SCUOLA IMT ALTI STUDI LUCCA - Key Persons
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An drea Perna is Assistant Professor at the IMT School of Advanced Studies. His research focuses on the characterisation and modelling of complex biological systems. He has authored major scientific contributions in areas of collective animal behaviour (e.g. flocking), self-organised pattern-formation (e.g. the morphogenesis of termite nests) and ecology. After a PhD in neurobiology and psychophysics of the human brain obtained from the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa, he went on to take postdoctoral positions at various European academic institutions: the Complex Systems Institute of Paris-Ile de France (France), the University of Brussels (Belgium) and the University of Uppsala (Sweden). From 2016 to 2023 Andrea Perna was a Senior Lecturer (tenured) in Theoretical Biology at the University of Roehampton (UK), where he developed teaching modules in data analysis and quantitative biology, and he led a research group in quantitative biology (supported by funding from The Royal Society and from The Leverhulme Trust). At IMT Andrea Perna develops research aimed at understanding the micro-level assemblage principles of ecological networks.
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- Assistant Professor
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Angelo Facchini works on the topic of the Sustainability science and sustainable urban development
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- Director of NETWORKS
- Director of NETWORKS / Research
Diego Garlaschelli is the Director of NETWORKS. He is Professor of Theoretical Physics at the IMT School of Advanced Studies in Lucca (IT), where he leads the Networks research unit, and at the Lorentz Institute for Theoretical Physics of Leiden University (NL), where he leads the Econophysics and Network Theory group. He is an external faculty member at the Complexity Science Hub (CSH) in Vienna, an associate member at the Enrico Fermi Research Center (CREF) in Rome, a cofounder of the Dutch Network Science Society (NetSci.nl), a member of the Italian Statistical Physics Society (SIFS), of the Dutch Physical Society (NNV), and of the Italian National Institute for Advanced Mathematics (INdAM).
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- Member of the Advisory Committee
- Membro Designato Dalla Fondazione Cassa Di Risparmio Di Lucca
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- External Member Designated by the Academic Senate )
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- Technical - Administrative
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- Associated Professor, IMT School )
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- Assistant Professor
- Assistant Professor at the IMT School of Advanced Studies
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Miguel Ibáñez Berganza is Assistant Professor at the IMT School of Advanced Studies in Lucca since April 2023. He is a researcher with interests in statistical inference, computational neuroscience, cognitive science and epistemology, and a background in quantum and statistical mechanics. He holds two Master degrees (University of Granada, 2004; ENS-Lyon, 2006) and a PhD (Autonomous University of Madrid, 2011, supervised by Professor Germán Sierra), whose thesis was entitled "Exactly solvable models in low-dimensional many-body physics". He has worked as a post-doctoral researcher in several Italian institutions: CNR-IPCF; Physics Department, Sapienza University; INFN-Parma; Italian Institute of Technology. In his early research career, Ibáñez has investigated several topics in statistical physics and information theory. More recently, he has developed novel applied research lines regarding, among other subjects: the mechanisms of information transmission in biological neural networks; the human perception of facial images. He has published in high-ranking journals as Physical Review Letters; Physical Review A,B,E; Nature Scientific Reports; Journal of Statistical Mechanics. Miguel has officially supervised 2 PhD and 7 MsC theses. He has held four PhD courses in different European athenaea and, at Sapienza University in Rome, two regular courses as well as several seminars in the graduation degree teaching programme. Moved by a deep interest in cognition, science of mind and philosophy of science, Miguel has organised and participated in numerous seminars, meetings and lessons concerned with these topics, of both academic and divulgative character.
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- External Member Designated by the Academic Senate )
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- Member of the Disciplinary Committee
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- Member of the Advisory Committee
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- Member of the Disciplinary Committee
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- President
- Tenured Professor at the IMT School )
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- Associate Professor at the IMT School of Advanced Studies
- Director of PhD Track in
Tiziano Squartini is Associate Professor at the IMT School of Advanced Studies in Lucca, within the NETWORKS Research Unit. He holds a Master Degree in Physics (2008) and a PhD Degree in Physics (2011) from the University of Siena (thesis title: "Information-theoretic approach to the analysis of complex networks"). During the biennium 2012-2013 he was post-doctoral Researcher at the Lorentz-Institute for Theoretical Physics (LION - University of Leiden, NL) under the supervision of Diego Garlaschelli. From January 2014 to October 2015 he was post-doctoral Researcher at the Institute for Complex Systems UOS Sapienza in Rome, under the supervision of Luciano Pietronero. From November 2015 to November 2018 he was Assistant Professor (RTD-A) at the IMT School for Advanced Studies in Lucca; from December 2018 to December 2021 he was a Tenure Track researcher (RTD-B) within the same institute. He is the "Complex Systems and Networks" Track Director at IMT, where he teaches the courses "Introduction to Network Science", "Network Reconstruction" and the second module of "Maximum-Entropy Models of Complex Systems". He is PhD Board Member of the National Doctorate in Artificial Intelligence and visiting fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS - University of Amsterdam, NL). He currently collaborates with the Supervisory Policy Division of the Dutch National Bank, Bank of England and Bank of Mexico. He is author of around 60 publications in peer-reviewed international journals (including major ones like Nature Reviews Physics, Physics Reports, Physical Review Letters), peer-reviewed book chapters and of two co-authored monographs. His research interests lie at the intersection between statistical physics and graph theory, both on the theoretical and the applied side: some of the research topics pursued by him concern network reconstruction, systemic risk estimation in financial networks, (mis)information spreading on social networks and functional brain networks analysis.
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- Njougouo Is Assistant Professor at the IMT School of Advanced Studies in Lucca, Within the NETWORKS Research Unit
Thi erry-Sainclair Njougouo is Assistant Professor at the IMT School of Advanced Studies in Lucca, within the NETWORKS Research Unit.
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- Assistant Professor
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- External Member Designated by the Academic Senate )
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- Assistant Professor
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Tommaso Gili is an experimental physicist with a strong background in statistical physics. Since the beginning of his PhD (2003) he has been investigating a wide range of systems from materials to biological systems. He has a long experience in the field of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance. In 2010 Tommaso was awarded a Marie Curie Fellowship to join the Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Center and work on multimodal neuroimaging investigation of mild sedation in humans. Tommaso Gili's research focuses on the development of quantitative network based methods to extract information from neuroimaging data (FMRI, EEG-FMRI, MRS, HARDI), in order to quantify brain function and structure in terms of neuronal, metabolic and vascular activity and structural organization. Dr Gili is co-author of more than 30 peer-reviewed papers (H-index=14, Citations=680) and received funds as Main App. or Co-App. for approximately Euro 1.000.000. Funding bodies included the Lazio Government, the European Union (Marie Curie Action IEF), Ministry for University and Research, Cardiff University.