Maria Giuseppina Chiara Nestola is a Researcher at the Faculty of Informatics, Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), and partially affiliated with the Department of Earth Sciences at ETH Zurich. Her work focuses on developing advanced numerical methods for fluid-structure interaction (FSI), immersed boundary techniques, and fracture network modeling in biomedical and geophysical contexts. She contributes to projects like FASTER (geothermal reservoir simulations) and HPC-PREDICT (cardiovascular prognosis), and leads software development for tools like AV-FLOW (FSI library), Parrot (fracture network modeling), and Utopia (linear algebra). Her research integrates high-performance computing with applications in geophysics (e.g., seismic hazard assessment, geothermal systems) and biomechanics (e.g., aortic valve dynamics, turbulent blood flow). Key collaborations include the Center for Computational Medicine in Cardiology and the Swiss Competence Center for Energy Research (SCCER-SoE). She holds roles as FOMICS administrator and project co-PI/co-investigator in PASC initiatives. Her technical expertise spans parallel algorithms, embedded finite-element methods, and multi-physics simulations. Current efforts emphasize real-time geothermal reservoir modeling using Multilevel Monte Carlo methods and benchmarking fracture flow simulations.






