Guido Caldarelli
Director
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Short Bio
Guido Caldarelli (born 1967) is an Italian theoretical physicist and expert in complex systems and network science. He currently serves as Director of the Institute for Complex Systems (Istituto dei Sistemi Complessi, ISC) at the National Research Council of Italy (CNR) and is Full Professor of Theoretical Physics at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. His academic training includes a degree in Physics from Sapienza University of Rome and a Ph.D. in Physics from SISSA (Trieste), followed by post-doctoral research at the University of Manchester and the University of Cambridge. His research spans the theory of complex and scale-free networks, multilayer modeling, and applications to socio-economic and financial systems. Caldarelli has published hundreds of peer-reviewed papers and several influential books, including Scale-Free Networks (Oxford University Press), has coordinated major European research projects, and has held leadership roles such as President of the Complex Systems Society. He is an elected Fellow of the American Physical Society and a prominent figure in the international complexity science community.
Research interests
Statistical Physics of Complex Systems, Complex Networks theory and application to socio-economical systems






