Luca Calatroni

Address:Dipartimento di Informatica, Bioingegneria, Robotica e Ingegneria dei Sistemi (DIBRIS) & MaLGa, Via Dodecaneso 35, 16146, Genoa, Italy.
e-mail:luca.calatroni[at]unige[dot]ittel:+39(0)103356732

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Luca Calatroni

Associate Professor at the Computer Science, Bioengineering, Robotics and Systems Engineering Department (DIBRIS) at the University of Genoa, Italy.
PI at the Machine Learning Genoa Center (MaLGa), leading the Computational Imaging & Learning (CIL) research unit.
Affiliated to the Molecular Microscopy and Spectroscopy team at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), Genoa, Italy.
CNRS researcher (chargé de recherche) in the Morpheme team at the I3S laboratory in Sophia-Antipolis, France (on leave since Nov. 2024).

Research interests

My research lies in the modelling and the optimisation of mathematical signal and image processing problems, with focus on:

variational reconstruction methods in imaging inverse problems
non-smooth & non-convex optimisation
physics-inspired learning for imaging inverse problems

with applications to:

computational microscopy
digital restoration and analysis of artworks
bio-inspired models for vision.

Open positions

I am always looking for motivated and brilliant people willing to work with me. In case you are interested in my research activity, do not hesitate to submit spontaneous applications following this link or contacting me directly via e-mail.

Funded research projects (selection)

Royal Society International Exchanges Program, VALID (Variable-metric Bregman Algorithms for sparse imaging and data-driven regularisation). With A. Repetti (Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, UK).
ERC Starting Grant 2023, MALIN (Model-aware learning for imaging inverse problems in fluorescence microscopy). Press releases: here, here and here [France]; here [Italy].

ANR JCJC TASKABILE - Task-adapted bilevel learning of flexible statistical models for imaging and vision. Project website
ANR PRC MICROBLIND - Blind inverse problems and optical microscopy. PI: P. Weiss (CNRS, IMT).

Computational Imaging & Learning winter school

I am co-organising a PhD winter school on Computational imaging and learning: from physics to data-driven methods in the period February 23-27 2026. The school will take place at the University of Genova and will have T. Bubba (University of Ferrara), P. Escande and E. Soubies (CNRS) as instructors. Apply here!

Recent events

Lecturer at Explainable, Trustworthy and Robust Artificial Intelligence (ExTRAInt) PhD school, Lake Como School of Advanced Studies, September 8-11 2025.
Plenary speaker at the Low-Rank Models and Applications workshop, September 11-12 2025, Mons, Belgium.
Keynote speaker at the event Mathematics-Industry Networking Days (MATH-MIND), University of Bologna, Italy, September 18-19 2025.
Co-organiser (with E. Soubies, P. Weiss) of the conference (Blind) inverse problems in imaging: from foundations to applications, September 29-October 5 2025, CIRM, Marseille, France.
Visiting M. Giacomini at the Laboratori de Càlcul Numèric (LaCaN) of the University Politecnica de Catalunya, November 4-7 2025, Barcelona, Spain.

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