Paola Cinnella is a full professor in Fluid Mechanics at Sorbonne University in Paris and member of the Jean Le Rond D’Alembert Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. Graduated in Mechanical Engineering from Politecnico di Bari in Italy in 1995, she received her Ph.D. in Fluid Mechanics from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Arts et Métiers in Paris in 1999.

Her research field is in Computational Fluid Dynamics and related topics, including optimization, uncertainty quantification, and data-driven modelling, with application to compressible and turbulent flows in Aerospace and Energy applications. She is Editor in Chief of Computers & Fluids, associate editor of the International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow, editorial board member for Flow, Turbulence and Combustion, scientific Secretary of the International Conference in Computational Fluid Dynamics (ICCFD) and coordinator of the Scientific Interest group “Machine Learning in Fluid Dynamics” of ERCOFTAC (European Research Community in Flow, Turbulence and Combustion).