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Andrea Gabrielli

Personal

• Full Name: Andrea Gabrielli
• Sex: male
• Citizenship: Italian
• Place of Birth: Rome, Italy
• Date of Birth: 1970, February the $18^{th}$
• Status: married with 2 children
• Residence:
  • Via Alessandro Scarlatti, 4
    00198 - Rome, Italy
  • tel +39-06-8546444
• Work Address:
  • Istituto dei Sistemi Complessi - CNR,
    Via dei Taurini 19, 00185 - Rome (Italy), and
  • Istituto dei Sistemi Complessi - CNR, UOS "Sapienza", Dipartimento di Fisica, Università "Sapienza";
    Piazzale Aldo Moro 2; 00185 - Rome (Italy)
  • tel +39-06-49937511
  • fax +39-06-49937440
• E-mail Address: Andrea.Gabrielli@roma1.infn.it
• WWW page: http://pil.phys.uniroma1.it/~andrea

Brief Summary of activities

• Author of: one book for Springer Verlag, more than 70 articles on referred international journals, and many proceedings of international conferences.
• Editor of the international journal "Scientific Report of Nature"
• Referee of the following international journals of Physics:
  • Physical Review Letters
  • Physical Review E
  • Physical Review B
  • Europhysics Letters
  • Journal of Physics A: Math. and Theor.
  • European Journal of Physics B
  • Journal od Statistical Mechanics: Theor. ad Exp.

Education and Employments

• 16/02/2009 - now
  Permanent research position at the "Istituto dei Sistemi Complessi", CNR (Rome, Italy).
  

• 01/07/2004 - 15/02/2009
  Tenure track research position at the Statistical Mechanics and Complexity Center - INFM
  c/o Physics Departement of the University of Rome "La Sapienza" (Rome, Italy), and
  Istituto dei Sistemi Complessi - CNR (Rome, Italy).
  

• 01/11/2002 - 30/06/2004
  Research assistant at the ``E. Fermi'' Center for Research and Studies (Rome, Italy)
  c/o the Phisycs Departement of the University of Rome "La Sapienza" (Italy)

• 1/12/2000 - 31/10/2002
  Research assistant (INFM contract) at the Physics Departement of the University of Rome "La Sapienza" (Italy)

• 1/10/1999 - 30/11/2000:
  Post-Doc position (TMR programme of the EEC, contract number: FMRXCT980183) at the Laboratoire de Phyisque de la Matière Condensée, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau (France).
  Supervisor: Prof. B. Sapoval

• 1/11/1998 - 30/09/1999:
  Post-Doc position (CIES scholarship) at the Laboratoire de Phyisque de la Matière Condensée, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau (France).
  Supervisor: Prof. B. Sapoval

• 1996 - 1998:
  Ph.D. in Physics at the Physics Departement of the University of Rome ``Tor Vergata'' and the Physics Departement of the University of Rome ``La Sapienza''
  Supervisors: Prof. L. Pietronero and Prof. R. Petronzio
  Thesis title: ``Memory Effects in Growth Dynamics with Quenched Disorder''

• 25/05/1995:
  Degree in Physics, final marks 110/110 cum laude at the the Physics Departement of the University of Rome ``La Sapienza''
  Supervisor: Prof. L. Pietronero
  Thesis title: ``Quenched Dynamics and Stochastic Dynamics: the Case of Invasion Percolation''

• 1989:
  Scientific high school diploma, final marks 60/60, at Liceo Scientifico ``G. Castelnuovo'', Rome (Italy)

Languages:

a ITALIAN (MOTHER LANGUAGE);
b ENGLISH (fluent);
c FRENCH (fluent).

Informatics:

a OPERATIVE SYSTEM MS-DOS;
b OPERATIVE SYSTEM LINUX;
c LANGUAGE FORTRAN;
d LANGUAGE LATEX.
e LANGUAGE HTML.

Fields of Activity:

a THEORY OF STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;
b APPLICATIONS OF STATISTICAL PHYSICS TO COSMOLOGY AND LARGE SCALE PROPERTIES OF MASS DISTRIBUTION IN THE UNIVERSE;
c ETCHING OF RANDOM SOLIDS AND COASTAL DYNAMICAL FORMATION THROUGH EROSION.
d THEORY OF SELF-ORGANISED CRITICALITY;
e PHYSICS OF FRACTURES;
f APPLICATIONS OF STOCHASTIC PROCESSES TO NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE EXPERIMENTS;
g CONTACT PROCESSES AND ABSORBING STATES;
h SURFACE GROWTHS PHENOMENA;
i MICROSCOPIC STATISTICAL MODELS FOR MAGNETIC HYSTERESIS.

