Statistical Physics of Disordered Systems (SPoDS)

glasses, spin glasses, photonics in random media, analog computing, neural networks

Wireframe surface plot from a numerical simulation of a disordered system

Projects

Current

  • SPoDS — Statistical Physics of Disordered Systems. CNR-funded project, from 2026. Principal investigator: Luca Leuzzi.
  • Complexity, disorder and fluctuations: spin glass physics and beyond (2022LMHTET). PRIN 2022, Italian Ministry of University and Research, 2023–2026. Local principal investigator for CNR.
  • ICSC — National Research Centre for High Performance Computing, Big Data and Quantum Computing, Spoke 6 “Multiscale modelling and engineering applications”. PNRR, from 2022. Investigator.
  • ATOM — Advanced Tomography and Microscopy. Lazio Innova, open research infrastructures, from 2018. Local principal investigator for CNR.

Past

  • NANOPROBE — Innovative endoscopic nano-imaging with machine learning. Lazio Innova, 2020–2024. Investigator.
  • Meccanica Statistica e Complessità. PRIN 2015, 2017–2020. Local principal investigator for CNR.
  • Statistical Mechanics of disordered and complex systems. PRIN 2010–2011, 2013–2016. Local principal investigator for CNR.
  • NETADIS — Statistical Physics Approaches to Networks Across Disciplines. FP7 Marie Curie ITN, 2012–2016. Beneficiary local principal investigator for CNR.
  • Statistical mechanics of disordered granular laser systems: theory and experiments. FIRB Futuro in Ricerca 2008, 2010–2015. Principal investigator.
  • Order in disorder: investigating fundamental mechanisms of inverse transitions. INFM-CNR Seed Grant 2008. Principal investigator.