Prizes and Honours
  1. SIMAI 2013 prize for young scientists in Applied Mathematics
  2. INdAM-SIMAI 2010 prize for the best Italian PhD theses in Applied Mathematics
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Projects and Grants
  1. PRIN
    A Unitary Mathematical Framework for Modelling Muscular Dystrophies
    (Participant)
  2. PRIN
    Integrated Mathematical Approaches to Socio-Epidemiological Dynamics
    (Principal Investigator)
    Grant: 465 k€
  3. PRIN
    Innovative numerical methods for evolutionary partial differential equations and applications
    (Participant)
  4. National Grant for Fundamental Research (FFABR)
    Grant: 3 k€
  5. Politecnico di Torino and Compagnia di San Paolo Starting Grant "Attracting Excellent Professors"
    TraForSafe - Vehicular and pedestrian traffic models: from flow forecast to safety management
    (Principal Investigator)
    Grant: 100 k€
  6. Google Research Award
    Multi-population models for vehicular traffic and pedestrians
    (Participant)
  7. FP7 NoE HYCON2
    Highly-complex and networked control systems
    (Participant, CNR Unit)
  8. INdAM-GNFM Young Researchers Project
    Multiscale methods and models for collective behaviour in living complex systems
    (Principal Investigator)
    Grant: 2 k€
  9. PRIN
    Nonlinear hyperbolic problems for applications
    (Participant)
  10. PRIN
    Mathematical models of mechanical interactions of cells and cell aggregates with the surrounding environment
    (Participant)
  11. PRIN
    Mathematical models of growth and vascularisation of tumours and biological tissues
    (Participant)
  12. INdAM Project
    Traffic flows and optimisation on complex networks
    (Participant)
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Organisation of Conferences
  1. Numerical Aspects of Hyperbolic Balance Laws and Related Problems (Cortona, Italy)
  2. From Kinetic Theory to Data Science and Related Topics (Pavia, Italy)
  3. Numerical Aspects of Hyperbolic Balance Laws and Related Problems - Young Researchers Conference (Verona, Italy)
  4. MAIn 2021 - Mathematics for Artificial Intelligence (Online seminar cycle)
  5. Recent trends in kinetic modelling and related fields (Torino, Italy)
  6. Problems in discrete dynamics: from biochemical systems to rare events, networks, clustering and related topics -- IV Edition (Arcidosso, Italy)
  7. Problems in discrete dynamics: from biochemical systems to rare events, networks, clustering and related topics -- II Edition (Arcidosso, Italy)
  8. From individual to collective behaviour: crowds and swarms (Roma, Italy)
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Editorial Activity
2018 - present
Associate Editor of Mathematics and Computers in Simulation (Elsevier)
2013 - 2015
Member of the Editorial Board of the Springer-Birkhäuser Series (Boston, USA) Modeling and Simulation in Science, Engineering and Technology
2012 - 2022
Member of the Editorial Board of SEMA SIMAI Springer Series
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Referee Activity
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PhD and Postdoc Students
Mar 23 - present
Mattia Sensi
Postdoc (co-supervised with Tommaso Lorenzi), Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Research topic: Integrated mathematical approaches to socio-epidemiological dynamics
Nov 22 - present
Emanuele Bernardi
PhD student (co-supervised with Tommaso Lorenzi), Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Research topic: Integro-differential models and their interplay with real data
Nov 21 - present
Elisa Paparelli
PhD student (co-supervised with Tommaso Lorenzi), Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Research topic: Integro-differential models for socio-epidemiological dynamics
Jul 21 - present
Martina Conte
Postdoc, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Research topic: Nested mathematical models in Biomedicine
Jan 20 - Jun 22
Felisia Angela Chiarello
Postdoc, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Research topic: Binary control and hydrodynamic limits of kinetic models of vehicular traffic
Nov 19 - Nov 21
Nadia Loy
Postdoc, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Research topic: Non-conservative kinetic models on networks for infectious disease transmission
Jun 17 - Aug 17
Sebastiano Roncoroni
Research fellow, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Research topic: Boltzmann-type kinetic equations for non-homogeneous vehicular traffic models
Jan 17 - Jul 18
Mattia Zanella
Postdoc, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Research topic: Kinetic models of multi-agent systems, Fokker-Planck asymptotics and related numerical approximations
Oct 16 - Sep 19
Nadia Loy
PhD student (co-supervised with Luigi Preziosi), Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Thesis: "Kinetic models for cell migration and their hydrodynamic limits"
Nov 15 - Oct 18
Raul De Maio
PhD student (co-supervised with Fabio Camilli), "Sapienza" University of Rome, Italy
Thesis: "Multiscale methods for traffic flow on networks"
Jan 14 - Dec 16
Giuseppe Visconti
PhD student (co-supervised with Gabriella Puppo and Matteo Semplice), Università degli Studi dell'Insubria, Como, Italy
Thesis: "Single- and multi-population kinetic models for vehicular traffic reproducing fundamental diagrams and with low computational complexity"
Jan 13 - May 15
Fabio Simone Priuli
Postdoc (co-supervised with Emiliano Cristiani), University of Rome "Tor Vergata" and IAC-CNR, Italy
