Luca (he/him) is a PhD student supervised by Professor Alessandro Vespignani, passionate about understanding how epidemics spread through the ways people move, travel, and connect across the world, and about how artificial intelligence can be used to model and anticipate these dynamics. Before joining the Network Science Institute, Luca earned a Master’s degree in Artificial Intelligence at the University of Trento, spending one semester in Finland at Aalto University and another in South Korea at KAIST.
His motto is: “I have no special talents, I am only passionately curious", and outside academia, his greatest passions are art history, memes, and discovering new cultures around the globe!
Awards and honors
- Knight of the Order of the Star of Italy, Presidency of the Italian Republic, 2020
- Euler Award, The Network Science Society, 2020
- John Graunt award for extraordinary achievements in one of the population sciences, Radboud Institute for Health Sciences, The Netherlands, 2018.
- Senior Scientific award for outstanding contributions to Complex Systems & Network sciences, Complex Systems Society, 2018.
- Elected Fellow, Network Science Society, 2018.
- Doctorate Honoris Causa, Delft Technical University, The Netherlands (January 13, 2017)
- 2016 Aspen Institute Italia Award for scientific research and collaboration between Italy and the United States for the research on the “Spatiotemporal spread of the 2014 outbreak of Ebola virus disease in Liberia and the effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical intervention: a computational modelling analysis.”
- 2015 Northeastern University Excellence in Research and Creative Activity Award.
- President elected of the Complex Systems Society (2012 - 2015)
- Member of the Academy of Europe, section Physics and Engineering (2011).
- Sternberg Family Endowed Chair, Northeastern University (2011).
- Top cited article 2005-2010 award by the Theoretical Computer Science journal, Elsevier.
- Editor in Chief EPJ Data Science, Springer (2012 - 2017).
- Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society (2008).
- Founding director of the Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research, Indiana University (2008).
- James H. Rudy Endowed Chair, Indiana University (2008).
- Invited participant and tutorial presenter at the National Academies Keck Futures Initiative (NAKFI) on complexity, November 13-15 2008, Irvine CA.
- Organizational Leadership Award, Global Information Technology Management Association, June 2007.
- FLAD visiting Professor and associated member, Computational Biology Collaboratorium, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia (IGC), Lisbon, Portugal.
- Plenary speaker STATPHYS 23, the 23rd International Conference on Statistical Physics of the International Union for Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP), July 9-13, 2007.
- Invited lecturer National Academy of Engineering, 2005 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium.
- Marie Curie Fellow (1995-1997), the Human and Capital mobility program of the European Economic Community.
Memberships and boards
- Editorial Board Scientific Reports, Nature Publishing Group (2011 - present ).
- Editorial Board PLOS One, Public Library of Science (2010 – present).
- Editorial Board of Mathematical Biosciences, Elsevier (2010- 2012).
- Editorial Board of Journal of Computational Sciences, Elsevier (2009 – 2013).
- Editorial Board of European Physical Journal B, Springer Verlag (2006 – 2011).
- Editorial Board of Journal of Statistical Mechanics, IOP London, UK (2002 – 2011).
Research areas
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