Publications

Books:

A. Gabrielli, F. Sylos Labini, M. Joyce, and L. Pietronero,

"STATISTICAL PHYSICS FOR COSMIC STRUCTURES",

Springer Verlag Inc. (New York-Berlin, 2004).

International Journal Papers:

1) A. Gabrielli, M. Marsili, R. Cafiero and L. Pietronero,

"Comment on the Run Time Statistics in Models of Growth in Disordered Media",

Jour. of Stat. Phys, 84, 889 (1996).

2) R. Cafiero, A. Gabrielli, M. Marsili and L. Pietronero,

"Mapping of a deterministic dynamics with quenched variables into a stochastic problem

with cognitive memory",

Fractals, 3, 471-481 (1996).

3) R. Cafiero, A. Gabrielli, M. Marsili and L. Pietronero,

"Theory of extremal dynamics with quenched disorder: Invasion Percolation and related models",

Phys. Rev. E, 54, 1406 (1996).

4) A. Gabrielli, R. Cafiero, M. Marsili and L. Pietronero,

"Theory of self-organized criticality for problems with extremal dynamics"

Europhys. Lett., 38, 491 (1997).

5) R. Cafiero, A. Gabrielli and M. Marsili,

"Irrelevance of spatial correlations in models with extremal dynamics",

Phys. Rev. E, 55, 7745 (1997).

6) R. Cafiero, A. Gabrielli, M. Marsili, L. Pietronero and L. Torosantucci,

"Laplacian Fractal Growth in Media with Quenched Disorder",

Phys. Rev. Lett., 79, 1503 (1997).

7) F. Sylos Labini, A. Gabrielli, M. Montuori and L. Pietronero

"Finite size effects on the galaxy number counts: Evidence for fractal behavior up to the deepest scale",

Physica A, 226, 195 (1996).

8) M. Montuori, F. Sylos Labini, A. Gabrielli, A. Amici and L. Pietronero,

"Galaxy number counts and fractal correlation",

Europhys. Lett., 39 (1), 103 (1997).

9) R. Cafiero, G. Caldarelli and A. Gabrielli,

"Surface effects in Invasion Percolation",

Phys. Rev. E, 56, R1291 (1997).

10) G. Caldarelli, R. Cafiero and A. Gabrielli,

"Dynamics of Fractures in Quenched Disordered Media"

Phys. Rev. E, 57, 3878 (1998).

11) M. A. Munoz, A. Gabrielli, H. Inaoka and L. Pietronero,

"Hierarchical Model of Slow Constrained Dynamics",

Phys. Rev. E, 57, 4354 (1998).

12) A. Gabrielli, R. Cafiero and G. Caldarelli,

"Theory of Boundary Effects in Invasion Percolation"

Journal of Physics A, 31, 7429 (1998).

13) R. Cafiero, A. Gabrielli and M. A. Munoz,

"Disordered one-dimensional contact process"

Phys. Rev. E, 57, 5060 (1998).

14) C. Castellano, A. Gabrielli, M. Marsili, M. A. Munoz and L. Pietronero,

"High dimensional behavior of the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang growth dynamics"

Phys. Rev. E, 58, R5209 (1998).

15) R. Cafiero, L. Pietronero, A. Gabrielli and M. Marsili,

"Theory of Extremal Dynamics with Quenched Disorder:

Self-Organization, Avalanche Dynamics and Critical Exponents"

Int. J. of Mod. Phys. B, 12, 1263 (1998).

16) A. Gabrielli, M. A. Munoz, and L. Pietronero

"A simple model of slow relaxation dynamics"

J. Phys. IV France, 8, Pr6-105 (1998).

17) A. Gabrielli, F. Sylos Labini and S. Pellegrini,

"Gravitational force distribution in fractal structures"

Europhys. Lett., 46, 127 (1999).

18) A. Gabrielli, R. Cafiero and G. Caldarelli,

"Statistical properties of fractures in a model of damaged material"

Europhys. Lett., 45, 13-19 (1999).

