Edoardo Bellincioni

I am an experimental physicist working in fluid dynamics, interested in geophysical flows, which I study building idealised experiments to understand the underlying physics.

At this time, I am working with Quentin Kriaa on cold pools, supported by a David Crighton Fellowship.

During my PhD, I worked with Sander Huisman and Detlef Lohse on the melting of moving objects. We worked on the melting of unconstrained, floating ice cylinders (see here), on the melting of ice spheres in high levels of turbulence (see here), and on the melting of a rotating ice cylinder. Additionally, together with Jacco Snoeijer and Leen van Wijngaarden, we investigated the lubricating effect of the meltlayer on a melting object, inspired by butter sliding on a hot pan.

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.

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.