Giulia Garcia Lorenzana

I recently defended my PhD thesis in Theoretical Physics at École Normale Supérieure and Université Paris Cité, under the supervision of Giulio Biroli and Ada Altieri. I will soon be starting a postdoctoral fellowship at NITMB in Chicago.

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 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.