Scientific Advisory Board

Silvia De Monte

I am a researcher at the Department for Evolutionary Theory at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology in Plön, where I lead the research group Dynamics of Microbial Collectives, and at the Institute of Biology of École Normale Supérieure in Paris, France, in the Eco-Evo Math group. I have always be fascinated by the …

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Emmanuelle Botté

I’m a scientific consultant, writer and editor. A biochemist and molecular ecologist by training, I obtained a PhD from James Cook University in Australia, and pursued my career as a staff scientist at the Australian Institute of Marine Science. Using molecular and computational techniques, I worked within the microbiology team for 11 years to understand …

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Flavio Seno

Flavio Seno is full professor of Theoretical Physics of Matter at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Padu where is now head of the Department. He obtained his doctorate in 1992 and then carried out postdoctoral research at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and at the Department of Theoretical Physics at Oxford University. His …

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Agnese Seminara

Agnese Seminara (Ph.D physics University of Nice), was a postdoc in biological physics at Harvard University and at Institut Pasteur (2008-11). She was hired as an Instructor of Applied Mathematics at Harvard University (2012), as a researcher and director of research at CNRS (2013-21) and as a professor at the University of Genova (2021). She …

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Matteo Osella

I am a physicist generally interested in understanding complex emergent phenomena from simple rules and principles. Most of my research focuses on the interface between statistical physics and molecular biology, but I am also working on basic questions related to the inner working of artificial neural networks.

Sara Mitri

Sara Mitri leads a group that studies ecosystems of microbes, in particular how different species of microbes interact and how these interactions evolve over time. Sara grew up in Cairo and did her undergraduate there in computer science. Through a Master’s in the UK, a PhD in Switzerland and postdocs in the US and the …

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Nicole Dubilier

Nicole Dubilier is a Director at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen, Germany where she heads the Symbiosis Department. Her lab studies the diversity, ecology and evolution of symbioses between microorganisms and marine invertebrates from environments such as deep-sea hydrothermal vents and cold seeps, as well as shallow-water coral reefs and seagrass …

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Giovanni Ciriello

Flavio Seno is full professor of Theoretical Physics of Matter at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Padu where is now head of the Department. He obtained his doctorate in 1992 and then carried out postdoctoral research at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and at the Department of Theoretical Physics at Oxford University. His …

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Michele Caselle

Michele Caselle is full professor in Theoretical Physics at the Torino University. His main research interests are quantum field theories, statistical mechanics, computer simulations of complex systems and Computational Biology. He participate to the PhD program entitled: “Complex systems for life sciences” of which he was the director in the period 2009-2013.

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