19) R. Cafiero, A. Gabrielli, M. Marsili, M. A. Munoz and L. Pietronero,

"Generalized Dielectric Breakdown Model"

Phys. Rev. B, 60, 786 (1999).

20) G. Bianconi, M. A. Munoz, A. Gabrielli and L. Pietronero,

"Renormalization-group study of one-dimensional systems with roughening transitions"

Phys. Rev. E, 60, 3719 (1999).

21) M. A. Muņoz, G. Bianconi, C. Castellano, A. Gabrielli, M. Marsili, L. Pietronero

"Non perturbative renormalization group approach to surface growth"

Comp. Phys. Comm., 358, 121-122 (1999) .

22) A. Gabrielli, F. Sylos Labini and R. Durrer,

"Biasing in Gaussian random fields and galaxy correlations" ,

Astrophys. J. Lett., 531, L1-L4 (2000).

23) A. Gabrielli, G. Caldarelli and L. Pietronero,

"Invasion Percolation at finite temperature and the Nature of SOC in Real Systems",

Phys. Rev. E, 62, 7638 (2000).

24) A. Gabrielli, A. Baldassarri and B. Sapoval

"Surface Hardening and Self-Organized Fractality Through Etching of Random Solids",

Phys. Rev. E, 62, 3103 (2000).

25) R. Cafiero, G. Caldarelli and A. Gabrielli,

"Damage and Cracking in Thin Mud Layers",

Jour. of Phys. A.: Math. Gen., 45, 8013 (2000).

26) M. Felici, G. Caldarelli, A. Gabrielli, and L. Pietronero

"Perturbative approach to the Bak-Sneppen model",

Phys. Rev. Lett., 86, 1896 (2001).

27) A. Gabrielli, and F. Sylos Labini

"Fluctuations in galaxy counts: a new test for homogeneity versus fractality"

Europhys. Lett., 54-3, 286 (2001).

28) A. Gabrielli, M. A. Munoz, and B. Sapoval

``Field theory of self-organized fractal etching''

Phys. Rev. E, 64, 016108 (2001).

29) S. Succi, A. Gabrielli, G. Smith, E. Kaxiras

``Catalitic efficency of reactive microflows with microbarriers: a Lattice-Boltzmann study''

Europ. Phys. Jour. App. Phys., 16(1), 71 (2001).

30) G. Caldarelli, R. Frondoni, A. Gabrielli, M. Montuori, R. Retzlaff, C. Ricotta

``Percolation in real Wildfires"

Europhys. Lett., 56(4), 510 (2001).

See also Nature.

31) F. Sylos Labini and A. Gabrielli,

``Scaling and fluctuations in galaxy distribution: two tests to probe large scale structures"

ASP Conf. Proc., CS-225, 90 (2001).

32) . Gabrielli, A. Baldassarri, and B. Sapoval,

``Etching of random solids: hardening dynamics and self-organized fractality",

AIP Conf. Proc., 574, 89 (2001).

33) A. Gabrielli, S. Succi, E. Kaxiras

``A lattice Boltzmann study of reactive microflows"

Comp. Phys. Comm., 147, n.1-2, 516 (2002).

34) G. Caldarelli, M. Felici, A. Gabrielli, and L. Pietronero

``Probabilistic approach to the Bak-Sneppen model"

Phys. Rev. E, 65, 046101 (2002).

35) A. Gabrielli, M. Joyce, and F. Sylos Labini

``The Glass-like Universe: Real-space correlation properties of standard cosmological models"

Phys. Rev. D, 65, 083523 (2002).

36) F. Colaiori, A. Gabrielli, and S. Zapperi

``Rayleigh loops in the random-field Ising model on the Bethe lattice"

Phys. Rev. B, 65, 224404 (2002).

37) A. Baldassarri, A. Gabrielli and B. Sapoval

``Chemical fracture and distribution of extreme values"

Europhys. Lett., 59(2), 232 (2002).

38) G. Caldarelli, R. Frondoni, A. Gabrielli, M. Montuori, R. Retzlaff, C. Ricotta

Reply to Comment to ``Percolation in wildfires''

Europhys. Lett., 59, 157 (2002).

39) L. Pietronero, A. Gabrielli, and F. Sylos Labini

``Statistical Physics for Cosmic Structures''

Physica A, 306, 395 (2002).

