Speakers

Miguel A. Muñoz is a Full Professor in Physics at the University of Granada (Spain). He is an expert in statistical mechanics and has worked on, among other issues, non-equilibrium phase transitions, critical and collective phenomena and stochastic processes. In particular, he helped develop the theory of ”self-organized criticality” and different approaches towards the study of non-equilibrium phenomena, network theory, and complex systems. His research interests span from fundamental principles of statistical mechanics to interdisciplinary problems in evolutionary biology, theoretical ecology and systems neuroscience.

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Marco Scutari is a Senior Researcher at Istituto Dalle Molle di Studi sull'Intelligenza Artificiale (IDSIA), Switzerland. He has held positions in Statistics, Statistical Genetics and Machine Learning in the UK and Switzerland since completing his Ph.D. in Statistics in 2011. His research focuses on the theory of Bayesian networks and their applications to biological and clinical data, as well as statistical computing and software engineering.

Gino Cattani is Professor of Strategy and Organizations at the Stern School of Business, New York University. He received an M.A. in Management Science and Applied Economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in 2001 and a Ph.D. in Management from Wharton in 2004. His research focuses primarily on creativity, innovation, social network, and social evaluation. In his research, he makes use of a variety of different methods – from historical case studies, to large sample studies, to lab experiments and simulation – to examine the conditions facilitating the generation of novelty (e.g., an idea, product or technology) and how the recognition of this novelty is then shaped by the features of the evaluating social audiences (e.g., peers, critics or users). His research has been published in American Sociological Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Journal, Research Policy, Strategy Science, Industrial and Corporate Change, and Organization Science, where he also served as Senior Deputy Editor. He also serves as Associate Editor at Management Science and Strategic Management Journal, and as Senior Editor at Industrial and Corporate Change. He has been an active member of the Academy of Management Association since 1999.

Alessandro Pluchino is professor of theoretical physics, mathematical methods and models, at the Department of Physics and Astronomy "E.Majorana" of the University of Catania. He is also local coordinator of LINCOLN, an INFN permanent project about complex networks, member of the Complex Systems Society and the Società Italiana di Fisica, and academic editor of several scientific journals, among which PLOSONE, ENTROPY and FRONTIERS IN PHYSICS. His research activity mainly focuses on mathematical and computational models of complex systems, but it also covers fundamental physics, non-equilibrium statistical mechanics, dynamical systems and complex networks, with interdisciplinary applications to biological, geological, ecological, economic and social systems. He is also involved on developing optimization models, with applications to management, engineering, infrastructures, energy and transportations. Author of more than 100 scientific publications, among which several books either for specialistic or interdisciplinary readers, in 2010 he was awarded, with Andrea Rapisarda and Cesare Garofalo, of the Ig-Nobel Prize for Management at Harvard University and MIT. Recently, on September 2022, he received a second Ig-Nobel prize, this time for Economics, again with Andrea Rapisarda and with the economist Alessio Emanuele Biondo.

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