Applied physics and complex systems

Research is centered on areas with strong interdisciplinarity: biology and medicine, environmental sciences, cultural heritage, accelerator physics, and mathematical physics of complex systems. Key experimental techniques include electrophysiology, microscopy, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), and X-rays. Various mathematical models (deterministic, stochastic, network theory) and algorithms in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence are employed to characterize biomedical, environmental, social, and financial phenomena, and are also the subject of theoretical research.

The groups are involved in numerous research projects at both national (PRIN, private funding) and European levels (Horizon Europe COST, MSCA, RIA), tackling issues of significant social impact—such as cancer and aging genomics, epidemiology, systems biology, environmental impact of climate change and human activity, archaeometry, X-ray dosimetry, development of new detectors, and automated diagnosis algorithms.

Research is conducted in collaboration with private companies (for R&D and consulting), international research centers and universities (Brown University, Cambridge University, CNRS Marseille, ETH Zurich, EMC Rotterdam, DTU Copenhagen, CRG Barcelona, Fraunhofer branch in Ravenna), and national institutions (CNR, INFN, SISSA Trieste).