Riccarda Rossi

Riccarda Rossi is an Associate Professor at the Department of Information Engineering (DIMI), University of Brescia. Her research focuses on mathematical analysis of complex systems, particularly rate-independent processes, damage mechanics, and gradient flows in metric spaces. She has contributed to theories of elastoplasticity, viscoelasticity, and fracture mechanics, emphasizing rigorous existence and uniqueness results for PDE systems.

Education details are not explicitly listed, but her work spans interdisciplinary areas combining calculus of variations, nonlinear PDEs, and applied analysis. Recent research includes models for adhesive contact, phase transitions, and coupled multi-physical phenomena.

Research Themes:

• Rate-independent systems and their viscous approximations
• Damage and fracture mechanics
• Generalized gradient flows in metric spaces
• Thermodynamic consistency in material models

Her work frequently appears in top journals like Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis, SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis, and Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied Sciences. She has collaborated extensively with researchers such as Alexander Mielke, Giuseppe Savaré, and Marita Thomas.

Rossi has organized workshops and given invited talks at international conferences on partial differential equations and calculus of variations. Current research directions include singular limits for coupled systems and non-smooth dynamics in continuum mechanics.