Curriculum Vitæ
Education
- Ph.D. in Mathematics, 1994
- International School for Advanced Studies, Trieste, Italy
- Master in Mathematical Physics, 1991
- International School for Advanced Studies, Trieste, Italy
- Laurea in Physics, 1989
- Università di Roma "La Sapienza", Roma, Italy
Positions
- from 2010
- Full Professor, Università di Bologna
- 2004-2010
- Associate Professor, Università di Bologna (May 2010: "Idoneità"
for Full Professorship)
- 2000-2004
- Ricercatore, Università di Bologna (July 2002: "Idoneità" for Associate Professorship)
- 1998-2000
- Visiting Research Assistant Professor, University of California, Davis.
- 1996-1998
- Instructor, Princeton University
- 1995-1996
- NATO-CNR Advanced Fellow, University of Virginia
- before 1995
- Visiting Scientist, Technische Universität Berlin
- Visiting Professor at:
- Institut Henri Poincare, Paris, France, January-April
2015
- NYU & ECNU, Shanghai, Cina, August-December 2014
- UCD, Dublin, Ireland, July-August 2011
- Schroedinger Institute, Dublin, Ireland, July 2010
- Weierstrass Institute, Berlin, Germany, July-August 2009
- Weierstrass Institute, Berlin, Germany, June-July 2008
- Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, July-August 2007
Awards and Honors
Director of the Bologna Unit of the Istituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica.
Elected Member of the Accademia delle Scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna, 2016.
Culture Award, Mercatello sul Metauro, August 2008
- Plenary Speaker at the 100TH
STATISTICAL MECHANICS CONFERENCE,
"Looking Back, looking forward: a celebration of Statistical Mechanics" - December 2008
Memberships and Boards
Member of the Scientific Committee of the Osservatorio
Permanente sull’Adozione e l’Integrazione della
Intelligenza Artificiale, Aspen Institute Italia. from
2022
Member of the Group on "Artificial Intelligence, Robotics
and Cybersecurity" of the Italian Space Agency, from 2022.
Director of the Bologna Unit of the Istituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica 2015-2023.
Scientific Committee of the Collegio Superiore (University of Bologna) 2014-2020.
Scientific Committee of the Istituto Cattaneo 2011-2019
Editor in Chief of the Annales - Proceedings of the Academy of Sciences of Bologna from 2023
Editorial Board of Annali dell'Università di Ferrara - Scienze Matematiche from 2023
Editorial Board of Advances in Mathematical Physics 2009-2022
Editorial Board of Journal of Mathematical Physics 2014-2016
Editorial Board of Journal of Statistical Physics 2007-2012
Editorial Board of Quality and Quantity from 2010-2023
National Coordinator of the PRIN Project: Boltzmann Machines beyond the independent identically distributed Paradigm: a Mathematical Physics Approach (2022-2025).
Member of the Project Humane-AI 2021-2024
Local Coordinator of the PRIN Project: Statistical Mechanics and Complexity. (2016-2019).
Member of the ASN-01/A1 Committee, Commissione di Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale per il settore Logica Matematica e Matematiche Complementari, (2016-2018).
Local Coordinator of the PRIN Project: Statistical Mechanics of Disordered and Complex Systems. (2013-2016).
Member of the FIRB Project: Stochastic Processes and Interacting Particle Systems. (2012-2015).
Member of the Project: Competition and Cooperation in Biological and Social Systems (from 2010-2015).
Member of the Steering Committee of the project: Random Geometry of Large Interacting Systems and Statistical Physics (2010-2015)
Head of the project: Mathematical Methods in Social and Economical Sciences, (2007-2012)
Progetti Strategici Università di Bologna
Co-responsible with Stefano Ghirlanda of the EU Grant (Italian Node), fixth framework program, 2007-2009: Cultaptation