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Education

Ph.D in Fluid Mechanics, Universitè de Poitiers 🇫🇷, 2026 (expected)
M.S. in Fluid Dynamics, Von Karman Institute 🇧🇪, 2023
M.S. in Aerospace Engineering, Université de Liège 🇧🇪, 2022
M.S. in Aeronautical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano 🇮🇹, 2022
B.S. in Aerospace Engineering, Politecnico di Milano 🇮🇹, 2019

Work experience

Jun. 2025: Visiting PHD Student
- Department of Chemical Engineering and Technology, KTH 🇸🇪
- Host: Christophe Duwig
Apr. 2024 - Jun. 2024: Visiting PHD Student
- Vinuesa Lab, KTH 🇸🇪
- Supervisor: Ricardo Vinuesa
Oct. 2022 - Jun. 2023: Postgraduate Intership
- Turbomachinery and Propulsion Department, VKI 🇧🇪
- Supervisor: Frank Eulitz, Sergio Lavagnoli
Feb. 2022 - Sep. 2022: Master Thesis Intership
- Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Department, ULiège 🇧🇪
- Multiphysic and Turbulent Flow Computation Group,
- Supervisor: Vincent Terrapon, Koen Hillewaert

Others

Feb. 2025 - Oct. 2026: PhD Student Representative
- PPrime Institute, Université de Poitiers 🇫🇷
Oct. 2022 - Jun. 2023: Student Representative
- Von Karman Institute 🇧🇪

Awards & Honors

Oct. 2022: Statement of recognition of a special Achievement through Working Abroad for academic Research or industrial Development projects, Politecnico di Milano 🏆

Publications

VIVALDy: A Hybrid Generative Reduced-Order Model for Turbulent Flows, Applied to Vortex-Induced Vibrations

Tonioni, N., Agostini, L., Cordier, L., & Vinuesa, R. (2025). VIVALDy: A Hybrid Generative Reduced-Order Model for Turbulent Flows, Applied to Vortex-Induced Vibrations. arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.24965.

Simulation of a wingtip vortex flow with Linear Eddy Viscosity turbulence models at Re=4.6E6 and Re=1.2E6

Talks

Vivaldy: AI-Driven Low-Order Modeling of Vortex-Induced-Vibrations

May 30, 2025

Conference talk at 1st International Symposium AI and Fluid Dynamics, Chania, GR

Data-driven modeling of near-wall turbulence using β-variational autoencoder, transformers, and adversarial loss

April 02, 2025

Conference talk at Joint event Euromech Colloquium on Data-Driven Fluid Dynamics & 2nd ERCOFTAC Workshop on Machine Learning for Fluid Dynamics, London, GB

Reduced-oreder modeling of experimental turbulent flows: from linear projection-based methods to autoencoders

February 17, 2025

Conference talk at Digital Twins in Engineering & Artificial Intelligence and Computational Methods in Applied Science. DTE-AICOMAS 2025, Paris, FR

Niccolò Tonioni

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