Giulia Garcia Lorenzana

I am a postdoctoral fellow at NITMB in Chicago. I am part of the Vitelli Group and Doiron Lab at the University of Chicago.

I work at the interface between the Statistical Physics of Disordered Systems and complex biological systems, ranging from Theoretical Community Ecology to Neuroscience. On the one hand, systems of interacting species or neurons can be studied using the tools developed for randomly interacting spins. On the other hand, biological dynamics are characterised by non-equilibrium features that are not found in classical models of disordered systems, such as non-reciprocal interactions and migration. This makes their study intriguing also from the point of view of Theoretical Physics.

I obtained my PhD thesis in Theoretical Physics at École Normale Supérieure and Université Paris Cité, under the supervision of Giulio Biroli and Ada Altieri.