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Our research, at the edge of statistical physics, applied mathematics and computer science, relies on theoretical and computational network science to cover a wide spectrum of interests, with applications to social and socio-technical systems, computational epidemiology, smart urban systems, systems biology, systems neuroscience, systems medicine.
Applications from talented and motivated undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral scholars, as well as visiting researchers, are welcome at any time: please, include a cover letter and CV, in plain English, in your inquiry.
Disclaimer: due to the large number of requests I receive, it might happen that some unsolicited proposals might receive no reply.
On a rolling basis I accept motivated students for internship/thesis projects from UniPD students on:
- Statistical physics of complex networks
- Geometry of complex networks
- Information theory of complex networks
- Nonlinear dynamical systems, from reconstruction to analysis
- Systems biology and systems medicine (human brain, connectomics, protein-protein interactions, ...)
- Human mobility and dynamics
- Population dynamics (evolutionary, epidemic spreading, ...)
- Computational social science (of collective events)
Open Positions
3 PhD Thematic Scholarship(s) at the Dept. of Physics to start in November 2025
Applications are open for three fully-funded scholarships (3 years) to work on a novel and visionary project to model the interdependency between climate change and man-made network infrastructures at national and global scales. The ultimate goal is to devise optimal mitigation and adaptation strategies. The positions are funded by the Italian Ministry for University and Research's prestigious FIS program, the “Italian ERC”.
The ideal candidate wants to pursue a research activity in statistical physics, developing modeling and computational skills. Experience with network science, models of network dynamics, statistical field theory and machine learning and/or optimization procedures will be considered a significant advantage. The selected candidate will join our young and dynamic research team, the Complex Multilayer Networks Lab, while being part of the prestigious Padua Doctoral Programme in Physics (see Details).
Interested candidates should tempestively contact me for further details.
Only applications submitted through the online portal will be considered. The official call will be open from April 2025: visit this website and follow the instruction.
Deadline for applications: 13 May 2025
PhD Scholarship(s) at the Dept. of Physics
Fully funded scholarships (3 years) are provided, every year, within the Doctoral Programme in Physics (see Details). The lab works within the research area of Statistical Physics of Complex and Biological Systems and is interested in several aspect of network science (visit this page for recent publications organized by topic/domain).
Special attention will be given to projects mixing theoretical aspects and applications to empirical systems, especially for biomolecular (sub-cellular/cellular and brain networks), living/social/ecological systems, infrastructural systems.
Dates for applications: April - May of each year
Deadline: usually on May [Go to the call]
PhD Scholarship(s) at the Dept. of Physics under the China Scholarship Council (CSC) program
Fully funded scholarships (3 years) are provided, every year, within the Doctoral Programme in Physics (see Details) for Chinese students under the UNIPD-CSC program. The lab works within the research area of Statistical Physics of Complex and Biological Systems and is interested in several aspect of network science (visit this page for recent publications organized by topic/domain).
Special attention will be given to projects mixing theoretical aspects and applications to empirical systems, especially for biomolecular (sub-cellular/cellular and brain networks), living/social/ecological systems, infrastructural systems.
Interested candidates should tempestively contact me for further details.
Only applications submitted through the online portal will be considered.
Dates for applications: November - December of each year
Deadline: usually on December [Go to the call]