M. Cristina Marchetti
{{short description|American physicist}}
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1955|12|11}}
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| fields = Statistical physics, Condensed matter theory
| workplaces = Syracuse University,
University of California, Santa Barbara
| alma_mater = University of Pavia,
University of Florida
| doctoral_advisor = James W. Dufty
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| thesis_title = Fluctuations in systems far from equilibrium
| thesis_url = http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00097433/00001
| thesis_year = 1982
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| known_for = Collective behavior of active matter systems
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| awards = Leo P. Kadanoff Prize {{small|(2019)}}
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| website = {{URL|https://marchetti.physics.ucsb.edu/}}
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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.{{Cite web|title=Leo P. Kadanoff Prize|url=http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/kadanoff.cfm|access-date=2021-03-05|website=www.aps.org|language=en}} 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, and chaired the department 2007–2010. She is currently Professor of Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara.{{Cite web|title=M. Cristina Marchetti {{!}} Department of Physics - UC Santa Barbara|url=https://www.physics.ucsb.edu/people/m-cristina-marchetti|access-date=2021-03-05|website=www.physics.ucsb.edu}}
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.{{Cite web|url=http://thecollege.syr.edu/people/faculty/pages/phy/marchetti-cristina.html|title=M. Cristina Marchetti|website=thecollege.syr.edu|access-date=2019-03-04}} Her PhD thesis was entitled "Fluctuations in systems far from equilibrium."{{Cite web|url=http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00097433/00001|title=Fluctuations in systems far from equilibrium|website=ufdc.ufl.edu|language=en|access-date=2019-03-04}}
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.{{Cite web|url=https://news.syr.edu/blog/2016/06/10/physicist-named-editor-of-top-scientific-journal-32309/|title=Physicist Named Editor of Top Scientific Journal|website=SU News|date=10 June 2016 |language=en-US|access-date=2019-03-04}} 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{{cite web|title=APS Fellow Archive|website=American Physical Society|url=https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/fellowships/archive-all.cfm?initial=&year=2000&unit_id=&institution=Syracuse+University}} (search on year=2000 and institution=Syracuse University) for "contributions to the theory of the dynamics of vortex matter and charge-density waves," 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{{Cite web|title=Two Syracuse University Professors Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences|url=http://thecollege.syr.edu/news/2014/saunders_marchetti_academy.html?_ga=2.69874000.1115170728.1551706143-1443319282.1550594343|access-date=2019-03-04|website=thecollege.syr.edu}}{{Cite web|title=Elected Fellows|url=https://www.aaas.org/fellows/listing|access-date=2019-03-04|website=American Association for the Advancement of Science|language=en}} and a fellow of the National Academy of Sciences in 2019.{{cite web|title=2019 NAS Election|url=http://www.nasonline.org/news-and-multimedia/news/2019-nas-election.html|access-date=30 April 2019|website=www.nasonline.org}}
She became a co-editor of the Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics as of 2017.{{cite web |title=Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics, Planning Editorial Committee - Volume 8, 2017 |url=https://www.annualreviews.org/db/directory?2017,conmatphys |website=Annual Reviews Directory |access-date=14 September 2021}}
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.{{Cite journal|last=Popkin|first=Gabriel|date=2016-01-07|title=The physics of life|journal=Nature News|language=en|volume=529|issue=7584|pages=16–18|doi=10.1038/529016a|pmid=26738578|bibcode=2016Natur.529...16P|doi-access=free}} Her research focuses on understanding the structure, phase transitions and rheology of suspensions and gels made of active matter systems like self-propelled particles,{{Cite journal|last1=Fily|first1=Yaouen|last2=Henkes|first2=Silke|last3=Marchetti|first3=M. Cristina|date=2014|title=Freezing and phase separation of self-propelled disks|journal=Soft Matter|language=en|volume=10|issue=13|pages=2132–2140|doi=10.1039/C3SM52469H|pmid=24652167|issn=1744-683X|bibcode=2014SMat...10.2132F|arxiv=1309.3714|s2cid=1764310}} biological filaments{{Cite journal|last1=Liverpool|first1=T. B.