Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Nuclear Engineering, Texas A&M University (College Station, TX, USA) — Feb 2025–present
Research Fellow, TAMIDS Digital Twin Lab, Texas A&M University (College Station, TX, USA) — Jun 2025–present
Developing reduced-order models and minimally-intrusive surrogates for digital twinning, inverse problems, and data assimilation; studying ensemble-based optimization for indirect inference and uncertainty-aware updates; investigating optimal experimental design and sensor placement.
Research Assistant, Department of Nuclear Engineering, Politecnico di Milano (Milan, Italy) — Mar–Jun 2019
Non-intrusive model order reduction for state estimation; supervision/support of Master’s theses.
R&D Intern, SINETICS Group, Électricité de France (Palaiseau, France) — Jul–Dec 2017
Non-intrusive reduced basis methods for inverse problems in PWRs; GEIM implementation and sensor selection for accurate field reconstruction.
Ph.D., Applied Mathematics, Eindhoven University of Technology (Eindhoven, Netherlands) — Dec 2019–Oct 2024
Thesis: Reduced Order Modeling Techniques for Ensemble-based Data Assimilation.
Ph.D., Applied Mathematics (interrupted/resumed), RWTH Aachen University (Aachen, Germany) — Jul–Nov 2019
M.Sc., Nuclear Engineering, Politecnico di Milano (Milan, Italy) — Oct 2015–Oct 2018
Thesis: Development of a Data-Driven Approach based on the Empirical Interpolation Method for Thermal-Hydraulics Analysis.
Final grade: 110/110 cum laude.
B.Sc., Energy Engineering, Politecnico di Milano (Milan, Italy) — Sep 2012–Sep 2015
Thesis: Design and Prototyping of a Digital Coin Counter.
Final grade: 110/110 cum laude.
Co-Founder & Board Member, CambiaMenti APS (Robbiate, Italy) — Apr 2012–present
Cultural association promoting scientific, cultural, and political discourse through public events.
Junior Organizer, MORSS 2020 (Lausanne, Switzerland; online) — Mar–Sep 2020
For a complete list of talks and presentations, see the Talks page.
Silva, F. A. B., & Ragusa, J. C. (2026). “Learning low-rank neutron transport dynamics on linear and nonlinear manifolds: a data-driven semi-intrusive approach.” In revision.
Tamim, M. H., Silva, F. A. B., Krpan, R., Fiorina, C., & Ragusa, J. C. (2026). “A generalized empirical interpolation method for direct multi-physics state reconstruction.” In revision.
Di Gennaro, M., Pizzocri, D., Silva, F. A. B., Zullo, G., Lorenzi, S., Cammi, A., & Luzzi, L. (2026). “Improved reduced order modelling for time-dependent fission gas diffusion in columnar grains tailored for fuel performance applications.” Nuclear Engineering and Technology, 58(6). 104178. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.net.2026.104178
Silva, F. A. B., Ragusa, J. C., & Fiorina, C. (2025). “Optimal sensor placement and ensemble Kalman inversion for multiphysics reactor state estimation.” Results in Engineering, 29. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rineng.2025.108389
Silva, F. A. B., Pagliantini, C., & Veroy, K. (2025). “An adaptive hierarchical ensemble Kalman filter with reduced basis models.” SIAM/ASA Journal on Uncertainty Quantification, 13(1). https://epubs.siam.org/doi/10.1137/24M1653690
Silva, F. A. B., Pagliantini, C., Grepl, M., & Veroy, K. (2023). “A reduced basis ensemble Kalman method.” GEM - International Journal on Geomathematics, 14(24). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13137-023-00235-8
Pizzocri, D., Di Gennaro, M., Barani, T., Silva, F. A. B., Zullo, G., Lorenzi, S., & Cammi, A. (2023). “A reduced order model for fission gas diffusion in columnar grains.” Nuclear Engineering and Technology, 55(11). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.net.2023.07.013
Guo, T., Silva, F. A. B., Rokos, O., & Veroy, K. (2022). “Learning constitutive models from microstructural simulations via a non-intrusive reduced basis method: Extension to geometrical parameterizations.” Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 401. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2022.115636
Silva, F. A. B., Lorenzi, S., & Cammi, A. (2021). “An empirical interpolation method for two-dimensional vector fields and vector measurements.” International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 122(15). https://doi.org/10.1002/nme.6679