40) A. Gabrielli, B. Jancovici, M. Joyce, J. L. Lebowitz, L. Pietronero, and F. Sylos Labini

``Generation of primordial cosmological perturbations from statistical mechanical models"

Phys. Rev. D, 67, 043506 (2003).

41) R. Durrer, A. Gabrielli, M. Joyce, F. Sylos Labini

``Bias and the power spectrum beyond the turn-over"

Astrphysical Jour. Lett., 585, L1-L4 (2003).

42) A. Gabrielli, M. Joyce, and F. Sylos Labini,

``Real space statistical properties of standard cosmological models",

AIP Conf. Proc., 661, 188 (2003).

43) A. Gabrielli, M. Joyce, B. Marcos, and P. Viot

``Causality constraints of fluctuations in cosmology: a study with exactly solvable one dimensional models"

Europhys. Lett., 66, 1 (2004).

44) F. Sylos Labini, A. Gabrielli

``Complexity in cosmic structures"

Physica A, 338/1-2, 44 (2004).

45) A. Gabrielli, A. P. Masucci, and F. Sylos Labini,

``Gravitational force in weakly correlated particle spatial distributions"

Phys. Rev. E, 69, 031110 (2004).

46) B. Sapoval, A. Baldassarri, and A. Gabrielli,

``Self-stabilised fractality of sea-coasts through damped erosion''

Phys. Rev. Lett., 93, 098501 (2004).

See also

(a) Nature;

(b) AIP - Physics news Update;

(c) CERN Courier;

(d) APS News (see page 5).

47) A. Gabrielli and S. Torquato,

``Voronoi and Voids Statistics for Super-homogeneous Point Processes''

Phys. Rev. E, 70, 041105 (2004).

48) A. Gabrielli,

``Point processes and stochastic displacement fields''

Phys. Rev. E., 70, 066131 (2004).

49) A. Gabrielli, A. Baldassarri, and B. Sapoval,

``Chemical etching of a disordered solid: from experiments to field theory''

Physica A, 357, 122 (2005).

50) M. Joyce, B. Marcos, A. Gabrielli, T. Baertschiger, and F. Sylos Labini,

``Gravitational evolution of a perturbed lattice and its fluid limit''

Phys. Rev. Lett., 95, 011304 (2005).

51) M. Joyce, F. Sylos Labini, A. Gabrielli, M. Montuori, L. Pietronero

``Basic properties of galaxy clustering in the light of recent results from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey''

Astron. & Astroph., 443, 11 (2005).

52) A. Gabrielli,

``Scale invariant forces in one-dimensional shuffled lattices''

Phys. Rev. E, 72, 066113 (2005).

53) B. Marcos, T. Baertschiger, M. Joyce, A. Gabrielli, F. Sylos Labini,

``Linear perturbative theory of the discrete cosmological N-body problem''

Phys. Rev. D, 73, 103507 (2006).

54) A. Gabrielli, T. Baertschiger, M. Joyce, B. Marcos, F. Sylos Labini,

``Force distribution in a randomly perturbed lattice of identical particles with 1/r^2 pair interaction''

Phys. Rev. E, 74, 021110 (2006).

55) T. Baertschiger, M. Joyce, A. Gabrielli, F. Sylos Labini,

`` Gravitational dynamics of an infinite shuffled lattice of particles"

Phys. Rev. E, 75, 021113 (2007).

56) T. Baertschiger, M. Joyce, A. Gabrielli, F. Sylos Labini,

``Gravitational dynamics of an infinite shuffled lattice: particle coarse-grainings, non-linear clustering and the continuum limit''

Phys. Rev. E, 76, 011116 (2007).

57) A. Gabrielli and G. Caldarelli,

``Invasion Percolation and Critical transient in the Barabasi model of human dynamics''

Phys. Rev. Lett., 98, 208701 (2007).

58) A. Gabrielli and F. Cecconi,

``Diffusion, super-diffusion and coalescence from single step''

J. Stat. Mech., P10007 (2007).

59) A. Gabrielli and M. Joyce,

``Two-point correlation properties of stochastic splitting processes''

Phys. Rev. E, 77, 031139 (2008).

60) A. Gabrielli, M. Joyce, and S. Torquato

``Tilings of space and superhomogeneous point processes''

Phys. Rev. E, 77, 031125 (2008).

