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Tobias Galla

Staff Scientist (`Investigador Científico')

Institute for Cross-disciplinary Physics and Complex Systems (IFISC)
Edifici Instituts Universitaris de Recerca
Campus Universitat de les Illes Balears
07122 Palma de Mallorca
 Spain

Office: 201

email: tobias.galla at ifisc dot uib-csic.es

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I am a staff scientist with the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), and work at the Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Physics and Complex Systems IFISC (CSIC-UIB) in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. My work focuses on the statistical physics of complex systems, in particular stochastic processes, population dynamics and disordered systems. Applications include evolutionary dynamics, stability of complex ecosystems, models of opinion dynamics, language evolution, and stochastic processes in biological systems. 

Selected publications


Breakdown of random-matrix universality in persistent Lotka-Volterra communities

JW Baron, TJ Jewell, C Ryder, T Galla

Physical Review Letters 130 (13), 137401


Geospatial distributions reflect temperatures of linguistic features

H Kauhanen, D Gopal, T Galla, R Bermúdez-Otero

Science Advances 7 (1), eabe6540


Dispersal-induced instability in complex ecosystems

JW Baron, T Galla

Nature Communications 11 (1), 6032


Intrinsic noise in systems with switching environments

PG Hufton, YT Lin, T Galla, AJ McKane

Physical Review E 93 (5), 052119


Complex dynamics in learning complicated games

T Galla, JD Farmer

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 110 (4), 1232-1236


microRNA input into a neural ultradian oscillator controls emergence and timing of alternative cell states

M Goodfellow, NE Phillips, C Manning, T Galla, N Papalopulu

Nature Communications 5 (1), 3399


Intrinsic noise in game dynamical learning

T Galla

Physical Review Letters 103 (19), 198702 


Intrinsic fluctuations in stochastic delay systems: Theoretical description and application to a simple model of gene regulation

T Galla

Physical Review E 80 (2), 021909 


Selected grants (past and present)

MARIA DE MAEZTU award to IFISC (2023-2026)
funded by the Spanish National Research Agency


APASOS (2022-2025)

A PHYSICS APPROACH TO SOCIOTECHNICAL SYSTEMS: FROM THEORY TO DATA ANALYSIS.

funded by the Spanish National Research Agency


PACSS (2019-2022)

PHYSICS APPROACH TO COMPLEXITY IN SOCIOTECHNICAL SYSTEMS

funded by the Spanish National Research Agency


Grand Challenge NetworkPlus in Emergence and Physics Far From Equilibrium (2016-19)

funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (UK)


Forecasting personal health in an uncertain environment (2013-17)

funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (UK)


Resilience and interaction of networks in ecology and economics (RESINEE) (2011-13)

funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (UK)/ERA ComplexityNet


IDEAS Factory - Game theory and adaptive networks for smart evacuations (2010-13)

funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (UK) 


Research Councils UK (RCUK) Fellowship (2007-2012)

funded by Research Councils UK