ZAPPERI STEFANO

Academic degrees:
1998 Ph. D. in Physics, Boston University
1994 Laurea in Physics, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy

Professional positions:
2015-present Full Professor of Theoretical Physics of Matter, University of Milano, Italy
2010-2015 Senior Researcher (tenured) CNR-IENI, Milano, Italy
2008-2009 Researcher (tenured) CNR- INFM, S3, Univ. Modena Reggio Emilia, Italy
2000-2007 Researcher (tenured) INFM, SMC, Univ. Roma “La Sapienza”, Italy
1998-1999 Postdoctoral fellow, ESPCI, Paris, France.
1995-1997 Research assistant, Boston University, USA
1994-1995 Teaching fellow, Boston University, USA

Other appointments:
2015-present Coordinator, Center for Complexity & Biosystems, University of Milano, Italy
2012-2017 Research leader, ISI Foundation, Torino, Italy
2007-2011 Associate research scientist, ISI Foundation, Torino, Italy

Awards and honors:
2018 Humboldt Research Award, The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
2015 Fellow of the American Physical Society
2015-2020 Elected member of the Council, Complex Systems Society
2015-2018 Elected member of the Executive Committee, Complex Systems Society
2015-2018 Chairman of the Steering Committee, Conference on Complex Systems
2014-2018 Finland Distinguished Professor, Academy of Finland
2004 Marie Curie Excellence Award, EU (personal award of 50000€).
1997 Materials Research Society, Graduate Student Award
1995 Boston University, Goldhaber Prize

Visiting positions:
2019-2020 Visiting professor, LMU Munich and FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
07/2018 Visiting scientist, the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel.
04/2017 Visiting researcher, CNRS, ENS Lyon, France
08/2015 Visiting Scientist, Cornell University, USA
01/2015 Visiting scientist, the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel.
07/2014 Visiting professor, UPMC, Paris, France
07/2013 Visiting professor, Aalto University, Finland
08/2013 Visiting scientist, Cornell University, USA
07-08/2011 Visiting scientist, Cornell University, USA
07-08/2010 Visiting scientist, Cornell University, USA
07/2009 Visiting scientist, Cornell University, USA
06-08/2008 Visiting scientist, Harvard University, USA
06-08/2007 Visiting scholar, Boston College, USA
09/2006 Visiting professor, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
10/2005 Visiting fellow, KITP, University of California Santa Barbara, USA
02/2002, 12/1999 Visiting professor, UFC, Fortaleza, Brazil


Funding and grants:

Research grants:
2018-2020 PI: Italian-Israel cooperation grant (MAECI), DISORDER, with I. Procaccia, the Weizmann Institute of Science (100,000€)
2012-2018 PI: European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant 2011, “Size effects in fracture and plasticity” (grant of 2,500,000€ for 5 years).
2013-2014 PI: CNR Flagship project, La Fabbrica del Futuro, “Surface Nano‐structured Coating for Improved Performance of Axial Piston Pumps SNAPP” (50,000€)
2014 PI: CNR Flagship project,, La Fabbrica del Futuro, “Customized Heat exchanger with Improved Nano-coated surface for earth moving machines Applications (CHINA) (26,500€)
2013-2016 Co-PI: Materials World Network: Cooperative Activity in Materials Research between US Investigators and their Counterparts Abroad (MWN), NSF-CNR 09/2013-08/2016, with J. P. Sethna (Cornell), Materials World Network: Crackling noise (180,000€).
2011-2012 Coordinator: ERANET-Complexity pilot project, LOCAT “Localizing signatures of catastrophic failures”, with 3 EU partners, total grant of 500,000€.
2010-2011 PI of the italian PRIN 2008 project “Tribology of nanoclusters”, 64,000€.
2007-2009 Coordinator of STREP in the EU NEST Pathfinder initiative, TRIGS “Triggering of instabilities in materials and geosystems”, with six EU partner, total grant of 1,700,000€.
2000-2002 PI: PAIS project, INFM, “Hysteresis in disordered ferromagnets” 38,000€
Organization grants:
2012 Grant from CECAM (Centre Européen de Calcul Atomique et Moléculaire) for the workshop on Computational Physics Methods for Cancer, Lausanne, Switzerland June 27-29, 2012 (with C. La Porta) (14400 CHF).
2012 Grant for European Science Foundation: Exploratory Workshop 2012: Physics of cancer Varenna 13-15 September 2012 (29 founded project on 250) (with C. La Porta) (14000€).
2006 Grant for ESF- Exploratory Workshop 2006: “Crackling noise”, 14000€.
2002 Grant from ESF network SPHYNX for the workshop on “Depinning transition” 22000€
2001 Grant from VolkswagenStiftung for the workshop on “Statistical mechanics of plasticity”
20000€

