Francesco Ferraro

Francesco Ferraro

PhD candidate
Laboratory of Interdisciplinary Physics
National Biodiversity Future Center
University of Padova
Italy

About

I'm a researcher in theoretical physics and ecology. These fields may seem to have little in common, but it turns out that popular models in ecological theory can be proficiently analyzed using a statistical physics toolkit. I study these models within a disordered systems framework and draw implications on the stability, structure and dynamics of real ecological systems, trying to bridge the gap between theory and experiments.

At present, I'm a PhD candidate at the University of Padova and at the National Biodiversity Future Center, under the supervision of Sandro Azaele, Amos Maritan and Samir Suweis. During my PhD I briefly visited Harvard University and MIT. Previously I was a researcher at École Normale Supérieure in Paris in the group of David Holcman. For some time I was also an engineer at Femtorays Technologies. I obtained my master's degree in theoretical physics jointly at SISSA International School for Advanced Studies and the University of Trento, and my bachelor's degree in physics at the University of Padova.

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Publications

  1. Generalized Lotka-Volterra Systems with Time Correlated Stochastic Interactions
    Samir Suweis, Francesco Ferraro, Christian Grilletta, Sandro Azaele, Amos Maritan
    Physical Review Letters - arXiv (2024)
  2. Exact solution of Dynamical Mean-Field Theory for a linear system with annealed disorder
    Francesco Ferraro, Christian Grilletta, Amos Maritan, Samir Suweis, Sandro Azaele
    arXiv (2024)
  3. Opto-electronic device for the detection of substances dispersed in a fluid
    Carlo Guardiani, Lorenzo Pavesi, Francesco Ferraro, Niccolò Ardoino, Mattia Mancinelli
    Google Patents (2023)
  4. Nonequilibrium relaxation of a trapped particle in a near-critical Gaussian field
    Davide Venturelli, Francesco Ferraro, Andrea Gambassi
    Physical Review E - arXiv (2023)
  5. Dynamical behaviour of Brownian particles coupled to a critical Gaussian field
    Master's thesis
    SISSA, University of Trento (2021)
  6. Linking number and Gauss's integral for piecewise linear curves
    Bachelor's thesis (Italian)
    University of Padova (2018)

Talks


(last updated in October 2024)