Guido Caldarelli


Guido Caldarelli is an Italian physicist and full professor in Theoretical Physics at Ca' Foscari University of Venice. He is married and has two children.

Biography

Caldarelli received his Ph.D. from SISSA, after which he was a postdoc in the Department of Physics and School of Biology, University of Manchester.
He then worked at the Theory of Condensed Matter Group, University of Cambridge, where he worked with Robin Ball and stayed in Wolfson College. He returned to Italy as a lecturer at National Institute for Condensed Matter and later as Primo Ricercatore in the Institute of Complex Systems of the National Research Council of Italy.
In this period he was also the coordinator of the Networks subproject, part of the Complexity Project, for the . From 2012 to 2020 he has been Professor at IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca. He also spent some terms at and in 2006 he has been visiting professor
at École Normale Supérieure in Paris.
In he has been elected for the years 2018-2021.

Research

The activity of Caldarelli is mainly focused on scale-free networks, complex networks and systems biology.
He has been coordinator of the European project , one of the first international activities based on the study of complex networks. He is presently coordinator of the European project on the study of financial networks and the project on Multi-level Complex Networks.
He has published numerous papers in physics and interdisciplinary journals, including Physical Review Letters and Nature.
His work on beauty and the stable marriage problem has been reported in the press.

Honours

Caldarelli has been awarded in 2019 with the

Books

Caldarelli is the author of a textbook for graduate students published by Oxford University Press. He also edited with World Scientific Press another book on the activity of project.
In 2012 he published together with the colleague and journalist Michele Catanzaro the book by Oxford University Press. In 2016 he published with Alessandro Chessa the book by the same publisher. In 2018 he edited together with Stefano Battiston and Antonios Garas the book again by Oxford University Press