006-12-29). "Rheology of Active Filament Solutions". Physical Review Letters . 97 (26): 268101.
arXiv :
cond-mat/0607285 .
Bibcode :
2006PhRvL..97z8101L .
doi :
10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.268101 .
ISSN
0031-9007 .
PMID
17280467 .
S2CID
758747 .
^ Moshe, Michael; Bowick, Mark J.; Marchetti, M. Cristina (2018-06-29). "Geometric Frustration and Solid-Solid Transitions in Model 2D Tissue". Physical Review Letters . 120 (26): 268105.
arXiv :
1708.07848 .
Bibcode :
2018PhRvL.120z8105M .
doi :
10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.268105 .
ISSN
0031-9007 .
PMID
30004729 .
S2CID
51624991 .
^ Sussman, Daniel M.; Schwarz, J. M.; Marchetti, M. Cristina; Manning, M. Lisa (2018-01-29). "Soft yet Sharp Interfaces in a Vertex Model of Confluent Tissue". Physical Review Letters . 120 (5): 058001.
arXiv :
1710.00708 .
Bibcode :
2018PhRvL.120e8001S .
doi :
10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.058001 .
ISSN
0031-9007 .
PMID
29481188 .
S2CID
206308187 .
^ Bi, Dapeng; Yang, Xingbo; Marchetti, M. Cristina; Manning, M. Lisa (2016-04-21).
"Motility-Driven Glass and Jamming Transitions in Biological Tissues" . Physical Review X . 6 (2): 021011.
arXiv :
1509.06578 .
Bibcode :
2016PhRvX...6b1011B .
doi :
10.1103/PhysRevX.6.021011 .
ISSN
2160-3308 .
PMC
5619672 .
PMID
28966874 .
^ Banerjee, Shiladitya; Utuje, Kazage J. C.; Marchetti, M. Cristina (2015-06-02). "Propagating Stress Waves During Epithelial Expansion". Physical Review Letters . 114 (22): 228101.
arXiv :
1411.2258 .
Bibcode :
2015PhRvL.114v8101B .
doi :
10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.228101 .
ISSN
0031-9007 .
PMID
26196647 .
S2CID
15211036 .
^ Sussman, D. M.; Schwarz, J. M.; Marchetti, M. C.; Manning, M. L. (2018-01-29). "Synopsis: Soft Tissues with Sharp Boundaries". Physics . 120 (5): 058001.
arXiv :
1710.00708 .
Bibcode :
2018PhRvL.120e8001S .
doi :
10.1103/physrevlett.120.058001 .
PMID
29481188 .
S2CID
206308187 .
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"M. Cristina Marchetti" . College of Arts & Sciences at Syracuse University . Retrieved 2021-03-05 .
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"Member Directory | American Academy of Arts and Sciences" . www.amacad.org . Retrieved 2023-02-24 .
External links
International National Academics