Guido Caldarelli (born in Rome on April 8, 1967) is an Italian physicist (statistical physics) and associate professor at INFM-CNR.
Education and Positions
Caldarelli received his Ph.D. from SISSA, after which he was a postdoc in the Department of Physics and School of Biology, University of Manchester . He then worked at the Theory of Condensed Matter Group, University of Cambridge, where he worked with Robin Ball and stayed in Wolfson College. He returned to Italy as a lecturer and now holds his current position above. In this period he also spent some terms at University of Fribourg (Switzerland) and in 2006 he has been visiting professor at Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris.
Research
The activity of Caldarelli is mainly focused on scale-free networks, complex-networks and systems biology. He has been coordinator of the European project COSIN
He has published numerous papers in physics and interdisciplinary journals. His work on beauty and the stable marriage problem was widely reported in the press.
Collaborators and Research Activity
One of the most recent activities regards the study of weighted networks and the role of temperature together with Sebastian E. Ahnert, Diego Garlaschelli and Thomas Fink.
Book
Caldarelli was commissioned to write a book on complex networks by Oxford University Press. It has not yet been published.