About me

My career has been characterized by interdisciplinarity. I received my B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering with a specialization in Control Theory and Digital Systems from EESC-USP (Escola de Engenharia de São Carlos, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil) in 2011. I received my M.Sc. degree in 2013 and my Ph.D. degree in 2017, both in Computer Science and Computational Mathematics, from ICMC-USP (Instituto de Ciências Matemáticas e de Computação, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil). I have been involved in research since the third year of my undergraduate studies. During my Master’s degree, I focused on studying how complex systems can contribute to machine learning algorithms and vice versa. During my Ph.D. and the first years of my postdoc, I focused more on spreading processes in single and multilayer networks, e.g., the spread of diseases. During my Ph.D., I also received a scholarship (FAPESP-BEPE) for an internship with Professor Yamir Moreno at the University of Zaragoza. Later, during my postdoc, motivated by social models in group-structured populations, I decided to start studying hypergraphs, which is currently my main line of research. Currently, I hold the position of Team Leader at the CENTAI Institute in Turin, a newly founded research institute, where I lead a team of seven members, including five researchers and two graduate students.

I am interested in nonlinear dynamics and stochastic processes in complex networks and structured populations. More specifically, I focus on epidemics and rumor spreading in single- and multi-level systems. I am also interested in the structural characterization of multilayer networks, mainly through spectral theory. Recently, I have also been involved in the study of higher-order interactions and hypergraphs, both from a structural and a dynamical point of view. If you need further information, please don’t hesitate to contact me.

My publications

My research is interdisciplinary. Below is an interactive visualization of my publications, roughly classified by the journal in which they were published.

My co-authors

During my research, I had the privilege of working with many brilliant and inspiring researchers worldwide. Below is an interactive visualization of their location.

Conferences I participated in

My research also allowed me to visit many countries to present my work. Below is an interactive visualization of the location of the events I attended.