Andrea Mola
Associate Professor
Trieste, Friuli – Venezia Giulia, Italy
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Top SchoolAndrea Mola is an Associate Professor and computational scientist with over a decade of experience developing numerical methods for large-scale dynamical problems in engineering and physics. He holds dual PhDs in Mathematical Engineering (Politecnico di Milano) and Engineering Mechanics (Virginia Tech) and began his career blending academic research with industry-applied projects, from marine wave simulation to ship hull and propeller performance prediction. His work focuses on computational fluid dynamics and finite element methods, often funded by competitive regional, national, and European grants and driven by real industrial needs. Andrea is an active contributor to the deal.II community, where he integrated OpenCASCADE CAD support and advanced surface projection tools for robust geometry handling in complex simulations. Based in Trieste, he combines rigorous mathematical training with practical software development, revealing a rare depth in both theoretical analysis and hands-on code for production-grade simulation. Colleagues know him for turning challenging multiphysics problems into tested, reproducible computational workflows.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Engineering Science and Mechanics, PhD, Engineering Science and Mechanics at Virginia TechPhD, Mathematical Engineerning, PhD, Mathematical Engineerning at Politecnico di Milano
English
Github Skills (4)
cprogramming-language10
c-language10
opencascade10
finite-element-analysis9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
dealii/dealii
Sep 2014 - May 2015
The development repository for the deal.II finite element library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & OpenCASCADE Specialist
Back-end Developer & OpenCASCADE SpecialistContributions:8 commits, 3 PRs, 8 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Andrea primarily focused on the development and integration of OpenCASCADE features within the deal.II finite element library. Their work involved importing and manipulating CAD geometries, specifically for the "step-54" example. They implemented and refined different surface projection methods and fixed related bugs in the `boundary_lib`. They also added support for STEP file read/write operations and created corresponding tests.
dealmultiphysicsc-plus-pluscomputational-sciencefinite-elements
mathLab/WaveBEM
Sep 2013 - Mar 2017
Contributions:103 commits, 2 PRs, 1 push in 3 years 6 months
interactionshipnonlinearpotential-flowsolver
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