MATTEO PAOLUZZI

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 active and 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.

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)