SCUOLA IMT ALTI STUDI LUCCA - Key Persons
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- Assistant Professor
- Assistant Professor at the IMT School of Advanced Studies
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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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- Direttore Dell'Osservatorio Imprese Estere Confindustria
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- External Member Designated by the Academic Senate )
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- Mattarella - Professore Ordinario Di Diritto Amministrativo, Dipartimento Di Giurisprudenza Della Luiss "Guido Carli"
Davide Dal Sasso is Assistant Professor (RTD-A) of Aesthetics. He has two master's degrees, in Philosophy and Art History, and he obtained his PhD in Philosophy from the University of Torino. He is a member of Labont-Center for Ontology, SIE (Società Italiana d'Estetica), and NSAE (Nordic Society for Aesthetics).
His research focuses on three main subjects: the relationship between philosophy and contemporary arts, the essence of artistic practices, the nature of the catalogue and its relationship with the archive. The first topic is addressed by examining certain outcomes of contemporary arts in the light of some of the traditional themes of Aesthetics: beauty, experience, sensitivity; of the roles of representation and expression; of the relationship between form and structure. The study concerning artistic practices is developed by investigating the link between forms and processes and the roles that creativity, technology, and rules for artistic creation have. The investigation of the catalogue aims to show that it would be a key element for human organization and the condition of possibility for the archive. Currently, he is working on the relationship between the archive, cultural heritage, and visual culture.
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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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- Assistant Professor of Administrative Law at IMT School
- Member of IRPA
Anna Pirri Valentini is Assistant Professor of Administrative Law at IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca where she teaches Global Law. From 2019 to 2023 she taught Art Market Legislation at NABA-Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti in Milan; and from 2021 to 2024 she taught Tourism, Heritage and Sustainable Economic Development Policies and Culture, Policy and Society at Luiss Guido Carli University in Rome.
Anna graduated in Law cum laude in 2015 at the University of Rome La Sapienza, and she obtained a Ph.D. in Analysis and Management of Cultural Heritage at IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca in 2020. She has been visiting research scholar at the Institut des Sciences Sociales du Politique -École normale supérieure Paris Saclay- (Paris) and at the LSE- London School of Economics and Political Science (London).
From 2022 Dr. Pirri Valentini is collaborating as a consultant on international cultural projects with the Fondazione Scuola Beni e Attività Culturali.
Her main areas of interest include cultural heritage legislation and art law, in a comparative perspective. More specifically, she focused her research on the legal protection of contemporary art; artists' contracts and archives; art export controls; and management and regulation of cultural institutions. She published articles on cultural heritage legislation and art law in Italian and international journals (Rivista Trimestrale di Diritto Pubblico; Giornale di Diritto Amministrativo; AEDON; International Journal of Constitutional Law; Land), and in collective books. Her research has been presented in national and international conferences (Italy, France, England, Hong Kong, Chile, Poland, United States). In 2023 she published the monography titled "Il controllo sulla circolazione internazionale delle opere d'arte" within the book series Saggi di Diritto Amministrativo edited by Giuffré Editore.
She collaborates with international research projects on cultural heritage legislation, such as the MEMOLOI project (Programme de recherche sur la mémoire des grandes lois patrimoniales) and the ELGAR Research Handbook on Art, Culture and Heritage (Université de Genève, University of Kent, and University of Leicester). She is co-founder of the research network Law and Cultural Heritage across the Atlantic which seeks to promote research, opportunities for discussion and education on the comparison of art and cultural heritage regulation in Italy and the United States.
Dr. Pirri Valentini is a member of IRPA (Istituto di Ricerca sulla Pubblica Amministrazione); Deputy Secretary General of the International Society of Public Law (ICON-S); and Secretary General of ICON-S Italia (the Italian chapter of ICON-S).
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- External Member Designated by the Academic Senate )
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- Technical - Administrative
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- Presidente Della Fondazione Compagnia Di San Paolo
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- Assistant Professor at the IMT School )
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- Associated Professor, IMT School )
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- Head of Digital Infrastructure Division, Project Directorate of European Investment Bank
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- Head of Office
- Head of Office ( Ad Interim )
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- Tenured Professor at the IMT School )
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- Assistant Professor
- Assistant Professor at the IMT School of Advanced Studies
- NETWORKS
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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- Tenured Professor at the IMT School )
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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
- Membro
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- Member of the Disciplinary Committee
Rossana Mastrandrea is a Mathematician from Bari (meh!), currently an assistant professor at IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca (NETWORKS research unit). At IMT School she works on the human functional and structural brain network, with particular attention to its modular organization. She got a PhD in Economics at Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa working on the International Trade Network as a complex system under the supervision of Prof. Giorgio Fagiolo. She was a visiting fellow at Lorenz Institute of Theoretical Physics (Leiden, the Netherlands) in the group of Prof. Garlaschelli and part of the INET project "Empirical and theoretical analysis of macroeconomics networks" for two years at Sant'Anna School. From march 2014 to october 2015 she joined the team of Dr. Alain Barrat at the "Centre de Physique Théorique" in Marseille as a post-doc researcher for the project on disease transmission in collaboration with the Hôpital Nord in Marseille. She studied the epidemic spreading on networks focusing on: different social groups and social ties; methods of data detection; problems of data sampling. Her main research interests are: social dynamics, complex networks, statistical physics, null models, econophysics, epidemics, brain.
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- External Member Designated by the Academic Senate )
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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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- 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.