|last2=Marchetti|first2=M. C.|date=2006-12-29|title=Rheology of Active Filament Solutions|journal=Physical Review Letters|language=en|volume=97|issue=26|pages=268101|doi=10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.268101|pmid=17280467|issn=0031-9007|bibcode=2006PhRvL..97z8101L|arxiv=cond-mat/0607285|s2cid=758747}} and biological cells.{{Cite journal|last1=Moshe|first1=Michael|last2=Bowick|first2=Mark J.|last3=Marchetti|first3=M. Cristina|date=2018-06-29|title=Geometric Frustration and Solid-Solid Transitions in Model 2D Tissue|journal=Physical Review Letters|language=en|volume=120|issue=26|pages=268105|doi=10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.268105|pmid=30004729|issn=0031-9007|bibcode=2018PhRvL.120z8105M|arxiv=1708.07848|s2cid=51624991}} 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.{{Cite journal|last1=Sussman|first1=Daniel M.|last2=Schwarz|first2=J. M.|author2-link=Jennifer Schwarz|last3=Marchetti|first3=M. Cristina|last4=Manning|first4=M. Lisa|date=2018-01-29|title=Soft yet Sharp Interfaces in a Vertex Model of Confluent Tissue|journal=Physical Review Letters|language=en|volume=120|issue=5|pages=058001|doi=10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.058001|pmid=29481188|issn=0031-9007|bibcode=2018PhRvL.120e8001S|arxiv=1710.00708|s2cid=206308187}}{{Cite journal|last1=Bi|first1=Dapeng|last2=Yang|first2=Xingbo|last3=Marchetti|first3=M. Cristina|last4=Manning|first4=M. Lisa|date=2016-04-21|title=Motility-Driven Glass and Jamming Transitions in Biological Tissues|journal=Physical Review X|language=en|volume=6|issue=2|pages=021011|doi=10.1103/PhysRevX.6.021011|issn=2160-3308|pmc=5619672|pmid=28966874|bibcode=2016PhRvX...6b1011B|arxiv=1509.06578}}{{Cite journal|last1=Banerjee|first1=Shiladitya|last2=Utuje|first2=Kazage J. C.|last3=Marchetti|first3=M. Cristina|date=2015-06-02|title=Propagating Stress Waves During Epithelial Expansion|journal=Physical Review Letters|language=en|volume=114|issue=22|pages=228101|doi=10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.228101|pmid=26196647|issn=0031-9007|bibcode=2015PhRvL.114v8101B|arxiv=1411.2258|s2cid=15211036}}{{Cite journal|date=2018-01-29|title=Synopsis: Soft Tissues with Sharp Boundaries|journal=Physics|volume=120|issue=5|pages=058001|language=en|doi=10.1103/physrevlett.120.058001|pmid=29481188|last1=Sussman|first1=D. M.|last2=Schwarz|first2=J. M.|author2-link=Jennifer Schwarz|last3=Marchetti|first3=M. C.|last4=Manning|first4=M. L.|arxiv=1710.00708|bibcode=2018PhRvL.120e8001S|s2cid=206308187}} 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
- Fellow of the American Physical Society, Division of Condensed Matter Physics (elected 2000)
- Chancellor's Citation for Academic Achievement, Syracuse University, 2005{{Cite web|title=M. Cristina Marchetti|url=https://thecollege.syr.edu/people/faculty/marchetti-m-cristina/|access-date=2021-03-05|website=College of Arts & Sciences at Syracuse University|language=en-us}}
- Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (elected 2013)
- Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences (elected 2019)
- Leo P. Kadanoff Prize, American Physical Society.
- Member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (elected 2014){{Cite web |title=Member Directory {{!}} American Academy of Arts and Sciences |url=https://www.amacad.org/directory?search_api_fulltext=Marchetti&field_class_section=All&field_class_section_1=All&field_deceased=All&sort_bef_combine=search_api_relevance_DESC |access-date=2023-02-24 |website=www.amacad.org}}
Publications
- {{cite journal | last1=Marchetti | first1=M. C. | last2=Joanny | first2=J. F. | last3=Ramaswamy | first3=S. | last4=Liverpool | first4=T. B. | last5=Prost | first5=J. | last6=Rao | first6=Madan | last7=Simha | first7=R. Aditi | year=2013 | title=Hydrodynamics of soft active matter | journal = Reviews of Modern Physics | volume = 85 | issue = 3 | page = 1143 | doi = 10.1103/RevModPhys.85.1143 |bibcode = 2013RvMP...85.1143M | display-authors=1}}
References
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External links
- [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=OBTWT_gAAAAJ Marchetti on Google Scholar ]
- [https://marchetti.physics.ucsb.edu/people Marchetti Group, UC Santa Barbara]
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Category:Italian women physicists
Category:University of Pavia alumni
Category:University of Florida alumni
Category:University of California, Santa Barbara faculty
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Category:Fellows of the American Physical Society
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