61) A. Gabrielli, F. Cecconi

``Clustering and coalescence from multiplicative noise: the Kraichnan ensemble''

J. of Phys. A:Math. and Theor., 41, 235003 (2008).

62) A. Gabrielli, G. Caldarelli

``Invasion percolation and the time scaling behavior of a queuing model of human dynamics''

J. Stat. Mech., P02046 (2009).

63) A. Gabrielli, M. Joyce, F. Sicard

``One dimensional gravity in infinite point distributions''

Phys. Rev. E, 80, 041108 (2009).

64) A. Gabrielli, G. Caldarelli

``Invasion Percolation on a tree and queuing models''

Phys. Rev. E, 79, 041133 (2009).

65) V. Alfi, A. Gabrielli, L. Pietronero

``How people react to a deadline: time distribution of conference registrations and fee payments''

Cent. Europ. J. of Phys., 7, 483 (2009).

66) A. Gabrielli

``Shaping large Poisson Voronoi cells in two dimensions''

J. Stat. Mech., N07001 (2009).

67) A. Gabrielli, M. Joyce

``Gravitational force in an infinite one-dimensional Poisson distribution''

Phys. Rev. E, 81, 021102 (2010).

68) S.De Santis, A.Gabrielli, M.Bozzali , B.Maraviglia, E.Macaluso, S.Capuani

``Anisotropic Anomalous Diffusion assessment in human brain by scalar invariant indexes"

Submitted to Neural Images

Conference Proceedings:

1) R. Cafiero, A. Gabrielli, M. Marsili and L. Pietronero,

"Theory of extremal dynamics with quenched disorder:

self-organization, avalanche dynamics and critical exponents",

In Proc. of the third International Conference on Renormalization Group 1996 (RG96),

Dubna, Russia, 26-31 August 1996, Eds. D.V. Shirkov, D.I. Kazakov and V.B. Priezzhev (1997).

2) L. Pietronero, R. Cafiero and A. Gabrielli,

"Fractal growth with quenched disorder"

In Proc. of the XIV Sitges Conference ``Complex Behaviour of Glassy Systems",

Sitges-Barcelona, Spain, 10-14 June 1996.

Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Incorporated (1997).

3) Francesco Sylos Labini, Andrea Gabrielli,

"Correlation and clustering"

In Proc. of the NATO Advanced Study Institute ``Astrophysical Sources of High Energy

Particles & Radiation'', Erice (Italy), 11-21 November 2000.

Kluwer Academic Publishers (2001).

4) F. Sylos Labini, T. Baertschinger, A. Gabrielli, and M. Joyce,

"Initial conditions, discreteness and non-linear structure formation in cosmology",

In the Proc. of the International school "The early universe and the cosmic microwave

background: theory and observations" N. Sanchez and Y.N. Parijskij editors.

Kluwer Academic Press (Netherlands) 2003, pg.263-290.

