About

Angelo Valleriani

What drives me

I am a theoretical physicist turned into a multidisciplinary scientist. Curiosity and the love for mathematical methods has brought me to work on very different topics, from which I take inspiration for my classes.

Current topics of research are related to malaria, cancer, bones, and gene expression. In the past I have been working on theoretical particle physics, ecology and evolutionary modeling, physical chemistry, theoretical biophysics, network theory.

From early on, I have been also teaching. I always taught out of my personal inspiration and only topics I was interested in. Indeed, my job as a researcher does not include any compulsory teaching. The reason why I am teaching is that I like it, it is a very interesting form of learning and focusing on topics of my own interest. I taught mostly about stochastic modeling, which is a very flexible and fascinating mathematical methodology strongly related to statistical physics.

Now my current focus in teaching is applied statistics. The reason I like this topic is that it merges both the theoretical part of understanding the role of randomness, the mathematical treatment of the randomness, and the experimental detail that starts ideally with the design of an experiment.

For the way my brain is wired up, I tend to focus on the mathematics behind the methods. But I understand that when teaching, it is good to leave many details away and focus on intuition. People interested in the mathematical details will have to go through the books one step at a time.
I teach statistics classes at professional level within the scope of my job. There, the people attending the courses have already some previous knowledge and they have also some application in mind.

The courses offered here, instead, are not a replacement and not a copy of those provided at the professional level. Here, I try to help researchers in strong need for a quick start or a quick overview of the many classical methods in statistics. The courses are particularly suited to experimental young researchers in biology and other natural sciences.

Resume

Since Nov. 2000

Group leader at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces

Nov. 1998

Visiting Scientist in the Theory Division of the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Golm, Germany

Nov. 1996

Visiting Scientist for two years at the Max Planck Institute for Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden, Germany

Oct. 1996

Ph.D. Degree in High Energy Physics at SISSA (Trieste, Italy); Thesis Supervisor: Dr. G. Mussardo
Thesis Title: Form Factors and Correlation Functions

Feb. 1993

Start one year compulsory military service as Civil Service

Nov. 1992

Admitted, as best qualified after exam, to the Ph.D. course in High Energy Physics at SISSA (Trieste, Italy)

July 1992

Laurea Degree in Theoretical Physics at the University of Bologna with full marks and honours.
Thesis Supervisors: Prof. R. Soldati and Dr. F. Ravanini
Thesis Title: Conformal Invariance, Renormalization Group and Integrable Models in Two-Dimensional Quantum Field Theories

July 1985

Scientific Lycée Degree with full marks

Resume

Since Nov. 2000

Group leader at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces

Nov. 1998

Visiting Scientist in the Theory Division of the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Golm, Germany

Nov. 1996

Visiting Scientist for two years at the Max Planck Institute for Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden, Germany

Oct. 1996

Ph.D. Degree in High Energy Physics at SISSA (Trieste, Italy); Thesis Supervisor: Dr. G. Mussardo
Thesis Title: Form Factors and Correlation Functions

Feb. 1993

Start one year compulsory military service as Civil Service

Nov. 1992

Admitted, as best qualified after exam, to the Ph.D. course in High Energy Physics at SISSA (Trieste, Italy)

July 1992

Laurea Degree in Theoretical Physics at the University of Bologna with full marks and honours.
Thesis Supervisors: Prof. R. Soldati and Dr. F. Ravanini
Thesis Title: Conformal Invariance, Renormalization Group and Integrable Models in Two-Dimensional Quantum Field Theories

July 1985

Scientific Lycée Degree with full marks

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