Orari di ricevimento
Stanza 208 (Fermi), Giovedì 11:30--13:30 con prenotazione via email.
Curriculum
Matteo Paoluzzi has been a research associate at CNR, Sapienza, Syracuse University (USA), and the University of Barcelona (Spain). His research activity, disseminated through more than 40 peer-reviewed papers including high-impact factor journals such as Nature Communications, PNAS, and PRL, focuses on collective behavior in living materials (as biological tissues and dense bacterial suspensions), non-equilibrium phase transitions, and the glass transition in and out of equilibrium. He joined the Physics Department of Sapienza in 2024 as an Associate Professor of Theoretical Physics.
Grants&Awards
2024 Outstanding Referee, American Physical Society.
2024 Outstanding Referee, Royal Society of Chemistry, Soft Matter
2024 IOP Trusted Reviewer
2020 Beatriu de Pinos Fellowship (MSC Cofund), “Collective Behavior in Living Matter”
Referee Activity
APS Journals (PRL, PRE, PRR,...), PNAS, NP Journals (Nature Communications, Scientific Reports, Communications Physics), Soft Matter, Journal of Chemical Physics, SciPost, New Journal of Physics, JSTAT.
Reviewer for International Grants
1. Italian Ministry of University and Research (MUR): reviewer for PRIN and Montalcini Program.
2. Israel Science Foundation (ISF): reviewer for Personal Research Grants.
3. SPI-Fondecyt-Chile.
Conferences/Workshops organization
1. Symposium leader of "Collective behavior in biological tissues" at 9IDMRCS (12-18 August 2023, https://9idmrcs.jp/)
2. Symposium leader of "Collective behavior in biological tissues" at 10IDMRCS ( 20-25 July 2025, https://10idmrcs.com/)
3. CECAM@EPFL, 16-19 September 2025, "Statistical physics of living systems"
Five Representative Publications
1. “Noise-Induced Phase Separation and Time Reversal Symmetry Breaking in Active Field Theories Driven by Persistent Noise”, M Paoluzzi, D Levis, A Crisanti, I Pagonabarraga, Phys. Rev. Lett. 133 (11), 118301
2. “Relation between heterogeneous frozen regions in supercooled liquids and non-Debye spectrum in the corresponding glasses”, M Paoluzzi, L Angelani, G Parisi, G Ruocco, Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 155502 (2019)
3. “Probing the non-Debye low frequency excitations in glasses through random pinning”, L Angelani, M Paoluzzi, G Parisi, G Ruocco, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115 (35), 8700-8704 (2018)
4. “Self-sustained density oscillations of swimming bacteria confined in microchambers”, M Paoluzzi, R Di Leonardo, L Angelani Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 188303 (2015)
5. “Thermodynamic first order transition and inverse freezing in a 3D spin glass”, M Paoluzzi, L Leuzzi, A Crisanti, Phys. Rev. Lett. 104 (12), 120602 (2010)