Giulia Garcia Lorenzana

I am a PhD student in Theoretical Physics between the Disordered Systems group at Laboratoire de Physique de l’École Normale Supérieure and the Theory of Complex Systems group in the Laboratoire de Matière et Systèmes Complexes (Université Paris Cité), under the supervision of Giulio Biroli and Ada Altieri.

I work at the interface between the Statistical Physics of Disordered Systems and Theoretical Community Ecology. On the one hand, systems of interacting species can be studied using the tools developed for randomly interacting spins. On the other hand, the dynamics of ecosystems is characterised by non-equilibrium features that are not found in classical models of disordered systems, such as non-reciprocal interactions and migration. This makes it interesting also from a theoretical point of view.