Research topic: Optimisation of pedestrian flows in complex environments
Jan 12 - Dec 15
Marco Scianna
Postdoc, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Research topic: Multiscale models of environment sensing in cell aggregates and human crowds
Jan 12 - Dec 15
Alessandro Corbetta
PhD student (co-supervised with Luca Bruno, Adrian Muntean, Federico Toschi), Politecnico di Torino, Italy & TU/e Eindhoven, the Netherlands
Thesis: "Multiscale crowd dynamics: physical analysis, modeling and applications"
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Talks
  1. 21st IMACS World Congress 2023 (Rome, Italy) › website, slides
  2. 22nd Congress of the Italian Mathematical Union (UMI) (Pisa, Italy) › website, slides
  3. 13th AIMS Conference on Dynamical Systems, Differential Equations and Applications (Wilmington NC, USA) › website, slides
  4. First Order Problems on Networks and Applications (Rome, Italy) › website, slides
  5. Nonlinear PDEs and Applications (Rome, Italy) › website, slides
  6. Evolution in Discrete and Continuous Mechanics: Stability, Transients, and Asymptotics (Bressanone, Italy) › website, slides
  7. Mean-Field Models for interacting agents (Chicago IL, USA) › website
  8. The Legacy of Carlo Cercignani: from Kinetic Theory to Turbulence Modeling (online) › website, slides
  9. Collective Models, Control and Uncertainty Quantification for Infectious Diseases and Related Problems (online) › website, slides, video
  10. Kinetic Traffic Models and Numerical Methods (Rome, Italy) › website, slides
  11. 21st Congress of the Italian Mathematical Union (UMI) (Pavia, Italy) › website, slides
  12. ICIAM 2019 (Valencia, Spain) › website, slides
  13. The 28th Biennial Numerical Analysis Conference (Glasgow, Scotland) › website
  14. Trails in kinetic theory: foundational aspects and numerical methods (Bonn, Germany) › website, poster, slides, video
  15. Computational Mathematics, Statistics and Machine Learning (Pavia, Italy) › website, poster, slides
  16. Numerical Aspects of Hyperbolic Balance Laws and Related Problems (Ferrara, Italy) › website, poster, slides
  17. The finite volumes schemes and traffic modeling (Besançon, France) › website, slides
  18. Mathematics and Applications Sussex seminars (Brighton, UK)
  19. IperPV2017 (Pavia, Italy) › website, slides
  20. Emerging PDE models in Socio-Economic Sciences (Coventry, UK) › website, slides
  21. Current Topics in Kinetic Theory (Warsaw, Poland) › website, slides
  22. Problems in discrete dynamics - From biochemical systems to rare events, networks, clustering and related topics (Arcidosso, Italy) › slides
  23. X Forum of Partial Differential Equations (Będlewo, Poland) › website
  24. Analysis and Control on Networks: trends and perspectives (Padua, Italy) › website, poster
  25. Applied PDEs Seminar (London, UK) › website, slides
  26. Radon Group Seminars "New Frontiers Research" (Linz, Austria)
  27. Mathematical Foundations of Traffic (Los Angeles CA, USA) › website, slides, video
  28. MASCOT 2015 - 14th Meeting on Applied Scientific Computing and Tools (Rome, Italy) › website
  29. Meiji Seminar on Nonlinear Mathematical Sciences (Tokyo, Japan)
  30. ICMMA 14 Conference on Crowd Dynamics (Tokyo, Japan) › website, poster
  31. Modeling and Control in Social Dynamics (Camden NJ, USA) › website
  32. SIMAI 2014 (Taormina, Italy) › website
  33. Biomat 2014 - Complexity and Emergence in Social and Biological Systems (Granada, Spain) › website, poster
  34. NumHyp2013 - Numerical Approximations of Hyperbolic Systems with Source Terms and Applications (Aachen, Germany) › website
  35. The Mathematics of Cells and Tissues (Cortona, Italy)
  36. Mathematical Models and Methods for Planet Earth (Rome, Italy) › poster
  37. Partial Differential Equations in Mathematical Biology (Będlewo, Poland) › website
  38. Multiscale Analysis of Self-Organization in Biology (Banff, Canada) › website
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Visits
  1. University of Sussex
    Brighton, UK
    Prof. Bertram Düring
  2. Imperial College London
    London, UK
    Prof. José Antonio Carrillo de la Plata, Prof. Pierre Degond
  3. Johann Radon Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics (RICAM)
    Linz, Austria
    Dr. Marie-Therese Wolfram
  4. University of Ferrara
    Ferrara, Italy
    Prof. Lorenzo Pareschi
  5. Eindhoven University of Technology
    Eindhoven, the Netherlands
    Dr. Adrian Muntean, Prof. Federico Toschi
  6. Institute of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics
    Warsaw, Poland
    Prof. Mirosław Lachowicz
  7. Rutgers University
    Camden NJ, USA
    Prof. Benedetto Piccoli
  8. University of Minnesota
    Minneapolis MN, USA
    Prof. Hans Othmer
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Institutional Appointments
2021-2023
Member of the National Commission of the National Scientific Habilitation (ASN - Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale) for the scientific sector 01/A4 - Mathematical Physics
Nov 2020-present
Vice-coordinator of the PhD Programme in Pure and Applied Mathematics (Politecnico di Torino, University of Torino, INdAM)
Sep 2020-present
Member of the Scientific Committee of the Excellence Project, Department of Mathematical Sciences "G. L. Lagrange", Politecnico di Torino
2018-present
Delegate of the Boards of Teachers of Mathematical Engineering (Politecnico di Torino) for the study plans
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