Curriculum vitae

• 2018/Mar.-present: Member of the Editorial Board of PLOS ONE as Academic Editor.

• 2019/Jan.-present: Coordinator of the PhD program in Statistical Physics at SISSA.
• 2019/Mar.-present: Member of the technology transfer committee at SISSA.
• 2018/Dec.-present: Member of the international programme committee of ESOF2020 - the European Open Science Forum, Trieste, July 2020.
• 2018/Nov.-present: Director of ILAS - the Interdisciplinary Lab for Advanced Studies (Laboratorio Interdisciplinare per le Scienze Naturali e Umanistiche) at SISSA.
• 2017/Oct.-present: SISSA Director's delegate for the job placement of PhD students in the non-academic market.
• 2016/Sep.-2018/Oct.: Member of the Board of Directors (Consiglio di Amministrazione) of SISSA.
• 2014-2019: Deputy coordinator of the PhD in Statistical Physics at SISSA
• 2014-present: Coordinator of the project "Physics: history and epistemology" within the Sector "Science and Society" of the Interdisciplinary Lab for Advanced Studies (Laboratorio Interdisciplinare per le Scienze Naturali e Umanistiche) at SISSA.
• 2014-2019: SISSA Scientific Coordinator of the International Master Program "Physics of Complex Systems" co-organized with the Politecnico of Turin (Italy), the Universities of Paris 6, 7, 11, and the École Normale Supérieure of Cachan (Paris).
• 2013/Mar.-present: Member of the International Advisory Board of MECO - Middle European Cooperation in Statistical Physics.
• 2013/Jan.-Oct.: Director of the Sector "Science and Society" of the Interdisciplinary Lab for Advanced Studies (Laboratorio Interdisciplinare per le Scienze Naturali e Umanistiche) at SISSA.
• 2012-present: Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Master in Science Communication at SISSA.
• 2012-2015: Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Master in Digital Science Journalism at SISSA.
• 2009-present: (a) Member of the faculty of the PhD in Statistical Physics at SISSA. (b) Referee and member of the PhD committees at SISSA, at Italian Universities, and abroad (Università di Pisa, Università di Roma "La Sapienza", Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Laboratoire MSC de l'Université Paris 7, Institut Jean Lamour of the Nancy Université, ENS Lyon, Université de Paris 6, LPTMS Université Paris-Sud). (c) Member of the selection committees for (non-tenured) researchers, post-docs, and PhD students at SISSA.
• 2004-2009: Member of a number selection committees for PhD and post-doctoral positions at the Max-Planck Institut für Metallforschung, Stuttgart (Germany).

• 2019-2021: Coordinator of the SISSA Research Unit within the PRIN-2017 grant "Coarse-grained description for non-equilibrium systems and transport phenomena (CO-NEST)" of the Italian Ministry for University and Research (MIUR). The total grant amounts at ca. 1M EUR, of which ca. 180 kEUR are assigned to the SISSA Unit.
• 2009-2013: Principal investigator of the grant by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR) within the Brain Gain Programme (Rientro dei Cervelli) to carry out research and teaching at SISSA. The grant covered 95% of the salary of the PI (ca. 220 kEUR) and provided financial support for travelling (ca. 15 kEUR). Research topic: Nonequilibrium behaviour of statistical systems.
• 2009-present: Financially supported by INFN - Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics, within the research project FI11 and SFT: Statistical Field Theory.
• 2012: Grant by CEI - Central European Initiative for supporting the participation of scientists from CEI member states into MECO38 - 38th Conference of the Middle European Cooperation in Statistical Physics, 25-27 March 2013, ICTP, Trieste (Italy), ca. 10 kEUR.
• 2000-2002: Graduate fellowship at the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa (Italy).
• 1999-2002: Financially supported by INFN within the research project PI11 (INFN Sezione di Pisa): Quantum and Statistical Theory of Fields.
• 1998: INFN (National Institute of Nuclear Physics) scholarship for the participation to the INFN - summer student program at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, IL (USA).
• 1995-1999: Undergraduate fellowship at the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa (Italy).

