Guido Caldarelli (born in Rome on 8 April 1967) is an Italian

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(statistical physics) and

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in Theoretical Physics at Ca' Foscari University of Venice.

Biography

Caldarelli received his Ph.D. from

SISSA The International School for Advanced Studies (Italian: ''Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati''; SISSA) is an international, state-supported, post-graduate-education and research institute in Trieste, Italy. SISSA is active in th ...

, after which he was a postdoc in the Department of Physics and School of Biology,

University of Manchester , mottoeng = Knowledge, Wisdom, Humanity , established = 2004 – University of Manchester Predecessor institutions: 1956 – UMIST (as university college; university 1994) 1904 – Victoria University of Manchester 1880 – Victoria Univer ...

. He then worked at the

Theory of Condensed Matter The Cavendish Laboratory is the Department of Physics at the University of Cambridge, and is part of the School of Physical Sciences. The laboratory was opened in 1874 on the New Museums Site as a laboratory for experimental physics and is named ...

Group,

University of Cambridge , mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts. Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge. , established = , other_name = The Chancellor, Masters and Schola ...

, where he worked with Robin Ball. He returned to Italy as a lecturer at National Institute for Condensed Matter (INFM) 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 Fermi Centre. From 2012 to 2020 he has been Professor at

IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca ( it, Scuola IMT Alti Studi Lucca) is a public research institution and a graduate school located in Lucca, Italy. It was founded in 2005 under the name of IMT Institute for Advanced Studies, where the ac ...

. He also spent some terms at

University of Fribourg The University of Fribourg (french: Université de Fribourg; german: Universität Freiburg) is a public university located in Fribourg, Switzerland. The roots of the university can be traced back to 1580, when the notable Jesuit Peter Canisius ...

(Switzerland) and across 2005-2006 he has been visiting professor at

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in Paris. In CCS2018 (The Conference of Complex Systems Society), he has been elected President of the Complex Systems Society for the mandate 2018–2021.

Research

The activity of Caldarelli is mainly focused on

scale-free networks A scale-free network is a network whose degree distribution follows a power law, at least asymptotically. That is, the fraction ''P''(''k'') of nodes in the network having ''k'' connections to other nodes goes for large values of ''k'' as : P(k ...

, complex networks in theoretical models and in their application to

financial networks A financial network is a concept describing any collection of financial entities (such as traders, firms, banks and financial exchanges) and the links between them, ideally through direct transactions or the ability to mediate a transaction. A com ...

. He has been coordinator of the European project COSIN, one of the first international activities based on the study of complex networks as well as coordinator of the European project FOC on the study of financial networks and the project MULTIPLEX on Multi-level Complex Networks. All this activity contributed to the creation of network science community in the early stage of this discipline. He has published numerous papers in physics and interdisciplinary journals, including Physical Review Letters and Nature. His work on beauty and the

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has been reported in the press. He is also known for his research activity on systemic risk in networks of financial institutions

Honours

Caldarelli has been awarded in 2019 with the Network Society Fellowship and in 2020 with the Network Society Service Award. From 2020, he is member elected of

American Physical Society The American Physical Society (APS) is a not-for-profit membership organization of professionals in physics and related disciplines, comprising nearly fifty divisions, sections, and other units. Its mission is the advancement and diffusion of k ...

., similarly he has been elected member of the Academia Europaea

Books

Caldarelli is the author of ''Scale-free networks'' a textbook for graduate students published by

Oxford University Press Oxford University Press (OUP) is the university press of the University of Oxford. It is the largest university press in the world, and its printing history dates back to the 1480s. Having been officially granted the legal right to print books ...

. He also edited with World Scientific Press and

Alessandro Vespignani Alessandro Vespignani (born April 4, 1965) is an Italian-American physicist, best known for his work on complex networks, and particularly for work on the applications of network theory to the mathematical modeling of infectious disease, applicat ...

another book ''Large Scale Structure and Dynamics of Complex Networks'' on the activity of COSIN project. In 2012, he published together with the colleague and journalist Michele Catanzaro the book ''Networks: A Very Short Introduction'' by Oxford University Press. In 2016, he published with Alessandro Chessa the book ''Data Science and Complex Networks'' by the same publisher. In 2018 he edited together with Stefano Battiston and Antonios Garas the book ''Multiplex and Multilevel Networks'' again by Oxford University Press. He also coedited the book Networks in Cell Biology by

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References

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