Technology transfer

2019-2020 Proof-of Concept grant, METADESIGN, from the Eurupean Research Council (150,000€)
2018-present Co-founder and member of the governing board of the startup “Complexdata S.R.L”.
Complexdata was the winner of the G-Factor competition from Fondazione Golinelli,
winner of the Startup 4.0 prize and finalist in other business competitions.
2017 Research contract from Samsung Design Europe on “Auxetic metamaterials” (25,000€)


Professional activities:

2016-present Member of the editorial board of Physical Biology
2003-present Member of the editorial board of Journal of Statistical Mechanics (JSTAT).
2013-present Member of the Complex Systems Society,
1994-1997, 2008-present Member of the American Physical Society (USA).
2007 Guest Editor European Physics Journal B, for the proceeding of Statphys 23,
1994-1998 Member of the Materials Research Society (USA).


Referee for grant proposals for ANR (France), INSERM (France), NSF (USA), Hungarian Academy of Science (Hungary), Alberta Ingenuity Funds (Canada), Swiss Nat. Sci. Found. (CH), European Science Foundation, European Research Council.

Conference organization:

Organization:
2019 Director of the Third Summer School on “Advances in Complex Systems: from ecology to economics”, Lake Como School of Advanced Studies, Como Italy, July 22-26 2019 (with J. P. Bouchaud and C. La Porta).
2018 Organizer of the workshop: “Physicists working on cancer” Weizmann Institute of Science July 1-12 2018, Rehovot, Israel 2017 (with E. Domany, H. Levine and C. La Porta).
2017 Director of the Second Summer School on “Advances in Complex Systems”, Lake Como School of Advanced Studies, Como Italy, July 3-7 2017, (with M. J. Alava, C. La Porta and A. Vespignani)
2015 Director of the Summer School on “Advances in Complex Systems”, Lake Como School of Advanced Studies, Como Italy, June 29, July 3 2015, (with M. J. Alava, C. La Porta and A. Vespignani)
2012 Organizer of the European Science Foundation: Exploratory Workshop 2012: Physics of cancer, Varenna 13-15 September 2012 (with C. A, M. La Porta)
2012 Organizer of the CECAM (Centre Européen de Calcul Atomique et Moléculaire) workshop: Computational Physics Methods for Cancer, Lausanne, Switzerland June 27-29, 2012 (with C. A. M. La Porta)
2008 Organizer of the Symposium on “Statistical methods for materials deformation and failure", in “Multiscale Material Modeling 2008", Talahassee, USA, 27-31 October 2008 (with M. J. Alava, I. Groma, M.-C. Miguel).
2007 STATPHYS 23, Genova, July 2007 (Conference Secretary)
2006 Organizer of the Symposium on “Statistical approaches to irreversible deformation and failure of materials", in “Multiscale Material Modeling 2006", Freiburg, D, 18-22 September 2006 (with M. J. Alava, H. J. Herrmann, M. Zaiser).
2006 Organizer of the ESF Exploratory Workshop on "Crackling Noise", IEN, Torino 24-27 May 2006 (with G. Durin).
2004 Organizer of the Workshop on “Depinning transitions in disordered media: theory and applications", Nordita, Copenhagen DK, 22-24 April 2004 (with M. J. Alava).
2002 Director of the Research Workshop on "Statistical Mechanics of Plastic Deformation”, ICTP, Trieste 4-7 march 2002 (with E. Aifantis, A. El Azab, P. Haener, H. Neuhauser, A. Vespignani).
2002 Organizer of the Workshop on Statistical aspects of hysteresis, Roma, 4-6 April 2002 (with G. Durin).

Membership in scientific advisory committees:
2019 Italian Conference on Complex Systems, (1-3 7 2019, Trento Italy).
2015 Conference on Unsolved Problems On Noise - UPON 2015 (2015, Barcelona)
2014 Program on “Avalanches, intermittency, and nonlinear response in far-from-equilibrium solids” at KITP (2014, Santa Barbara, USA)
2012 Conference on Unsolved Problems On Noise - UPON 2012 (2012, Calcutta, India)
Conference on Unsolved Problems On Noise - UPON 2008 (2008, Lyon. France)
2005 ICSMPR (2005, Bangalore, India).
2004 XIX Sitges Conference on Statistical Mechanics (2004, Sitges, Spain)



