Francesca Colaiori

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Prima Ricercatrice

keywords: complex systems; statistical physics; emergent phenomena; complex networks; social networks; diffusion dynamics on networks; network epidemiology; opinion dynamics; behavioral dynamics and information spreading
Address: Sapienza University, Rome – Physics Department, Fermi building, room 501 5th floor

Short Bio

I am a Prima Ricercatrice at the Institute for Complex Systems (CNR) in Rome. Before joining CNR, I worked at Sapienza University, INFM, the University of Manchester, the University of Oxford, and MIT. I hold a Ph.D. in Solid State Physics from SISSA (Trieste) and a degree in Physics from Sapienza University, where I graduated with highest honors (110/110 cum laude) with a thesis on spin glasses.

Research interests

I work in complex systems science, with a focus on how collective behaviors arise in systems composed of many interacting units. My research spans complex and social networks, opinion dynamics, biological and epidemic processes, computational linguistics, and magnetic systems. As a publicly funded scientist, I am committed to fostering public understanding of science and actively contributing to science education.

Rules and Exceptions in Language Dynamics

In all languages, rules have exceptions in the form of irregularities.…

Mixing by degree in signed social networks

Social networks have empirically been found to be assortative…

Dynamics of Virus-Host interaction

In the case of fast mutating viruses (e.g., Influenza virus),…

Fractures and crack propagation

The intermittent and self-similar fluctuations displayed by a…

Disorder driven non-equilibrium phase transition: the Random field Ising model

In hard magnetic materials, the domain walls movement or even…

Systems with multiplicative noise

Problems susceptible to be mathematically represented by stochastic…

Crackling noise: the Barkhausen effect

The term “crackling noise” refers to the signal that some…

Dynamic hysteresis in thin and ultra-thin films

The physics of thin and ultra-thin magnetic films has been extensively…
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