Rossana Pasquino - Member at Large

Rossana Pasquino (class 1982) is currently a Full Professor at the Department of Chemical, Materials and Industrial Production Engineering (DICMaPI) at the University of Naples Federico II in Italy. She earned her Ph.D. in 2008 from Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II through a joint project between her home university and KU Leuven in Belgium. Following her doctoral studies, she spent a year as a Postdoc working between Belgium and Italy. She was awarded a Marie Curie fellowship in the Initial Training Network Dynacop which led her to move to FORTH in Heraklion, Greece. Additionally, she has been visiting professors at ETH Zurich, Switzerland in 2015 and at Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada in 2018.

Rossana Pasquino is renowned for her research in the rheology and scattering of complex fluids, with particular emphasis on using rheology as a tool to investigate morphology and microstructural properties. Her work encompasses various aspects of soft matter, including surfactant solutions, gels, polymers, and suspensions. She has authored roughly 90 scientific publications in peer-reviewed journals and she has a strong collaboration with industrial partners, including food companies and home care industries, to formulate and design products.
Since 2019, she has served as Senior Associate Editor for Physics of Fluids (AIP Publishing), and since 2018 she has been a member of the Editorial Board of Soft Matter (ACS Publications). She previously served as an Editor for AIP Advances (AIP Publishing). She has been the Founding Deputy Editor of Transport Phenomena/Open Transport (De Gruyter Brill) since early 2026.

She has played a significant role in the organization of major conferences and has delivered keynote lectures at various international conferences.

In recognition of her contributions, she received the Distinguished Young Rheologist Award from TA Instruments in 2018. She has been recently elected as Member at Large for the Society of Rheology (Executive Committee 2026-2028).