Invited Talks and Seminars

• ``Quenched Dielectric Breakdown Model'',
  International meeting on Disordered Systems organized by ISI Institute, Villa Gualino, Turin (Italy), 7-9/ 4/ 1997.
• ``Fractal growths: general properties and theoretical tools",
  Departement for Theoretical Physics of the University of Geneva (Switzerland), 5/1998.
• ``Gravitational Force in a fractal distribution of masses'',
  Journée de Physique Statistique - ESPCI, Paris (France), 28/ 1/ 1999.
• ``Memory effects in growth dynamics with quenched disorder'',
  Lab. PMC, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau (France), 4/ 2/ 1999.
• ``Invasion Percolation with temperature'',
  INFM National Conference on Condensed Matter Physics, Catania (Italy), 13-18 /6/ 1999.
• ``Slow etching of disordered solids and percolation models",
  IV National Conference of Statistical Phyisics organized by the University of Parma, Parma (Italy), 23-25/06/1999.
• ``Effetti di mermoria indotti da disordine quenched in dinamiche di crescita stocastiche'',
  Istituto di Matematica Applcata e Calcolo Scientifico (IMACS) del CNR, Rome (Italy) 10/03/2000
• ``Etching of Random Solids: Hardening Dynamics and Self Organized Fractality",
  6th Granada Seminar on Computational Physics, Univeristy of Grenade, Grenade (Spain) 4-9/09/2000.
• ` ``Percolation in real wildfires",
  VI National Conference of Statistical Phyisics organized by the University of Parma, Parma (Italy) 29-31/5/2001.
• ``Slow corrosion of disordered solids: self-organized fractality, absorbing states and fractures",
  Physics Department of the University of Naples ``Federico II", Naples (Italy), 14/06/2001.
• ``Chemical corrosion of disorderd solids'',
  Cuba Satellite meeting ``Fractal Structures and Self-Organization'' to STATPHYS 21 (Cancun, Mexico), L'Habana (Cuba), 23-28/07/2001.
• ``Real space statistical properties of standard cosmological models",
  7th Granada Lectures ``Modelling of complex systems'', University of Grenade, Grnade (Spain), 2-7/09/2002.
• ``Biasing a gaussian field revisited: consequences on the correlation function and the power spectrum'',
  Workshop "Facts and fiction in cosmology" organized by the Theoretical Physics Department of the University of Geneva (Switzerland), Sils Maria (Switzerland), 16-23/3/2003.
• ``Stochastic displacement fields and correlated particle distributions'',
  ``N-body Simulation in Cosmology'' Conference, LPT of the University of Paris XI, Orsay (France), 19-20/12/2003.
• ``Chemical etching of a disordered solid: from experiments to field theory'',
  ``Physics of Irregular Systems" Conference in honour of Prof. B. Sapoval, Fortaleza (Brazil), 15-18/08/2004.
• ``Point processes and Stochastic Displacement Field'',
  Department of Mathematics, University of Rome 3, 19/05/2005.
• ``Gravitational evolution of a perturbed lattice and its fluid limit'',
  ``X National Conference of Statistical Phyisics and Complex Systems", organized by the University of Parma, Parma (Italy) 29/06/2005/-02/07/2005.
• ``Linear gravitational evolution of a perturbed lattice and its fluid limit'',
  ISI Foundation, Turin (Italy), 03/05/2006.
• ``Self-stabilised fractality of sea-coasts through damped erosion'',
  The XIII Workshop on Statistical Mechanics and non perturbative Field Theory (SM&FT), Bari (Italy), 20-22/09/2006.
• ``Condensed matter methods for the gravitational evolution of a perturbed lattice and its fluid limit",
  Laboratoire de Physique Theorique de la Matiere Condensee, Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie - Jussieu, Paris (France), 08/02/2007.
• ``Critical transient ine the Barabasi model of human dynamics ",
  StatPhys23 Satellite Conference ``Complex Networks: from Biology to Information Technology", Pula (Cagliari, Italia), 02-06/07/2007.
• ``A brief introduction to uniform stochastic point processes",
  International Workshop ``Uniform point processes: from glasses to cosmology", LPTHE, Universite' Paris VII (Jussieu), 19/03/2008 (Paris, France).
• ``Application of percolation and random walk theory to priority driven models of queueing theory",
  International Workshop ``Sociophysics: Status and Perspectives", ISI Foundation, 26-29/05/2008 (Torino, Italia).
• ``Clustering and coalescence from multiplicative noise: the Kraichnan ensemble",
  XIII CONVEGNO NAZIONALE DI FISICA STATISTICA E DEI SISTEMI COMPLESSI, Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita' di Parma, 23-25/06/2008 (Parma, Italia).
• ``Invasion percolation and the time scaling behavior of a queueing model of human dynamics. ''
  International Conference in Statistical Physics ``SigmaPhi2008'', 14-18/07/2008, Kolympari - Chania (Crete, Grece).
• ``Invasion percolation vs. Barabasi model pf human dynamics''
  Dipartimento di Fisica, Universit\`a di Cagliari, 23/09/2008, Cagliari (Italy).
• ``Priority driven human dynamics: percolation and random walk arguments for social communications"
  Conference ``Social Networks: Emerging Communities and Technologies in the WWW'', 6-7/11/2008, Pula - (Cagliari, Italy).
• ``Two-point correlation properties of stochastic cloud processes''
  100th Statistical Mechanics Conference, 13-18/12/2008, Rutgers University, New Jersey (USA)
• ``Invasion percolation on a tree and queueing models"
  International Workshop on Network Science - NetSci09, 1-3/7/2009, Venice (Italy).

Scientific visits and collaborations

• 29/3 - 7/5/2004: Visiting Research Staff Member in the Department of Chemistry of the Princeton University (NJ, USA)
  in the group of Prof. S. Torquato.


• 5/2006: Official invitation in the Department of Chemistry of the Princeton University (NJ, USA)
  in the group of Prof. S. Torquato.