1. 2019/Jun. 9-16: Invited research stay within the program Active and Driven Matter: Connecting Quantum and Classical Systems at the Aspen Center for Physics, Aspen, CO (USA). This visit was financially supported by a grant of the Simons Foundation.
2. 2018/Apr. 18-28: Invited research stay within the program Quantum Paths at the Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematics and Physics, Wien (Austria).
3. 2014/May 11-20: Invited research stay within the program Advances in Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics: large deviations and long-range correlations, extreme value statistics, anomalous transport and long-range interactions at the Galileo Galilei Institute for Theoretical Physics, Firenze (Italy).
4. 2014/April 13-17: Chercheur Associé CNRS at the Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Hautes Energies, Unité Mixte de Recherche (UMR 7589) de l'Universit e Pierre et Marie Curie et du CNRS, Paris (France). Invited by Prof. L. F. Cugliandolo.
5. 2014/Feb. 17-26: Visiting scientist at the Max-Planck-Institut fur Intelligente Systeme, Stuttgart (Germany). Invited by Prof. S. Dietrich
6. 2013/Sep. 15-25: Visitor at the Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Hautes Energies, Unité Mixte de Recherche (UMR 7589) de l'Universit e Pierre et Marie Curie et du CNRS, Paris (France). Invited by Prof. L. F. Cugliandolo.
7. 2013/Jun. 24-Jul. 8: Visiting scientist at the Max-Planck-Institut fur Intelligente Systeme, Stuttgart (Germany). Invited by Prof. S. Dietrich.
8. 2012/Sep. 24-Oct. 12: Invited research stay within the program Quantum Dynamics in Far from Equilibrium Thermally Isolated Systems at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara (USA).
9. 2012/Apr. 10-May 27: Invited research stay within the program New quantum states of matter in and out of equilibrium at the Galileo Galilei Institute for Theoretical Physics, Firenze (Italy).
10. 2011/Jun. 14-30: Visiting scientist at the Max-Planck-Institut für Intelligente Systeme, Stuttgart, Germany. Invited by Prof. S. Dietrich.
11. 2011/May 14-Jun. 13: Chercheur Associé CNRS, Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Hautes Energies, Unité Mixte de Recherche (UMR 7589) de l’Université Pierre et Marie Curie et du CNRS, Paris, France. Invited by Prof. L. F. Cugliandolo.
12. 2010/Oct. 18-Dec. 12: Chercheur Associé CNRS, Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Hautes Energies, Unité Mixte de Recherche (UMR 7589) de l’Université Pierre et Marie Curie et du CNRS, Paris, France. Invited by Prof. L. F. Cugliandolo.
13. 2008/Oct. 27-Nov. 14: Invited research stay within the program The Theory and Practice of Fluctuation-Induced Interactions at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara (USA).
14. 2008/Sep. 18-Oct. 4: Short-term visitor at the Laboratoire de Physique Théorique d’Orsay, Université de Paris-Sud, Orsay (France). Invited by Dr. G. Schehr and Prof. H. Hilhorst.
15. 2008/Feb. 24-Mar.21 : Visitor at the Ian Wark Research Institute, University of South Australia, Adelaide (Australia). Invited by Prof. John Ralston, Director.
16. 2007/Nov. 26-Dec. 20: Invited lecturer at the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), Trieste (Italy). Invited by Prof. G. Mussardo.
17. 2007/Nov. 19-24: Short-term visitor at the Laboratoire de Physique Théorique d’Orsay, Université de Paris-Sud, Orsay (France). Invited by Dr. G. Schehr.
18. 2007/Sep. 25-Oct. 5: Invited lecturer at the Department of Physics, University of Milano (Italy). Invited by Prof. S. Caracciolo.
19. 2003/Aug. 25-30: (Short-term) Visiting Scientist in the “Statistical Mechanics and Interdisciplinary Applications” Research Group within the Condensed Matter Section at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste (Italy). Invited by Prof. L. F. Cugliandolo.
20. 2002/Jul. 30-Aug. 15: Short-term visitor at the Department of Physics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA (USA). Invited by Prof. R. K. P. Zia and Prof. B. Schmittmann.

