2022 - present: Associate Professor (PA) at Mathematics Department, Sapienza University of Rome (Italy)
2022: National Scientific Qualification in Mathematical Physics (01/A4) as Full Professor
2019: National Scientific Qualification in Mathematical Physics (01/A4) as Associate Professor
2019 - 2022: Assistant Professor (RTD-B) at Mathematics Department, Sapienza University of Rome (Italy)
2018: National Scientific Qualification in Theoretical Physics of Fundamental Interactions (02/A2) as Associate Professor
2015 - 2019: Research Fellow (RTD-A) at Mathematics Department, Sapienza University of Rome (Italy)
2016: Qualification as Researcher in Applied Mathematics at CNR
2014: Research guest at Mathematics Department, University of São Paulo (Brazil)
2014: Research fellowship at Physics Department, Sapienza University of Rome (Italy)
2013: National Scientific Qualification in Mathematical Physics (01/A4) as Associate Professor
2013: National Scientific Qualification in Theoretical Physics of Matter (02/B2) as Associate Professor
2010 - 2013: Researcher and local Coordinator for the project “Dynamics and statistical mechanics of lymphocyte networks below the percolation threshold”, within the MIUR program FIRB (Futuro In Ricerca) prot. RBFR08EKEV [National Coordinator A. Barra (Sapienza University of Rome)], at Physics Department, University of Parma (Italy)
2010: Post-doc fellowship from “Fondazione Angelo della Riccia” , at Laboratoire de Physique Théorique de la Matière Condensée, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris (France)
2009 – 2010: Post-doc position (Assegno di Ricerca), at Physics Department, University of Parma (Italy)
2008: Post-doc fellowship from “Fondazione Angelo della Riccia” , at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg (Germany)
2007: Post-Doc fellowship, at Physics Department, University of Parma (Italy)
2007: Ph.D. diploma in Physics at Department of Physics, University of Parma (Italy)
2004: Master Degree in Physics at Department of Physics, University of Parma (Italy)
Editorial Activity
Society Membership
Acknowledgements
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2022: National Scientific Qualification in Mathematical Physics (01/A4) as Full Professor
2019: National Scientific Qualification in Mathematical Physics (01/A4) as Associate Professor
2019 - 2022: Assistant Professor (RTD-B) at Mathematics Department, Sapienza University of Rome (Italy)
2018: National Scientific Qualification in Theoretical Physics of Fundamental Interactions (02/A2) as Associate Professor
2015 - 2019: Research Fellow (RTD-A) at Mathematics Department, Sapienza University of Rome (Italy)
2016: Qualification as Researcher in Applied Mathematics at CNR
2014: Research guest at Mathematics Department, University of São Paulo (Brazil)
2014: Research fellowship at Physics Department, Sapienza University of Rome (Italy)
2013: National Scientific Qualification in Mathematical Physics (01/A4) as Associate Professor
2013: National Scientific Qualification in Theoretical Physics of Matter (02/B2) as Associate Professor
2010 - 2013: Researcher and local Coordinator for the project “Dynamics and statistical mechanics of lymphocyte networks below the percolation threshold”, within the MIUR program FIRB (Futuro In Ricerca) prot. RBFR08EKEV [National Coordinator A. Barra (Sapienza University of Rome)], at Physics Department, University of Parma (Italy)
2010: Post-doc fellowship from “Fondazione Angelo della Riccia” , at Laboratoire de Physique Théorique de la Matière Condensée, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris (France)
2009 – 2010: Post-doc position (Assegno di Ricerca), at Physics Department, University of Parma (Italy)
2008: Post-doc fellowship from “Fondazione Angelo della Riccia” , at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg (Germany)
2007: Post-Doc fellowship, at Physics Department, University of Parma (Italy)
2007: Ph.D. diploma in Physics at Department of Physics, University of Parma (Italy)
2004: Master Degree in Physics at Department of Physics, University of Parma (Italy)
Editorial Activity
- January 2026: Joining the Editorial Board of the Journal of Statistical Physics as Editor in Chief
- July 2022: Joining the Editorial Board of Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications as Main Editor for the section "Deep learning, genetic algorithms and other methods of AI"
- 2019-2023: Joining the Editorial Board of Physical Review Letters as Divisional Associate Editor
- 2019: Invited Guest Editor (with A. Barra, M.A. Javarone, A. Pizzoferrato) for the Frontiers in Physics special issue "Social spreading: opinions, behaviours and strategies"
- 2018: Invited Guest Editor (with A. Barra, P. Sollich, L. Zdeborová) for the Journal of Physics A special issue "Machine Learning and Statistical Physics: Theory, Inspiration, Application"
- 2018-2022: Joining the Editorial Board of Frontiers in Physics.
- 2017-2022: Member of the Advisory Panel of Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical.
- 2018 - 2019: Member of the Editorial Board of Heliyon.
Society Membership
- Since November 2025: ELLIS member
- Since November 2025: member of CNR-Nanotec
- Since January 2025: member of INFN (Istituto Nazionale Fisica Nucleare)
- Since January 2013: GNFM-INdAM (Gruppo Nazionale Fisica Matematica) member
- 2019-2020: EWM (European Women in Mathematics) member
- 2019-2020: UMI (Unione Matematica Italiana) member
Acknowledgements
- March 2020: Awarded as APS Outstanding Referee
- March 2016: Outstanding Reviewers Award from the Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical
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Some past events...
- April 2024: Speaker at Festival della Scienza, Macro, Roma
- May 2024: Colloquium on A statistical-mechanics approach to machine learning, at "Spring School 'Bruno Touschek' in Nuclear, Subnuclear and Astroparticle Physics", Frascati
- May 2024: Invited seminar at the workshop From Machine-Learning Theory to Driven Complex Systems and back, held at CECAM-HQ-EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
- August 2024: Seminar at the Riken Center, Tokyo
- September 2024: Invited talk at the ROccella Conference on INference and AI – ROC(K)IN' AI 2024, Roccella Jonica
- September 2024: Invited talk at the First Conference of the Italian Network for Computational Neuroscience, held at ISS, Roma
- October 2024: I° Convegno delle Facoltà Sapienza: Intelligenza Artificial e Libero Arbitrio, Aula Magna del Rettorato, Roma
- November 2024: Invited speaker at the workshop Mathematical aspects in non equilibrium systems: from micro to macro, Center for Scientific Culture Ettore Majorana, Erice
- December 2024: Invited speaker at the workshop Intelligenza Artificiale e Demenze: nuova opportunità o una sfida impari?, Facoltà di Medicina e Chirurgia, Università Tor Vergata, Roma
- September 2025: Co-organizing the summer school Mathematical methods for high-dimensional data, Roma
- June 2025: Lecturer at the Hausdorff School for Advanced Studies in Mathematics
- June 2025: Lecturer at the Beg Rhou Summer School
- September 2025: Invited speaker at the 38th Marian Smoluchowski Symposium on Statistical Physics, Krakow
- October 2025: Invited speaker at the Hard Science for AI, Accademia delle Scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna
- October 2025: Invited speaker at the 2025 Chalmers AI Research Center Workshop for Structured Learning, Gothenburg
- November 2025: Invited speaker at the Volterra Seminars, Sapienza
- December 2025: Co-organizing the workshop A Journey from Spin Glasses to Neural Networks, Roma
- December 2025: Invited seminar for the Disordered System Group at King's College London
- January 2026: Co-organizing the Incontro Scientifico UMI, Roma