• 1996 - 2000: Around 10 one to two weeks scientific visits through official invitation to the Departement of Theoretical Physics,
  of the University of Geneva (Switzerland) in the group of Prof. R. Durrer.


• 2001 - 2004: Around 5 one to two weeks scientific visits through official invitations to the Laboratory of Condensed Matter Physics
  of the Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau (France) in the group of Prof. B. Sapoval.


• 2001 - 2007: Around 15 one to two weeks scientific visits through official invitations to the Laboratory of Theoretical Physics
  of the University Paris XI - Orsay (France) and University Paris VI (Jussieu) in the group of Prof. M. Joyce.


• 03-04/2008: Visiting Professor position, at LPTHE - Universite' Paris VII - Jussieu (Paris, France) in the group of Prof. M. Joyce.

Schools of Physics

• International School of Physics "Enrico Fermi", ``The Physics of Complex Systems'', Varenna (Italia), 9-19/07/1996.

• ``Dynamics and Morphogenesis of Branching Structures", 11-15/ 10/ 1999, Les Houches (France).

• International School on Complexity, ``Biological networks'', 7-11/10/2006, ``Ettore Majorana'' Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture, Erice (Italy).

Teaching experience

• 1999 - Lessons on "Multifractal sets" for Ph.D. students of the Physics Department of University "La Sapienza" of Rome (Italy).

• 1999-2007 - Supervision of 5 graduate thesis of students of the Physics Department of University "La Sapienza" of Rome (Italy).

• 2005 - Course on "Graphs, networks and scale invariance" for Ph.D. students of the Physics Department of University "La Sapienza" of Rome (Italy).

• 2006 - Course on "Fluctuation theory in networks and scale-invariant systems" for Ph.D. students of the Physics Department of University "La Sapienza" of Rome (Italy).

• 2006 - Lessons on "Physics of complex systems" for undergraduate students of the Physics Department of University "La Sapienza" of Rome (Italy).

• 2007 - Course on "Fluctuation theory in networks and scale-invariant systems" for Ph.D. students of the Physics Department of University "La Sapienza" of Rome (Italy).

• 2007 - Lessons on "Physics of complex systems" for undergraduate students of the Physics Department of University "La Sapienza" of Rome (Italy).

• 2008 - Course on "Fluctuation theory in networks and scale-invariant systems" for Ph.D. students of the Material Science c/o Physics Department of University "La Sapienza" of Rome (Italy).

• 2009 - Course on "Fluctuation theory in networks and scale-invariant systems" for Ph.D. students of the Material Science c/o Physics Department of University "La Sapienza" of Rome (Italy).

Referees

Letters of recommendation can be obtained from:

• Prof. L. Pietronero (Luciano.Pietronero@roma1.infn.it)
  Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Roma ``La Sapienza'',
  P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Roma, Italy
  tel. +39-6-49913488, fax +39-6-4463158
  Web-page: http://pil.phys.uniroma1.it/~luciano
• Prof. B. Sapoval (Bernard.Sapoval@polytehnique.fr)
  Laboratoire de Physique de la Matière Condensée, Ecole Polytechnique,
  91128 PALAISEAU Cedex, France
  tel. +33-01-69334172, fax +33-01-69333004
  Web-page: http://pmc.polytechnique.fr/bs/
• Prof. Michael Joyce (joyce@lpnhep.in2p3.fr)
  Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Energies, Université de Paris VI,
  4, Place Jussieu, Tour 33 - Rez de chaussée, 75252 - Paris, France
  tel. +33-(0)1-44277252; Fax +33-(0)1-44274638
• Prof. Salvatore Torquato (torquato@electron.Princeton.EDU)
  Chemistry and Princeton Materials Institute Princeton University,
  Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA
  Web-page: http://cherrypit.princeton.edu/sal.html

• Prof. Ruth Durrer (ruth.durrer@physics.unige.ch)
  Department of Theoretical Physics, University of Geneva,
  24, Quai E. Ansermet, CH-1211, Geneva, Switzerland
  Tel. +41-22-7026884; Fax +41-22-7026870
  Web-page: http://mpej.unige.ch/~durrer/ruth2.htm
• Dott. M. Marsili (marsili@sissa.it)
  Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia (INFM), Sezione Trieste-SISSA,
  V. Beirut 2-4, I-34014 Trieste
  tel. +39-040-2240461, fax +39-040-3787528