European Projects
1992-1994 - Contract CEE-SCI CT91 0714 (TSTS)
European project
on Dynamical and Structural Properties of Liquid Water , involving
experimental as well as theoretical groups: Istituto
di Elettronica Quantistica - Firenze (Italy), Rutheford Appleton
Laboratory - Oxford (England), KTH (Sweden) and CISC - Madrid (Spain).
Coordinator: Prof. R. Vallauri (University of Trento - Italy).
1994-1996 - Marie Curie Individual Fellowship No ERBCHBICT941569
European Marie Curie post-doc grant, within the programme
Human Capital & Mobility, on "Multifractal Analysis of
Spatio-Temporal Chaos" carried out in Wuppertal (Germany)
under the supervision of Prof. Dr. P. Grassberger.
1995-1998 - European Network No CHRX CT94 0546
European network denominated
"Complexity and Chaos"
coordinated by Prof. R. Livi (University of Firenze - Italy).
The laboratories involved were Bergische Universitaet - Wuppertal
(Germany), Ecole Normale Superieure - Lyon (France), University
of Madrid and Pamplona (Spain), University of Geneve (Switzerland),
Istitute for Scientific Interchange - Torino (Italy) and University
of Firenze (Italy).
1996-1998 - European Network No CHRX CT94 0460
European network denominated "Stability and Universality
in Classical Mechanics" coordinated by Prof. G. Gallavotti
(University of Rome - Italy) and
involving research groups from Italy, France and Spain.
2000-2004 - European Network HPRN-CT-1999-00163
European Commission Research Training Network
"LOCNET - Localisation by Nonlinearity and Spatial
Discreteness, and Energy Transfer, in Crystals,
Biomolecules and Josephson Arrays"
coordinated by Prof. R.S.MacKay (Warwick University - UK),
involving research groups from Italy, Denmark, France, Germany,
2005-2007 - STREP European Project -- No 12835 - EMBIO (Announcement in PDF)
STREP project within the European "New and Emerging
Science and Technology" Programme denominated
"EMBIO - Emergent organisation in complex biomolecular systems"
coordinated by Prof. R. Glen (University of Cambridge - UK),
involving research groups from Groeningen (The Netherlands),
Goteborg (Sweden), Vienna (Austria), Leipzig, Jena and
Heidelberg (Germany).
2005-2007 - Marie Curie Individual Intra-European Fellowship -- No 011434 - DEAN
Individual Fellowship within the European HRM Activity denominated
"DEAN - Dynamical Entropies in Assemblies of Neurons"
awarded to
Dr. Thomas Kreuz (Germany).
2007-2010 - Marie Curie Outgoing Individual Fellowship -- No 040576 - STDP
Individual Fellowship within the Programme Structuring the ERA - MCA
"STDP - Spike time dependent plasticity"
awarded to
Dr. Thomas Kreuz (Germany).
2012-2016 - Marie Curie Actions - Initial Training Networks -- No 289146 - NETT
Marie Curie FP7-PEOPLE-2011-ITN Project
NETT -- Neural Engineering Transformative Technologies,
coordinated by Prof. S. Coombes (University of Nottingham - UK) and
involving 7 Academic Laboratories
and 10 Private Companies from nine european countries actively involved in research
and development activities on Neural Engineering,
Neuroscience and Computational Neuroscience.
Scientific and management responsible for the ISC-CNR group and Director of
Research for the consortium
2015-2016 - A*Midex Chair of Excellence in Computational Neuroscience
A*Midex Chair of Excellence at University of Marseille (France) involving
CPT, INS and INMED
2016-2017 - Advanced Study Group
Advanced Study Group "From Microscopic to Collective Dynamics in Neural Circuits",
Max-Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden (Germany)
Italian Projects
1998-2000 - Progetto PAIS - INFM
Research project of the National Institute of Condensed Matter (INFM)
"Protein Folding" ,
scientific coordinator prof. Roberto Livi (Univ. Firenze), involving
research groups in Torino, Trieste, Padova and Firenze.
2001-2002 - MURST COFIN 2000
Research project of the Italian Ministry for University and for Research "Chaos and Localization in classical and quantum mechanics"
(MURST) coordinated by Prof. L. Fronzoni (Pisa), involving research groups
in Pisa, Firenze, Como, and Salerno.
2001-2002 - Forum Laboratory - INFM
Research project of the National Institute of Condensed Matter (INFM)
"STADYBIS: Statistical and Dynamical Properties of
Biomolecular Structures",
scientific coordinator prof. Roberto Livi (Univ. Firenze), involving
physicists as well as biologists of the University of Firenze and Pisa.
2002-2005 - FIRB contract n. RBNE01CW3M_001
"Cellular self-organizing nets and chaotic nonlinear dynamics to
model and control complex systems",
scientific coordinator prof. L. Fortuna (University of Catania),
involving italian
research groups from INOA - Firenze, INFM - Palermo,
Politecnico of Milan, STMicroelectronics, Catania ,
University of Catania, University of Firenze,
University of Lecce.
2003-2005 - MURST COFIN 2003
"Order and chaos in non linear extended systems: coherent structure, weak stocasticity
and anomalous transport"
scientific coordinator prof. Giorgio Turchetti (University of Bologna)
duration: 24 months, total financment: 238,000 euros.
2004-2007 - FIRB contract n. RBAU01BZJX
"Dynamical and statistical analysis of biological microsystems",
scientific coordinator prof. Alessandro Pelizzola (Univ. Torino), involving
physicists as well as biologists University of Firenze, Pisa, Padova, Torino and
Genova.
2009-2010 - project # 827 within CNR programme ``Ricerca spontanea a tema libero"
"Cooperative Dynamics in quasi-one dimensional structures"
involving physicists from Firenze and Rome.
2010-2019 - Joint Italian-Israeli Laboratory in Neuroscience
I coordinate from January 2013 the italian section of the recently established
Joint Italian-Israeli Laboratory in Neuroscience, whose sections are located at
the University of Tel Aviv (Israel) and at the Istituto dei Sistemi Complessi in
Sesto Fiorentino (Italy). The responsibles of the israeli section is Prof. E. Ben Jacob.
The funds have been appropriated by the Italian Foreign Ministry.
2012-2015 - quad CRISIS LAB -- PNR 2012-2015
The project concerns interdisciplinary activities along the following
research lines: Complexity, Economy and Financial crisis. The project,
coordinated by Prof. L. Pietronero (University of "La Sapienza" - Rome),
involves ISC-CNR and the Institute for Advanced Studies in Lucca.
I am the local responsible for the activity at
ISC-CNR in Sesto Fiorentino.