Alessandro Flammini
Faculty Title
Assistant Professor of Informatics
Research Statement
Prof. Flammini graduated at the University of Rome, IT, “La Sapienza,” in May 1993 with a thesis titled “Functional Order Parameters for Infinite Range Spin Glass Models.” Flammini shifted his focus during his doctoral research to the fractal structure of river basins at the International School for Advanced Studies (ISAS) in Trieste, IT, completing his degree in 1996. He continued to work on different aspects of fractal structures in 1997, doing postdoctoral work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and then, from 1998 to 1999 at the University of Cambridge, UK.
Since the end of 1999 he has held a senior research position at ISAS, where his interests moved towards applications of statistical mechanics to biological problems, especially general aspects of protein folding and the study of protein networks. Since January 2003, he has held a joint appointment at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, where he participates in a project aimed at the study of the emergence of knots in DNA.
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