M. Cristina Marchetti

M. Cristina Marchetti was trained as a physicist at the University of Pavia in Italy. She studied out-of-equilibrium physics for her graduate degree and received a PhD degree from the University of Florida in 1982.[2] Her PhD thesis was entitled "Fluctuations in systems far from equilibrium."[4]

Marchetti was an assistant professor at Syracuse University from 1987 to 1997. She then became a professor at Syracuse University from 1997 to 2018. She is now professor at University of California, Santa Barbara. Marchetti was appointed co lead-editor of the journal Physical Review X (PRX), a journal run by the American Physical Society (APS) in 2016.[5] She leads the journal with Jean-Michel Raimond, a professor of physics at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris, France.

She was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society's (APS) Division of Condensed Matter Physics in 2000[6] for "contributions to the theory of the dynamics of vortex matter and charge-density waves,"[6] and was vice-chair and chair of the APS Group of Statistical and Nonlinear Physics from 2005 to 2008. She became a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2013[7][8] and a fellow of the National Academy of Sciences in 2019.[9] She became a co-editor of the Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics as of 2017.[10]

Marchetti has made a contribution to the development of the field of active matter, which is matter composed of self-propelled energy-consuming particles.[11] Her research focuses on understanding the structure, phase transitions and rheology of suspensions and gels made of active matter systems like self-propelled particles,[12] biological filaments[13] and biological cells.[14] Marchetti is particularly interested in understanding the behavior of cell colonies that grow in confined geometries such as those found in animal and human tissues.[15][16][17][18] The bulk mechanical properties of these colonies can reveal how the cells in the tissues interact, a problem Marchetti studies theoretically.

Marchetti is married to theoretical physicist Mark Bowick. They have two adult children, Micol and Alessandro Marchetti-Bowick.

• Fellow of the American Physical Society, Division of Condensed Matter Physics (elected 2000)[6]
• Chancellor's Citation for Academic Achievement, Syracuse University, 2005[19]
• Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (elected 2013)[7][8]
• Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences (elected 2019)[9]
• Leo P. Kadanoff Prize, American Physical Society.[1]
• Member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (elected 2014)[20]

• Marchetti, M. C.; et al. (2013). "Hydrodynamics of soft active matter". Reviews of Modern Physics. 85 (3): 1143. Bibcode:2013RvMP...85.1143M. doi:10.1103/RevModPhys.85.1143.

• Marchetti on Google Scholar
• Marchetti Group, UC Santa Barbara