Iacopo Paolo Longo

Current position

• Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University of Exeter

Research projects 

Ongoing

• [2025 - now] Past to Future: towards fully paleo-informed future climate projections (P2F)
  Horizon Europe at Uniersity of Exeter
  (PI Prof. Peter Ashwin - University of Exeter)

• [2020 - now] Transiciones criticas y bifurcación no autonoma en sistemas complejos de la ciencia y la tecnología.
  Proyecto de investigación de la Universidad de Valladolid
  (PI Prof. R. Obaya - University of Valladolid)

• [2020 - now] Ecuaciones diferenciales no autonomas. Dinamica, modelización y computación.
  Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación España
  (PI Prof. R. Obaya  - University of Valladolid)

Past

• [2023 - 2025] Rate-Induced Tipping In NonAutonomous Systems (RITINAS)
  EU-funded Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellowship
  Created by Dr. I.P. Longo (PI Dr. M. Rasmussen - Imperial College London)

• [2022 - 2023] Tipping Points in the Earth System (TiPES)
  Horizon Europe - SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Climate action, Environment, Resource Efficiency and Raw Materials
  (PI Prof. C. Kühn - Technical University Munich)

• [2020 - 2023] Synchronization in Co-Evolutionary Network Dynamics (SEND).
  International Graduate School of Science and Engineering (IGSSE)
  (PI Prof. C. Kühn - Technical University Munich)

• [2019  - 2021] Carathéodory for Assisted Intelligent Driving (CarAID).
  EU-funded Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship within the Eurotech Network
  Created by Dr. I.P. Longo (PI Prof. C. Kühn - Technical University Munich)

• [2015 - 2019] Critical Transitions in Complex Systems (CRITICS)
  EU-funded Marie Sklodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network
  (PI Prof. R. Obaya  - University of Valladolid)

I am a specialist in nonautonomous differential equations and dynamical systems with a record that speaks for itself: sixteen publications in leading peer-reviewed journals, more than £270k of competitively secured funding through personal grants—including two Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships—and substantial experience teaching and supervising across the full academic spectrum. I do not merely participate in my field; I drive it forward.

My scientific work has reshaped the study of critical transitions. I showed that nonautonomous saddle node bifurcations are the universal route to tipping points (rate-, phase, size induced) in a broad class of scalar differential equations. This achievement established a fundamental connection between critical transitions and nonautonomous bifurcation theory which allows a more rigorous and fitting mathematical understanding of certain critical phenomena on complex systems under time-dependent forcing. 

The current challenges in nonautonomous bifurcation theory demand a wise blend of topological, analytic, and geometric techniques, and I am one of a handful of mathematicians in the world which posses the expertise on nonautonomous dynamical systems theory and the understanding of applications to critical transitions which can produce substantial advancements in this field. More than that, I already have a concrete, ambitious research programme designed to deliver the next major breakthroughs involving uncertainties, networked structure and multiple time-scales.

My research vision extends well beyond tipping phenomena. It spans the full landscape of nonautonomous dynamical systems: the topological dynamics of ordinary, delay, and partial differential equations; synchronisation in nonautonomous networks; multi-scale systems; nonautonomous Hamiltonian dynamics; and random differential equations. 

My academic standing is reinforced by a strong record of peer review for leading journals and by the organisation of international conferences, workshops, and minisymposia. I have delivered more than forty invited talks in the last five years alone—a clear indicator of the visibility, relevance, and authority of my work.

My research excellence is matched by my teaching and mentoring experience. I have taught at every level of higher mathematical education: small-group tutorials, exercise classes, seminars, undergraduate and postgraduate courses, and lectures at a specialised doctoral school. I have done so in world-class institutions—Imperial College London, the Technical University of Munich, and the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems—each one strengthening my pedagogical flexibility and reach. I have extensive experience in supervising students and young researchers. Finally, my profile is rounded out by a strong and persistent commitment to improving research culture and integrity.