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Manlio De Domenico
Position
Professore Associato
Address
VIA F. MARZOLO, 8 - PADOVA
Telephone
0498277095
Physicist of complex systems, with 13 years research experience. His research is focused on the study of interactions responsible for emerging phenomena – such as epidemic outbreaks – in natural and artificial interdependent systems, from cells to societies.
His works include the structure, dynamics, information capacity and resilience to perturbations of complex biological and social systems, with applications ranging from network medicine to human behavior and model-informed policy-making in response to epidemics spreading.
He published more than 130 papers (21 ISI highly cited) in peer-reviewed scientific journals, including Nature, Nature Methods, Nature Human Behavior, Nature Communications, Nature Physics, Physical Review Letters, Physical Review X, PNAS.
# EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION
University of Padua / Associate Professor
2021 - , PADUA (ITALY)
Research areas: systems of systems; molecular biology; network epidemiology; network medicine; physics of human behavior
Bruno Kessler Foundation / Complex Multilayer Networks Lab
2018 - 2021, POVO (ITALY)
Principal Investigator and Head of Laboratory.
Research areas: systems of systems; molecular biology; network epidemiology; network medicine; computational social sciences
Universitat Rovira i Virgili / Visiting Professor
2019 - 2021, TARRAGONA (SPAIN)
Subject: network science; complex systems
University of Trento / Adjunct Professor
2018 - 2021, TRENTO (ITALY)
Subject: network science; complex systems; data science
Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems / Visiting Researcher
2016, DRESDEN (GERMANY)
Research areas: computational social sciences; statistical physics
Universitat Rovira i Virgili / Postdoctoral Fellow
2013 - 2017, TARRAGONA (SPAIN)
Research areas: molecular biology; network epidemiology; network medicine; computational social sciences; systems of systems
University of Birmingham / Postdoctoral Fellow
2012 - 2013, BIRMINGHAM (UK)
Research areas: network epidemiology; computational social sciences; computational human behavior
University of Catania / PhD in Physics
2009 - 2011, CATANIA (ITALY)
Score: magna cum laude (Highest honors)
# PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
2020 - PRESENT
Member of MIDAS (Models of Infectious Disease Agent Study)
2020 - PRESENT
Topic Leader for the CLAIRE (Confederation of Laboratories for Artificial Intelligence) Covid-19 Initiative
2019 - PRESENT
National Coordinator of the Italian Chapter of the Complex Systems Society
2016 - 2021
Member of the Complex Systems Society Council
# SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
O. Artime, MDD, Nature Communications 12, 2478 (2021)
M. Boguna, et al, Nature Reviews Physics 3, 114 (2021)
A. Ghavasieh, M. Stella, J. Biamonte, MDD, Communications Physics 4, 129 (2021)
M. Grassia, MDD, G. Mangioni, Nature Communications 12, 5190 (2021)
P. Bosetti, P. Poletti, M. Stella, B. Lepri, S. Merler, MDD, PNAS 117, 30118 (2020)
S. Choobdar et al, Nature Methods 16, 843 (2019)
MDD, Physics of Life Reviews 24, 149 (2018)
MDD, Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 168301 (2017)
MDD, C. Granell, M.A. Porter, A. Arenas, Nature Physics 12, 901 (2016)
MDD, J. Biamonte, Phys. Rev. X 6, 041062 (2016)
MDD, V. Nicosia, A. Arenas, V. Latora, Nature Communications 6, 6864 (2015)
MDD, A. Sole-Ribalta, E. Omodei, S. Gomez, A. Arenas, Nature Communications 6, 6868 (2015)
MDD, A. Lancichinetti, A. Arenas, M. Rosvall, Physical Review X 5, 011027 (2015)
MDD, A. Sole-Ribalta, S. Gomez, A. Arenas, PNAS 11, 8351 (2014)
MDD et al, Phys. Rev. X 3
Notices
Orari di ricevimento
Lunedì from 10:30 to 12:30
Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Via Loredan 10, stanza #314E' fortemente consigliato di definire l'appuntamento in anticipo tramite posta elettronica
Pubblicazioni
See https://manliodedomenico.com/publications.php for an updated list.