Selected invited talks and lectures:

Selected invited talks at international conferences:
1. Earthflow workshop on “Complexity in Solid Earth and Geophysical Flows”, Oslo 19-20 June 2019, opening keynote “Atomic scale frictional fronts”.
2. CECAM Workshop “Emergence of surface and interface structure from friction, fracture and deformation”, Lausanne – CH 24-27 July 2018 “Atomic-Scale Front Propagation at the Onset of Frictional Sliding”
3. 9th Nordic Workshop on Statistical Physics: Biological, Complex and Non-Equilibrium Systems, 21-23 March 2018 “How glasses break”.
4. Workshop on Physicists working on Cancer, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, 1-12 July 2018. “Tackling phenotypic plasticity in Cancer” (with C. La Porta)
5. Second International Conference on exaptation and inverse question-driven innovation, 26-28 April 2018 Palazzo Feltrinelli, Lake Garda, Italy. “Exaptation for the good and the bad: regeneration and cancer” (with C. La Porta)
6. The 20th European Conference on Mathematics for industry, Budapest, Hungary 18-22 June 2018 “Integrative analysis of pathway deregulation in obesity”.
7. CECAM-Node workshop on Phase Transformations and Plasticity in Crystals: Atomistic to Continuum Models”, Milano 3-4 September 2018. “Excitation spectra in crystal plasticity.”
8. Cell Physics 2017, Saarbrucken, Germany 11-13 October 2017. “Tackling cell deformation, division and migration by a combination of experiments and computational models” (with C. La Porta)
9. 4th Mini-Symposium on Bioimage Informatics, Rennes, France, 27 June 2017. “Bursts of activity in collective cell migration”
10. Congresso Nazionale SIF, Trento 13 September 2017, “Bursts of activity in collective cell migration”
11. Multiscale Materials Modeling October 9-14 2016, Dijon, France, Plenary talk “Size effects in fracture and plasticity”
12. Statphys 26, Lyon, July 18-22 2016. Invited talk “Size effects in fracture and plasticity”
13. Summer School on Advanced in Complex Systems, Lake Como School of Advanced Studies, Como Italy, June 29-July 3 2015. Talk on “Size effects in fracture”.
14. Workshop on Statistical Mechanics of forms and shapes” 27—30 May 2015, Mariehamn, Åland. Talk on “Deformation and fracture of graphene”
15. COMP Full Day seminar, Espoo, Finland, 24 February 2015, Plenary talk “Tackling fluctuations in materials and biosystems”
16. CLINAM 2014 Basel, June 23-25 2014. Invited talk on “Population dynamics of cancer stem cells”.
17. European Conference on Complex Systems, Barcelona, Spain 16-20 September 2013. Keynote Speaker “Crackling noise: the sound of complex systems”.
18. SES 50th Annual Technical Meeting and ASME-AMD Annual Summer Meeting Providence, USA, July 28 - 31 2013, Keynote contribution to the symposium on Slip avalanches in amorphous plasticity.
19. DPG Spring Meeting, Regensburg, Germany 10-15 March 2013. Invited talk “Elasticity and disorder for fractuere size effects”
20. Aspen Center for Physics, workshop on Large Fluctuations and Collective Behavior in Solids, Aspen (USA) July 29-Aug 19 2012. “Size effect in fracture and plasticity”.
21. American Physical Society, March meeting, Boston (USA) Feb. 27-March 2 2012, “Avalanches and Clusters in crack front propagation”.
22. Keynote Lecture, Workshop on Rapid Mass Movements, Monte Verità, Ascona, CH, April 11-15 2010 “Triggering frictional slip”
23. Joint ICTP-FANAS Conference on Trends in Nanotribology, Trieste, Italy 19-24 10 2009. “Triggering frictional slip”
24. 22nd General Conference of the Condensed Matter Division of the European Physical Society, Roma, Italy 2008 “Dislocation Avalanches, Strain Bursts, and the Problem of Plastic Forming at the Micrometer Scale”
25. 8th Multimat Workshop, Roma, Italy 2008. “Dislocation Avalanches, Strain Bursts, and the Problem of Plastic Forming at the Micrometer Scale”
26. Conference on size effects and scaling in fracture, Monte Verità, Ascona, Switzerland 2008. “Role of disorder in the size scaling of material strength”.
27. Workshop on Fluctuations and Scaling in Materials, Todi, Italy, 2007. “Role of disorder in the size scaling of materials strength”
28. Workshop on complex systems, Barcelona, Spain, 2007, “Vortex polycrystals in type II superconductors”.
29. The 11th International Workshop on Vortex Matter, Wroclaw, Poland, 2006. "Vortex polycrystals in type II superconductors".
30. Workshop on Statistical Physics in Mechanics, Grasse, France, 2006. "Crack morphology in two dimensions"
31. Program on: From the Atomic to the Tectonic: Friction, Fracture and Earthquake Physics. KITP Santa Barbara, 2005. "Inertial Effects in Crackling Noise: From Magnets to Granular Media"
32. GDR: Systemes elastiques: du Desordre a la Plasticite, Vogue, France, 2005. "Grain boundaries in vortex matter".
33. ICF XIX, International conference on Fracture, Torino, March 2005. "Crack roughness and avalanche precursors in the random fuse model"
34. Ecole Thematique CNRS, Systemes complexes en Astrophysique : L'emergence de structures en milieux dilues. Chateau de Goutelas 2004. Series of lectures on "Self-organized criticality".
35. XIX SITGES CONFERENCE on Statistical Mechanics, Sitges, Spain 2004. "Jamming and depinning of interacting dislocations"
36. LAWNP 03, Salvador, Brasil, 2003 "Non-linear vortex diffusion and flux-front invasion in disordered type II superconductors"
37. Invited Lecture, Plasticity 03, Quebec, Canada, 2003. "Depinning of a dislocation pileup"
38. GDR: Systemes elastiques: du Desordre a la Plasticite, Carcassonne, France, 2002. "Collective dynamics of dislocations"
39. Workshop on Disordered systems at low temperatures and their topological properties, Helsinki, Finland 2002, "Collective dynamics of dislocations"
40. Horizons on complex systems, Messina, Italia, 2001, "Statistical models for acoustic emission"
41. JEMS'01 (Joint European Magnetic Symposia EMMA-MRM), Grenoble, France, 2001, "Microscopic foundations of the Rayleigh law of hysteresis"
42. EURESCO conference on Plasticity of Materials, Acquafredda di Maratea, Italy, 2000, "Complex dynamics of dislocation systems".
43. International Workshop on on Scaling in Disordered Systems, ESPCI, Paris, Francia, 2000, "Planar cracks in the fuse model"
44. Workshop on SOC and phase transitions, ICTP, Trieste, Italia, 2000, "Driving modes in avalanching systems"
45. Workshop on nonequilibrium dynamic systems, Porto, Portugal, 1999, "Driving and dissipation in avalanche transport phenomena"
46. VIII Workshop on computational material science, S. Margherita di Pula, Sardegna, 1998, "The Barkhausen eect: A new perspective for an old problem"
47. Conference on the Dynamics of Complexity, ICTP, Trieste, Italy, 1997, "Dynamics of a ferromagnetic domain wall and the Barkhausen effect".

