Dr Alice Cicirello is a University Assistant Professor in Applied Mechanics at the Cambridge University Engineering Department and a Fellow at Churchill College. She is the founder and head of the Data, Vibration and Uncertainty group and Executive board member of the European Association of Structural Dynamics. Alice was the chair of the first three editions of the workshops on Physics-enhancing Machine Learning (PEML) in Applied Mechanics, and of the first 3-day PEML event in 2025 at the Headquarters of the Institute of Physics.

Alice obtained her PhD from the University of Cambridge in 2013. She was a Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher (2009-2012) and a Research Associate (2012-2014) at the same institution. Alice worked as a Senior Research Scientist at SLB (2014-2017) and returned to academia as a Lecturer at the University of Oxford (Engineering Science Department and Balliol College, 2017-2019), and then continued as an Associate Professor and Section Head at TU Delft (2020-2023). Alice was also an Alexander von Humboldt Experienced Research Fellow (2023- 25).

Alice is serving in the Editorial boards of Data-Centric Engineering, Machine Learning: Engineering, Advances in Engineering Software, Machine Learning: Engineering, ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part A: Civil Engineering, and ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part B: Mechanical Engineering, and has served in the scientific and organising committees of several international workshops and conferences. Alice held visiting positions at several research institutions, including MIT, the Alan Turing Institute, and the University of Oxford.