Andrea Giometto

Andrea Giometto is an Assistant Professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Cornell University, part of the College of Engineering. He holds affiliations with Applied Mathematics, Biological and Environmental Engineering, and Microbiology. His research focuses on spatial growth of microbial communities, integrating statistical physics, experiments, and genetic engineering to study ecological and evolutionary processes in spatially extended systems.

Education: Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering (EPFL, 2015), M.Sc. and B.Sc. in Physics (University of Padova). Postdoctoral research at Harvard University, supported by Swiss National Science Foundation fellowships. Visiting scientist at Imperial College London and Eawag, Switzerland.

Research interests include microbial population dynamics, resource competition, and scaling patterns in ecosystems. Key methods involve microfluidics, evolutionary experiments, and mathematical modeling. Recent work explores how physical interactions and environmental factors shape microbial behavior and community structure.

• Awards: Earth Science Award (EPFL, 2016), Swiss National Science Foundation Postdoc Fellowships (2016–2018).
• Grants: Funded by Swiss National Science Foundation and Cornell Engineering.

Labs/Teams: Leads research in microbial systems biology and evolutionary ecology at Cornell, collaborating with interdisciplinary teams in biophysics and environmental engineering.