1. Workshop Density functional days 2019, 16-18 September 2019, Tübingen (Germany). Talk: The force of being critical (a scientific tribute to Prof. S. Dietrich on the occasion on his 65th birthday).
2. International workshop The many facets of non-equilibrium physics 2019, 7-12 July 2019, Mazara del Vallo (Italy). Talk: Slow dynamics and quasi-localization due to confined excitations.
3. International workshop Active and Driven Matter: Connecting Quantum and Classical Systems, 9-16 June 2019, Aspen Center for Physics, Aspen, CO (USA). Pedagogical Lecture: Non-equilibrium dynamics & quenches: from classical to quantum systems.
4. International workshop Statistical Physics and Low Dimensional Systems, 5-7 June 2019, Abbaye des Prémontrés, Pont-à-Mousson (France). Talk: Slow dynamics & quasi-localization due to confined excitations.
5. International workshop Curiosity-Driven Physics: From Algebras to Quantum Chains and Statistical Mechanics, a conference in memory of Vladimir Rittenberg, 23-24 April 2019, SISSA, Trieste (Italy). Talk: Dynamical transitions and Kapitza phases in periodically driven quantum spin chains.
6. Workshop on Modern Aspects of Quantum Physics, 1-5 October 2018, Zagreb (Croatia). Talk: Dynamical transitions, universality, and chaos in prethermal states.
7. International workshop NePhy2018 - Non-equilibrium Physics Meeting, 5-7 September 2018, University of Salerno, Fisciano (Italy). Talk: Dynamical transitions and Kapitza phases in periodically driven quantum spin systems.
8. International School of Statistical Physics, New Trends in Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics: Classical and Quantum Systems (nesmcq18), Ettore Majorana foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture, 25-31 Jul 2018, Erice (Italy). Talk: Dynamical transitions, universality, and chaos in prethermal states.
9. Meeting Soft Matter at Interfaces, Ringberg 2018, 30 April-2 May 2018, Ringberg Castle (Germany). Talk: Critical Casimir forces: where do we stand? (9 years later)
10. Invited participant and speaker at the program Quantum Paths, Erwin Schroinger International Institute for Mathematics and Physics, 18-28 April 2018, Wien (Austria). Talk: Dynamical transitions, universality, and chaos in prethermal states.
11. Scuola Superiore di Catania, 6-10 February 2018, Catania (Italy). Lectures: Non-equilibrium classical systems and eld theory (a primer) (10 h).
12. FisMat2017 - Italian National Conference on Condensed Matter Physics, 1-5 October 2017, Trieste (Italy). Talk: Dynamical crossovers and universality in prethermal critical states .
13. Granada Summer School on Quantum Matter, 27-31 August 2017, Granada (Spain). Lectures: Scaling and universality after quantum quenches (3h).
14. Invited participant and speaker at the program Large deviation theory in statistical physics: Recent advances and future challenges, 11-22 September 2017, ICTS -International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Bengaluru (India). Talk: Large deviations in non-equilibrium quantum statistical physics: From irreversible work to transport.
15. Joint Weizmann-SISSA Meeting, Emergent Structures in Physics and Neuroscience, 25-28 June 2017, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot (Israel). Talk: Universality and scaling in non-equilibrium (quantum) systems.
16. SFT 2017 - Lectures on Statistical Field Theories, 6-17 February 2017, Galileo Galilei Institute, Florence (Italy). Lectures: From stochastic dynamics to statistical field theory (10h).
