Roberto Natalini is the Director of the Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo "Mauro Picone"of the Italian CNR. He got his Ph.D in Mathematics from University of Bordeaux (France) in 1986. He is research director at Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo "Mauro Picone"of the Italian National Research Council since 1999, after being Associate Professor at University of Rome “La Sapienza” (1998-1999) and researcher in the same institute (1988-1998). He wrote more than 100 referred papers on international mathematical journals. His research themes include: fluid dynamics, road traffic, semiconductors, chemical damage of monuments, biomathematics, game theory in evolutionary dynamics. He is in the Scientific Committee of the Unione Matematica Italiana and coordinates the public awareness site MaddMaths! http://maddmaths.simai.eu/. Since 2015 he is Chair of the Raising Public Awareness of the European Mathematical Society. He is also the Scientific head of the Mathematical Desk for Italian Industries http://www.sportellomatematico.it/.
I explained the real meaning of the Chapman-Enskog diffusive approximation for dissipative hyperbolic systems in terms of their large times asymptotic behavior.
I created a Comics Book series of popular science for CNR, with some of the best comics authors in Italy (Ortolani, Silver, Zero Calcare…).