International schools and Ph.D/M. D. programs

1. Summer School: From nonlinear Physics to Biology and Medicine, Cargèse, Corsica (France) 9-21 July 2012.
2. Joint Master on Computational and Applied Physics, Technical University of Catalonia (UPC)/University of Barcelona (UB), Spain.Lectures on “Elasticity and disorder”. Feb 16-19, 2010.
3. IGERT program, Cornell University, Lecture on “Dislocation avalanches” Nov. 17-20, 2009.
4. Ph. D. school in Physics, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland, Lectures on “Depinning Transition”, 2006.
5. Summer school CNRS, Complex systems in Astrophysics, Chateau de Goutelas, France. Lectures on "Self-organized criticality". Sep. 23-26, 2004
6. Ph. D. school in Physics, Federal University of Cearà, Brasil. Lectures on “Hysteresis”. Feb 15-28, 2002.

Seminars in Universities
During my career I was invited to give lectures, seminars and colloquia at a large number of institutions including (in the last 10 years): Aalto University, Boston College, Cornell University, ETH Zurich, Harvard University, Leiden University, North Carolina State University, Northeastern University, SISSA Trieste, Politecnico di Milano, University of Barcelona, University of Luxembourg, University North Carolina, University of Parma, University of Rome, University of Edinburgh, University of Montpellier, University of Syracuse, Weizmann Institute of Science.