17. Workshop on New Trends in Low-Dimensional Physics: Quantum Integrability and Applications, 1-15 September 2016, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing (China). Talk: Universality, short-time dynamics and aging after quenches in isolated quantum systems.
18. Conference on Entanglement and Non-Equilibrium Physics of Pure and Disordered Systems, 25-27 July 2016, Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste (Italy). Talk: Universality, short-time dynamics and aging after a quench in isolated quantum systems.
19. IAS Focused Program Casimir and van deer Waals Physics: Progress and Prospects, 25-28 April 2016, HKUST Jockey Club Institute for Advanced Studies, Hong Kong (SAR, China). Talk: Nonadditivity of Critical Casimir Forces.
20. FisMat2015 - Italian National Conference on Condensed Matter Physics, 27 September-2 October, Palermo (Italy). Talk: Short-time universality and aging after a quench in isolated quantum systems.
21. Symposium PIERS 2015 - Focus Session on Casimir effect and heat transfer, 6-9 July 2015, Prague (Czech Republic). Talk: Critical Casimir forces & many-body effects.
22. Conference Dynamics in Soft and Hard Condensed Matter, 2-4 March 2015, Buenos Aires (Argentina). Talk: Short-time universality after a quench of an isolated quantum system.
23. Workshop on Quantum Information and Thermodynamics, 23-27 February 2016, São Carlos (Brazil). Talk: Irreversible work, large deviations, critical Casimir effect, and universality in quantum quenches.
24. School on Non-linear Dynamics, Dynamical Transitions and Instabilities in Classical and Quantum Systems, 14 July-1 August 2014, ICTP, Trieste (Italy). Talk: Prethermalization in a non-integrable Ising quantum spin chain.
25. Spring College on the Physics of Complex Systems, 26 May-20 June 2014, ICTP, Trieste (Italy). Lectures: Stochastic Processes and Applications (20 h).
26. Conference Casimir Physics 2014, 30 March-4 April 2014, École de Physique des Houches (France). Talk: Non-equilibrium critical Casimir forces.
27. Symposium PIERS 2013 - Special Session on Casimir effect and heat transfer, 12-15 August 2013, Stockholm (Sweden). Talk: Non-equilibrium critical Casimir forces.
28. Imperial workshop on Large Deviations Theory, 10 July 2013, Imperial College, London (UK). Talk: Irreversible work, large deviations, critical Casimir effect, and universality in quantum quenches.
29. Workshop Statistical Physics and Low Dimensional Systems, 15-17 May 2013, Abbaye des Prémontrés, Pont-à-Mousson (France). Talk: Irreversible work, large deviations, critical Casimir effect, and universality in quantum quenches.
30. ESF workshop Engineering the Casimir effect - theoretical and experimental perspectives, 8-10 November 2012, Tenerife (Spain). Talk: Work, large deviations, critical Casimir effect, and universality in quantum quenches.
31. Workshop New quantum states of matter in and out of equilibrium, April-May 2012, Galileo Galilei Institute for Theoretical Physics, Firenze (Italy). Talk (18 May): Dynamic correlations, fluctuation-dissipation relations and effective temperatures after a quantum quench (of the Ising chain).
32. VIII Workshop of the GISC - Grupo Interdisciplinar de Sistemas Complejos, 3 February 2012, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Madrid (Spain). Talk: The universal force of critical fluctuations: Casimir, wetting, colloids and all that.
33. Topical school in Statistical Physics: Modern Applications of Conformal Invariance, 21-23 March 2011, Institut Jean Lamour, Nancy-Université, Nancy (France). 3 Lectures: Field Theory and Nonequilibrium Critical Phenomena: A Primer.
