Lab of Interdisciplinary Physics
@LIPh_Lab
Department of Physics, University of Padova. Our research spans from statistical mechanics to the organization of the brain and ecosystems.
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🧠 Thrilled to announce the 2025 Italian Network of Computational Neuroscience Conference! 📍 Palazzo della Salute, Padova, Italy 📅 September 22–24, 2025 A 3-day deep dive into the brain — from models to data, theory to technology.
🚀 New research alert! 🚀 Led by @jack_bjo @gnicoletti09 @dbusiello1, our latest work in Physical Review Letters (journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/1…) reveals how excitation-inhibition balance tunes the timescale of information coding in neuronal populations! 🧠🔬
#Balanced excitatory and inhibitory neuron activity is crucial for optimal brain #InformationProcessing, enhancing encoding efficiency and stability, according to recent findings in neuroscience. @physrevlett doi.org/g87h5w phys.org/news/2025-03-o…
Open position in our group!
🚨 Postdoc Opportunity! 🚨 Join @LIPh_Lab for a 2-year postdoc on soil microbiome resilience! We combine macroecology, metagenomics & modeling to study how agri-practices & climate stressors shape microbial communities. 🔗 Start by Dec 2025. Ref: sandro dot azaele at unipd dot it
Check out our latest research! We apply the framework of annealed disorder to ecological modeling 👇
PREPRINT OUT 💡 We show how consumer-resource communities with colored-noise fluctuations violate the competitive exclusion principle and give rise to realistic ecological structures arxiv.org/abs/2502.13720
🚨New paper alert! Insights into disordered systems 🌀 What happens when interactions fluctuate in time 🫨 instead of staying fixed 🥶? We explore annealed disorder—a new twist over quenched disorder—in which interactions are stochastic processes... 🔗iopscience.iop.org/article/10.108…
Can a simple stochastic differential equation accurately describe specific features of microbiome growth-rate distribution? The work "Growth-rate distributions of gut microbiota time series", developed with S. Azaele during my visit at @LIPh_Lab, is out: rdcu.be/d67S9
PhD lab meetings are back 🤩 Our Davide @_dzanc presented his latest and hottest research on annealed consumer-resource models. Great work! 👏
Another banger from the lab just published in Physical Review Letters! Check out Samir’s thread below👇
Excited to share latest work of @LIPh_Lab out in @PhysRevLett! We’ve taken a fresh look at ecological community dynamics by extending the generalized Lotka-Volterra (GLV) model to include temporal stochastic fluctuations in species interactions. Link: journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/1… 1/3
Fresh from the lab! Our own Jacopo 🤠 led this very insightful paper on StatPhys x Gut microbiome. Check out the thread below! 👇🧵
📢📢📢 PAPER ALERT📢📢📢 I'm glad to share with y'all my first peer-reviewed paper! I, @SamirSuweis, and our collaborators tried to answer the question: what makes healthy and diseased gut microbiomes different? A thread on our stat.phys. answer 🧵1/n journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/a…
💡LIPh @ Science4All @UniPadova: Davide Bernardi, @alice_doimo and @MarikaSa_ are illustrating complex systems from everyday life 🐟🚗🌳 Stand 57, Piazza Garibaldi, Padova: open today until 19:00, tomorrow from 10:00 to 14:00! #science4all #unipd
💡Research from the lab was just published in Physical Review Letters! Our own Sandro Azaele and Amos Maritan study non-Gaussian disorder in dynamical systems, with applications to ecological modelling: doi.org/10.1103/PhysRe…
PREPRINT OUT 💡 We explore how neutral and non-neutral models describe community patterns observed in strongly perturbed forests ecosystems biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
We're looking for an enthusiastic experimentalist PhD student to join our interdisciplinary group interested in the ecology & evolution of microbial communities unil.ch/mitrilab. Apply tinyurl.com/mu5swnk8 before Aug 31! Bonus: Lausanne is a beautiful place to live!
🚨 A Jacobian geometry induced by general network-driven processes? Yes! Our latest work led by @jack_bjo w/ @oriartime @SamirSuweis @manlius84 introduces the Jacobian distance to unravel how functional organization depends on structure + dynamics! pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… 1/
🚨 NEW PREPRINT 🚨 Happy to share our work with @ada_altieri & @SamirSuweis! We inferred the parameters of the Disordered Generalized Lotka-Volterra (dgLV) model to compare healthy and chronically inflamed gut microbiomes. 🧵A thread 🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2406.07465
On June 13th, 16.30 CEST, @EmanuelePigani will explore delay effects on the stability of large ecosystems, as part of the Young Seminars SIFS series @FIS_STAT Streaming Link: teams.microsoft.com/meet/319871999…
