Luca Magri

Luca Magri is a Professor of Scientific Machine Learning at Imperial College London's Department of Aeronautics (Faculty of Engineering), leading the MagriLab. He holds dual roles as Director of Research in Aeronautics and Director of the Research Centre in Data-Driven Engineering. He is also a Professor in Fluid Mechanics at Politecnico di Torino under the PNRR project on Twin Real-time digital twins. His research bridges physics-aware machine learning, data assimilation, and fluid mechanics, with applications in quantum computing, turbulence modeling, and thermoacoustics.

Magri completed his PhD in Engineering at the University of Cambridge (2012-2015) and held postdoctoral roles at Stanford University (2015-2016). He has been a Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow (2016-2021), Simons Fellow (2022-2023), and Hans Fischer Fellow at TUM (2018-2021). He leads the Alan Turing Institute's Scientific Machine Learning group and collaborates with institutions like Pembroke College and the Isaac Newton Institute.

His research interests span quantum reservoir computing, data-driven stability analysis, and real-time digital twins for combustion systems. Key projects include optimizing wind farm layouts and suppressing extreme events in chaotic flows. He has pioneered methods like Proper Latent Decomposition (PLD) and physics-constrained neural networks for turbulence reconstruction.

Magri has secured funding from EPSRC, Royal Academy of Engineering, and EU initiatives. His group includes engineers, physicists, and computer scientists addressing net-zero challenges in aerospace propulsion and energy systems. Recent work focuses on quantum computing for nonlinear PDEs and AI-driven process design in manufacturing.