Who we are

We are a team of biomedical and electronic engineers developing data science technologies to investigate the dynamics and structure of complex physiological systems.

Our research ranges from statistical physics to computational neuroscience and physiology and focuses on the use of signal processing, time series analysis and information theory to assess interactions in network systems, with application spanning from brain connectivity to cardiovascular oscillations and network physiology.

News and Updates - 2025

• Projects: PRIN project "High-Order Dynamical Networks in Computational Neuroscience and Physiology: an Information-Theoretic Framework" - HONEST - project meeting in Palermo on June 10, 2024 - see flyer here

Last papers: 

• Aug 2025: Anna's paper 'Effects of electrocardiographic noise on ultra-short term Heart Rate Variability indices ' is published in Computers in Biology and Medicine

• Aug 2025: Valeria’s first paper 'Information-Theoretic Analysis of EEG Wave Amplitude and Heart Rate Variability Reveals the Time Scale-Dependent Nature of Brain–Heart Interactions' is published in IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology 

• Jul 2025: Chiara's work 'Partial information decomposition for discrete target and continuous source random variables' is now published in PRE.

• Jul 2025: New work on tate Space Correspondence and Cross-Entropy methods for assessing bidirectional cardiorespiratory coupling in heart failure patients is published in Entropy

• Jun 2025: Irene’s first paper ' Time-Resolved Information-Theoretic and Spectral Analysis of fNIRS Signals from Multi-Channel Prototypal Device' is published in Entropy

• Mar 2025: Yuri's paper 'Exploring transient neurophysiological states through local and time-varying measures of information dynamics' is published in Applied Mathematics and Computation

• Feb 2025: New work on memory utilization in neural point processes accepted in IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering - preprint here

• Feb 2025: Our main work presenting the framework we use to compute hierarchical interactions in network systems is published in Neurocomputing!

• Feb 2025: New work on higher-order network representation in press in IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering

• Jan 2025: Review on Brain-heart interactions accepted by IEEE Reviews in Biomedical Engineering! Preprint here