34. Meco36: 36rd Conference of the Middle European Cooperation in Statistical Physics, Lviv (Ukraine) 5-7 April 2011. Talk: Steering the Casimir effect: lateral forces, levitation, and dynamics.
35. Workshop Fluctuations and Casimir Forces, Tenerife (Spain), 3-6 November 2010. Talk: Steering the Casimir effect: lateral forces, levitation, and dynamics.
36. 9th Conference on Quantum Field Theory under the Influence of External Conditions (QFEXT09), The University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma (USA), 21-25 September 2009. Talk: Controlling and Harnessing Critical Casimir Forces.
37. Summer College on Nonequilibrium Physics from Classical to Quantum Low Dimensional Systems, ICTP, Trieste (Italy), 6-24 July 2009. Talk: Slow dynamics in classical critical systems.
38. Meeting Soft Matter at Interfaces, Ringberg 2009, Ringberg Castle, Germany, 8-11 March 2009. Talk: Critical Casimir forces: where do we stand?
39. International workshop 60 years of Casimir effect, ICCMP, University of Brasilia (Brazil), 23-27 June 2008. Talk: The Casimir effect: from quantum to critical fluctuations.
40. Meco33: 33rd Conference of the Middle European Cooperation in Statistical Physics, Puchberg/Wels (Austria) 14-16 April 2008. Talk: Thermodynamic Casimir effect: fluctuation-induced forces at work.
41. StatPhys23: XXIII IUPAP International Conference on Statistical Physics, Genova (Italy), 9-13 July 2007. Invited talk in the topical session “Phase transitions and critical phenomena”: Relaxation phenomena at criticality.
42. Statistical Physics and Low Dimensional Systems 2007, atelier des groupes Physique Statistique et Surfaces et Spectroscopies, LPM, Université Henri Poincaré, Nancy (France), 23-25 May 2007. Talk: Dynamic crossover in the persistence properties of critical systems.
43. XIII workshop on Statistical Mechanics and non-perturbative Field Theory, Bari (Italy), 20-22 September 2006. Talk: A closer look at Critical Points: Slow dynamics, aging and their universal features.
44. XXIV Convegno Fisica Teorica e Struttura della Materia [Theoretical Physics and Structure of Matter], Levico Terme (Italy), 17 - 20 September 2006. Talk: Fenomeni critici in stati stazionari di non-equilibrio: il caso della diffusione forzata [Critical phenomena in non-equilibrium steady states: The case of driven diffusion].
45. Statistical Physics and Low Dimensional Systems 2006, atelier des groupes Physique Statistique et Surfaces et Spectroscopies, LPM, Université Henri Poincaré, Nancy (France), 17-19 May 2006. Talk: Finite-size scaling in the non-equilibrium critical behavior of the randomly driven lattice gas: The field-theoretical approach.
46. 6th NTZ-Workshop on Computational Physics CompPhys05, Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Leipzig, Leipzig (Germany), 1-2 December 2005. Talk: Critical behavior of the two-dimensional randomly driven lattice gas.
47. Summerschool Ageing and the Glass Transition, University of Luxembourg (Luxembourg city), 18-24 September 2005. Invited lecture: Slow dynamics at critical points: the field-theoretical perspective.
48. Meeting Soft Matter at Interfaces, Ringberg 2004, Ringberg Castle, Germany, 23-25 February 2004. Talk: Critical Dynamics in Confined Systems.
49. International Seminar on Non-Equilibrium Statistical Physics in Low Dimensions and Reaction Diffusion Systems, Max-Planck Institut für Physik Komplexer Systeme, Dresden (Germany), 22 September-3 October 2003. Talk: The Driven Lattice Gas: which Universlity Class?
50. Workshop Progress in Nonequilibrium Statistical Physics and Disordered Systems - Atelier Nancy 2003, LPM, Nancy (France), 21-22 May 2003. Talk: Aging in ferromagnetic systems at criticality.