Teaching and services:

Courses and teaching activities:
 Master course on “Advanced Biophysics”, Università degli Studi di Milano 2019
 Master course on “Physics of Proteins”, Università degli Studi di Milano 2016-2018
 Bachelor course on “Introduction to Statistical Physics”, Università degli Studi di Milano 2016-2019
 Bachelor course on “Mathematical methods for physics”, Università degli Studi di Milano 2015
 Master course on “Statistical Mechanics”, Università degli Studi di Milano 2015/16
 Master course on “Biophysics”, Università degli Studi di Milano, 2014-2019
 Training course on “Statistical data analysis”, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, 2008
 Graduate course on “Statistical mechanics”, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, 2008
 Graduate course on “Physics of complex materials”, Univ. Roma “La Sapienza” 2006
 Graduate course on “Theory of Elasticity”, Univ. Roma “La Sapienza”, 2003
 Graduate course on “Theory of Elasticity”, Univ. Roma “La Sapienza”, 2002
 Grader, Statistical Mechanics, Boston University 1997
 Teaching fellow, Modern physics (1 semester), Environmental physics (1 semester), Boston University 1994-1995

Member of Habilitation committee:
 Paolo Moretti, FAU Erlangen-Nurenberg, Germany 2016
 Carlo Bianca, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France 2015
 Stephane Santucci, Ecole Normale Superieure, Lyon, France 2014

External member in Ph.d thesis committees :
 F. P. Landes (Université Paris-Sud, 2014)
 A. Dobrinevski (Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France, 2013)
 G. Mourot (Université de Bordeaux, France, 2007)
 P. Moretti (University of Edinburgh, UK, 2006),
 F. Lahaie (Université de Grenoble, France, 2000),
 A. Alencar (UFC, Fortaleza, Brazil, 1999).

Supervision of students and postdocs:
 Advisor of “Laurea triennale” (Bachelor) students:
• E. Distante (2007); Univ. Milano
• M. Vodret (2016); Univ. Milano
• B. Raciti (2019); Univ. Milano
 Advisor of “Laurea” (Master) students:
• P. Moretti (2003); Univ. Roma “La Sapienza”
• M. Minozzi (2001); Univ. Roma “La Sapienza”
• L. Dante (2001); Univ. Roma “La Sapienza”
• M. Baraldi (2012); Univ. Milano.
• G. Fatti (2016); Univ. Milano
• M. Hoferer (2017) LMU Munich/Univ. Milano
• B. Spelta (2019); Univ. Milano
 Advisor of Ph. D. students:
• L. Ravazzano (2018-2020) Univ. Milano
• C. Manzato (2008-2010); Univ. Modena e Reggio Emilia. Presently postdoctoral fellow Aalto University (Finland)
• F. Leoni (2006-2008); Univ. Roma “La Sapienza”, Presently postdoctoral fellow, Tel Aviv University.
• B. Cerruti (2003-2006); Univ. Roma “La Sapienza” , Presently research associate at Institute for Cancer Research and Treatment, Torino (Italy)
 Supervision of postdoctoral fellows:
• S. Bonfanti (2016-present) University of Milano
• F. Font-Clos (2015-present) University of Milano
• C. Pedersen (2015-2017) Aalto University, presently postdoc at University of Innsbruck
• O. Chepizhko (2015-2017) Aalto University, presently postdoc at University of Innsbruck
• P. Jana (2015-2017) Aalto University, presently postdoc at Université Libre de Bruxelles.
• A. L. Sellerio (2013-2016) Univ. Milano.
• C. Negri (2013-2016) Univ. Milano. Presently tenured researcher at UniResearch Bergen, Norway
• G. Costantini (2012-2017) Univ. Milano.
• Z. Budrikis (2012-2017) ISI, Torino. Presently editor at Nature.
• A. Taloni (2011-2016) Univ. Milano. Presently tenured researcher at CNR, Roma.
• Z. Bertalan (2012-2015) ISI, Torino, presently developer at Medizinkraft, Vienna.
• U. Salman (2013-2014) CNR, Milano, presently researcher at CNRS, Paris.
• D. Vilone (2012-2013) CNR, Milano, Presently postdoctoral fellow, CNR Roma.
• A. Benassi (2011-2012) CNR, Milano. Presently research associate, TU Dresden.
• L. Laurson (2009-2010);ISI, Torino. Academy fellow, Aalto University.
• A. Mughal (2008-2009); ISI, Torino. Presently tenured lecturer Aberystwyth University(UK).
• R. Capozza (2008-2009); CNR-INFM, Modena. Presently postdoctoral fellow at SISSA
• V. Beato (2006-2009); CNR-INFM, Roma. Presently employed at Deep Blue consulting and research (Italy).
• A. Baldassarri (2003-2004); INFM, Roma. Presently tenured researcher at CNR-ISC, Roma (Italy).
• F. Colaiori (2002-2003); INFM Roma. Presently tenured researcher at CNR-ISC Roma, (Italy).