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Education

• Alma Mater: Sapienza University of Rome
  Master (Laurea) in Physics at the Department of Physics of Sapienza University of Rome
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• PhD (Dottorato di Ricerca) in Physics at the Department of Physics of the University of Perugia;  
  Thesis title: Quantum Dissipative Systems
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Current Position

• Senior researcher in the Chemical Biology Laboratory of the National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics, Tallinn

• Co-starter of the ComplexSimplex   group (2021)

• PI of the project "Learning processes in language dynamics", supported by the Estonian Science Foundation, grant PRG1059 (2021-2025).

Grants and Projects

• PI of the Estonian Research Council grant PUT1356 Dynamics of languages: Models and methods from complex systems theory (2017−2020).

• Investigator in the Estonian Research Council grant IUT39-1 The role of diversity in complex systems (2015−2020).

• Investigator in the Estonian Science Foundation grant ETF9462 Spatio-temporal dynamics of condensed matter, biological and complex systems (2012-2015).

• PI of the Estonian Science Foundation grant ETF7466 Modern methods of statistical physics: applications to diffusion processes in complex systems (2008-2011).

• PI of the project ETF7466 Modern methods of statistical physics: applications to diffusion processes in complex systems (2008-2011), supported by the Estonian Science Foundation.

• PI of the Estonian-French co-operation program "G. F. PARROT" Analysis and modeling of languages and dialects using methods from complex systems theory. Modeling Language & Dialects with Complexity Theory" (2017-2018; French PI Prof. J.L. Leonard, Sorbonne University).

• PI of the joint Research Project under agreement on scientific cooperation between the Polish and Estonian Academy of Science Statistical physics of complex systems of interacting, diffusing, evolving units" (2010-2012; Polish PI: Prof. A. Pekalski, University of Wroclaw).

Previous positions

• Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Tartu.

• Associate/senior researcher at Sapienza University of Rome, Aalto University (Helsinki), Philipps-Universität Marburg, University of Augsburg, Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Physics and Complex Systems (Mallorca).

Other activities

• TNA visit within the SoBigData++ Research Infrastructure, group of Prof. Kimmo Kaski, Summer 2024

• TNA visit within the SoBigData++ Research Infrastructure, group of Prof. Kimmo Kaski, Summer 2023

• Co-organizer of the COMPILA satellites on language dynamics:

  • CompiLa2025 – Complexity in Language, satellite meeting of CCS2025, the Conference of Complex Sytems 2025, September 4, 2025, Siena, Italy

  • CompiLa2024 – Complexity in Language Variation and Change, satellite meeting of CCS2024, the Conference on Complex Systems 2024, September 2-6 2024, Exter, England.

  • CompiLa2023 - Complexity in Language Variation and Change (August 4th) at StatPhys28 conference (August 7-11, 2023), with  Yoshifumi Kawasaki (University of Tokyo, Japan) and David Sanchez (IFISC).

  • CompiLa2022 - Complexity in Language Variation and Change at CCS2022 The Conference of Complex Systems, 2022 October 17-21, Palma de Mallorca", with David Sanchez (IFISC).

• Referee for Phys. Rev. Lett.; Phys. Rev. A; Phys. Rev. E; Physica A; Physica D; Eur. Phys. J. B; Chaos, Solitons & Fractals; FrontiersIn.

Supervisions

• David Navidad Maeso (PhD in Physics, 2023, Tallinn University) Finite-Range Competition And Natural Selection In Dispersal-Structured Populations (Cosupervision with Dr. Els Heinsalu, National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics, and Dr. Astrid Rekker, Tallinn University).

• Gionni Marchetti (post-doc, 2016−June 2021), Topic: "Bayesian Approach to the Naming Game Model"

• Ingel-Brit Parmas (Bachelor, Tartu University, 2019) Searching Turing instabilities in the Abrams-Strogatz model (Cosupervision with Dr. Els Heinsalu, National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics).

• Jens-Kristjan Liivand (Master, Tartu University, 2018), Memory effects in language acquisition and attrition processes (Cosupervision with Dr. Els Heinsalu, National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics, and Prof. Teet Örd, Tartu University).

• Jürgen Rannap (Bachelor, Tartu University, 2017), Mathematical analysis of Numic languages (Cosupervision with Dr. Els Heinsalu, National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics).

• Peter Szelestey (PhD in Physics, 2004, Aalto University), Computational modelling of fracture and dislocations (Cosupervision with Prof. Kimmo Kaski, Aalto University).

Teaching

• "Introduction to Econophysics", TalTech. Autumn 2025

• "Complex Systems and Self-Organization", TalTech. Spring 2025.

• "Introduction to Econophysics", TalTech. Autumn 2024

• "Complex Systems and Self-Organization", TalTech. Spring 2024.

• "Introduction to Econophysics", TalTech. Autumn 2023.

• "Introduction to Econophysics", TalTech. Autumn 2021 (with S. De La Torre).

• "Introduction to Econophysics", TalTech. Autumn 2018 (with J. Kalda).

• "Diversity-Induced Effects in Physics and Complex Systems", lecture at the 2014 EFS Exact Sciences Autumn School, 2014 November 7-9, Nelijärve Puhkekeskuses, Estonia.

• "Models of cultural evolution through space and time", lecture at the 47th Karpacz Winter School "Simple Models for Complex Systems", 2011 February 7-12, Ladek Zdroj, Poland.

• "Introduction to Complex Systems", University of Tartu, September-October 2007. 

• "Research-oriented course in Complex Systems", University of Tartu, November-December 2007. 

• "Econophysics", lecture in the Series of Seminars of Theoretical Physics, University of Tartu, November 2006. 

• "Introduction to Molecular Dynamics", lecture at the Kääriku Estonian Autumn School of Physics, 2004 October 8-10.

• "Research-oriented Graduate Seminar on Complex Systems", Aalto University, Spring 2004 (with Jari Saramäki).