Edoardo Bellincioni

I am a physicist, working on fluid dynamics.

At this time, I am working on my PhD with Sander Husiman and Detlef Lohse on the melting of moving objects. So far, we have worked on the melting of unconstrained, floating ice cylinders (see here) and on the melting of ice spheres in high levels of turbulence (see here). Recently, together with Jacco Snoeijer and Leen van Wijngaarden, we started to get interested in the lubricating effect of the meltlayer on a melting object.

I was a fellow of the 2025 edition of the GFD Program hosted by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, where I worked with Claudia Cenedese and Jim McElwaine on the interactions and instabilities of two floating currents in a rotating environment.

As an early-career fluid dynamicists, I am trying to diversify my interests to cover a wide range of fluid dynamics phaenomena. It is under this light that my choice of working with low and high Reynolds number flows has to be seen. Or, similarly, my will to collaborate with oceanographers and glaciologists, to learn how my idealised laboratory work can help their fields, and to get inspiration for a next project.

My forma mentis is the one that I have acquired during my Physics studies: I strive to summarize observations using explanatory and predictive theories. I aim to delve into fundamental processes, rather than into how these reveal themselves in incidental manifestations.