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).

Recent events

Plenary speaker at the MIA conference on Mathematical Image Analysis, January 13-15 2025, IHP, Paris.
Invited seminar in the Optical imaging and complex media, January 16 2025, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, ENS, Paris.
Invited oral presentation at the International BASP frontiers conference, January 26-31 2025, Villars-sur-Ollon, Switzerland.
Poster presentation at SSVM 2025, May 18-22 2025, Totnes, UK.
Co-organiser and lecture of the pre-course on "Imaging & learning" of the international ERASMUS+ PhD school "Mathematics and machine learning for Image analysis", June 3-11 2025, University of Bologna, Italy.
Plenary speaker at Tomography Across Scales, June 16-21 2025, Strobl, Austria.
Invited speaker at the mini-symposium "Recent advances in computational inversion" organised by T. Bubba and S. Siltanen and at the mini-symposium "Low-dimensional representations in complex imaging problems" organised by E. Loli Piccolomini and S. Morigi at the AIP 2025 conference, Rio de Janeiro July 28-August 1 2025.
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 workshop (Blind) inverse problems in imaging: from foundations to applications, September 29-October 5 2025, CIRM, Marseille, France.