Postdoctoral fellows:

• 2019/October - present: Aritra Kundu.
• 2017/September - 2019/September: Sascha Sebastian Wald.
• 2015/September - 2017/August: Urna Basu (now Associate Professor at the Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, India).

Graduate students:

• 2018/Sep.-present: Gennaro Tucci (PhD program in Statistical Physics at SISSA).
• 2017/Sep.-present: Gabriele Perfetto (PhD program in Statistical Physics at SISSA).
• 2017/Sep.-2019/Oct.: Paolo Pietro Mazza (PhD program in Statistical Physics at SISSA). Title of the thesis: Non-equilibrium dynamics in one-dimensional constrained quantum statistical systems, defended and approved on 4 October 2019.
• 2016/Sep.-2019/Oct.: Riccardo Ben Alì Zinati (co-supervision, PhD program in Statistical Physics at SISSA). Title of the thesis: Universality: From discrete symmetry models to active matter systems, defended and approved on 4 October 2019.
• 2016/Sep.-2019/Oct.: Alessio Lerose (co-supervision, PhD program in Statistical Physics at SISSA). Title of the thesis: Nonequilibrium phenomena in quantum many-body systems with long-range interactions, defended and approved cum laude on 4 October 2019.
• 2013/Nov.-2016/Oct.: Alessio Chiocchetta (PhD program in Statistical Physics at SISSA). Title of the thesis: A study on non-equilibrium dynamics in isolated and open quantum systems, defended and approved cum laude on 16 October 2016. This thesis has been awarded the SISSA best PhD thesis prize 2017 in Physics.
• 2011/Nov.-2014/Nov.: Pierangelo Lombardo (PhD program in Statistical Physics at SISSA). Title of the thesis: Fluctuations effects in population genetics and in protein translation, defended and approved on 5 November 2014.
• 2010/Nov.-2013/Oct.: Matteo Marcuzzi (PhD program in Statistical Physics at SISSA). Title of the thesis: A study on non-equilibrium dynamics in classical and quantum systems, defended and approved on 30 October 2013.
• 2009/Jun.-2011/Oct.: Laura Foini (co-supervision, PhD program in Statistical Physics at SISSA). Title of the thesis: Disordered and out-of-equilibrium quantum systems, defended and approved on 26 October 2011. Laura Foini has been awarder the 2017 Early Career Prize of the Statistical and Non-Linear Physics Division of the European Physical Society for the results reported in her thesis and some works originated from them.

Undergraduate students:

• 2018/Sep.-2019/Apr.: Michele Vodret (Master program in Physics, University of Milan, Italy). Title of the thesis: Functional renormalization-group approach to nonequilibrium critical dynamics: calculation of the fluctuation-dissipation ratio, defended and approved on 4 April 2019 with the final mark of 110/110 cum laude.
• 2018/Sep.-2019/Apr.: Pietro Torta (co-supervision, Master program in Physics, University of Milan, Italy). Title of the thesis: Optimal control for long-range interacting quantum systems in the spin-wave approximation, defended and approved on 4 April 2019 with the final mark of 110/110 cum laude.
• 2018/Apr.-Aug.: Diego Doimo (Master program in the Physics of Complex Systems, Polytechnic of Turin, Italy). Title of the thesis: Work statistics in a quench of the quantum spherical model, defended and approved on 17 September 2018 with the final mark of 110/110 cum laude.
• 2016/Feb.-Jul.: Gabriele Perfetto (Master program in the Physics of Complex Systems, Polytechnic of Turin, Italy). Title of the thesis: Statistics and ballistic transport from a quench of two Ising chains, defended and approved on 27 July 2016 with the final mark of 110/110 cum laude.
• 2015/Sep.-2016/Mar.: Andrea Marcello Mambuca (joint Master program in Physics SISSA-University of Trento, Italy, co-supervised with L. Dall'Asta, Polytechnic of Turin). Title of the thesis: Genetic dynamics of spatially subdivided populations with balancing selection, defended and approved on 24 March 2016 with the final mark of 107/110.
• 2014/Nov.-2015/Jul.: Giovanni Andrea Frigeri (Master program in Physics, University of Milan). Title of the thesis: Non-equilibrium dynamics and effective temperatures of a noisy quantum Ising chain, defended and approved on 6 October 2015 with the final mark of 110/110 cum laude.
• 2014/Apr.-Oct.: Alberto Pezzotta (joint Master program in Physics, SISSA-University of Trento, Italy). Title of the thesis: Statistics of the work in quantum quenches, defended and approved on 23 October 2014 with the final mark of 30/30.
• 2010/Oct.: Gasmi Noura (co-supervision, Master program in Condensed Matter Theory, Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy). Title of the thesis: Persistence exponent for non-Markovian stochastic processes, defended and approved on 4 December 2010.