# STATISTICAL PHYSICS
Percolation on feature-enriched interconnected systems
O. Artime, MDD, Nature Communications 12, 2478 (2021)
Unraveling the effects of multiscale network entanglement on empirical systems
A. Ghavasieh, M. Stella, J. Biamonte, MDD, Communications Physics 4, 129 (2021)
Network Geometry
M. Boguna, I. Bonamassa, MDD, S. Havlin, D. Krioukov, M.A. Serrano, Nature Reviews Physics 3, 114 (2021)
Statistical physics of complex information dynamics
A. Ghavasieh, C. Nicolini, MDD, Phys. Rev. E 102, 052304 (2020)
Complex Networks: from Classical to Quantum
J. Biamonte, M. Faccin, MDD, Communications Physics 2, 53 (2019)
Diffusion Geometry Unravels the Emergence of Functional Clusters in Collective Phenomena
MDD, Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 168301 (2017)
Spectral entropies as information-theoretic tools for complex network comparison
MDD, J. Biamonte, Phys. Rev. X 6, 041062 (2016)
Identifying modular flows on multilayer networks reveals highly overlapping organization in interconnected systems
MDD, A. Lancichinetti, A. Arenas, M. Rosvall, Physical Review X 5, 011027 (2015)
Structural reducibility of multilayer networks
MDD, V. Nicosia, A. Arenas, V. Latora, Nature Communications 6, 6864 (2015)
Mathematical Formulation of Multi-Layer Networks
MDD et al, Phys. Rev. X 3, 041022 (2013)
# NETWORK MEDICINE & SYSTEMS BIOLOGY
Multiscale statistical physics of the pan-viral interactome unravels the systemic nature of SARS-CoV-2 infections
A. Ghavasieh, S. Bontorin, O. Artime, N. Verstraete, MDD, Communications Physics 4, 83 (2021)
Assessment of network module identification across complex diseases
S. Choobdar et al, Nature Methods 16, 843 (2019)
The multiplex network of human diseases
A. Halu*, MDD*, A. Arenas, A. Sharma, NPJ Systems Biology and Applications 5, 15 (2019)
# NETWORK NEUROSCIENCE
Persistence of information flow: a multiscale characterization of human brain
B. Benigni, A. Ghavasieh, A. Corso, V. d'Andrea, MDD, Network Neuroscience 5, 831 (2021)
Quantifying efficient information exchange in real network flows
G. Bertagnolli, R. Gallotti, MDD, Communications Physics 4, 125 (2021)
Multilayer modeling and analysis of human brain networks
MDD, GigaScience 6, 1-8 (2017)
Mapping multiplex hubs in human functional brain network
MDD, S. Sasai, A. Arenas, Frontiers in Neuroscience 10, 326 (2016)
# NETWORK EPIDEMIOLOGY
Critical behavior in interdependent spatial spreading processes with distinct characteristic time scales
P. Castioni, R. Gallotti, MDD, Communications Physics 4, 131 (2021)
Heterogeneity in social and epidemiological factors determines the risk of measles outbreaks
P. Bosetti, P. Poletti, M. Stella, B. Lepri, S. Merler, MDD, PNAS 117, 30118 (2020)
Assessing reliable human mobility patterns from higher-order memory in mobile communications
J. T. Matamalas*, MDD*, A. Arenas, J. Roy. Soc. Inter. 13, 20160203 (2016)
Disease Containment Strategies based on Mobility and Information Dissemination
A. Lima, MDD, V. Pejovic, M. Musolesi, Scientific Reports 5, 10650 (2015)
# HUMAN BEHAVIOR
Bots are less central than verified accounts during contentious political events
S. Gonzalez-Bailon, MDD, PNAS 118, e2013443118 (2021)
Assessing the risks of "infodemics" in response to COVID-19 epidemics
R. Gallotti, F. Valle, N. Castaldo, P. Sacco, MDD, Nature Human Behavior 4, 1285 (2020)
Bots increase exposure to negative and inflammatory conte
Area di ricerca
I am Associate Professor of Applied Physics and Head of the Complex Multilayer Networks (CoMuNe) Lab at the Department of Physics and Astronomy 'Galileo Galilei' of the University of Padua.
My research activity is at the edge of theoretical, experimental and computational aspects of statistical physics of complex systems, where theory is used to make hypothesis about empirical phenomena in biological, ecological, socio-technical and socio-ecological sciences, which are then validated on real (sometimes massive) data sets. To date, I have applied such tools to:
- the interactome (i.e., protein-protein interactions) of human and several other organisms
- the human, macaque and C. Elegans connectomes
- complex diseases in humans
- a variety of socio-ecological and socio-technical ecosystems
- the Internet and the Dark Web
- a variety of transportation infrastructures, including the global airport network, rail networks, road networks and multimodal urban transportation means
A (non-exhaustive) list of my current activities includes:
- the mathematical formulation of multiplex networks, the study of their structure and of dynamical processes on such systems, the study of their resilience to random or targeted perturbations
- the formulation of an appropriate statistical physics/information theory of complex networks
- the formulation of a geometry of network-driven processes
- the application of advanced mathematical techniques to reduce the complexity of networked systems
- the functional representation of a system from the measurement of signals produced by its units, with application to human brain, human interactome, climate change and social systems
Tesi proposte
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.
Motivated students looking for thesis projects 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 exceptional events
can contact me to discuss about cutting-edge research-oriented and/or data-driven opportunities to join our lab.
