Meet the people who make up STEM Faculty.
Over the past twenty years I have been affiliated with the following institutions (in loose chronological order):
National University of Córdoba (Córdoba, Argentina) – PhD in Theoretical Physics (Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Astronomy).
International Centre for Theoretical Physics (Trieste, Italy) – Research fellow (condensed-matter physics)
University of Manchester – Research fellow and then Lecturer (Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health).
University of Bologna (Bologna, Italy) – Associate Professor (Physics department)
The Open University – Associate Lecturer, and then Staff Tutor from the summer of 2021 (School of Mathematics & Statistics – Applied Mathematics & Theoretical Physics group)
A rather incomplete summary of interests is as follows:
Condensed-matter and statistical physics: out of equilibrium dynamics of spin-glasses and ultra-thin magnetic systems with competing interactions; dynamics of neural networks and systems with long-range interactions; algorithms for fast Monte Carlo simulations of systems with long-range interactions.
Complex systems: scaling and fractal properties of human language; characterisation of the information content of semantic structures in human language; complex networks; modelling of biological invasions; modelling and quantification of information processing in neural systems; neural coding; measures of complexity based on information theory.
I am also interested in the relationship between information and thermodynamics, both in classical and quantum systems.
Over the years, I have taught undergraduate courses in various areas of physics and mathematics, including foundation mathematics, linear algebra, thermodynamics, mechanics, optics, and quantum mechanics. My teaching experience also extends to postgraduate courses in information theory and mathematical modelling in neuroscience.
Currently, I am part of the module teams for MST210 (Mathematical Methods, Models and Modelling), MST224 (Mathematical Methods), and MST374 (Computational Applied Mathematics). At the advanced undergraduate level, I teach Quantum Mechanics (SM380) and contribute to the physics project course (SXP390 - Radiation and Matter). I have previously taught Electromagnetism (SM381) at this level.
Additionally, I teach on the postgraduate module SM880, 'Quantum and Statistical Mechanics of Matter,' which is shared by both the MSc in Mathematics and MPhys programmes.
My main current external collaborators are Prof. Mirko Degli Esposti (University of Bologna, Italy), Dr Giampaolo Cristadoro (University of Milano Bicocca, Italy), and Dr Fernando Montani (National University of La Plata, Argentina).
