Professor Luca Giuggioli
B.Sc.(Milan), Ph.D.(New Mexico)
Current positions
Professor of Complexity Sciences
School of Engineering Mathematics and Technology
Contact
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Research interests
My general interest is thetheoretical development of models of moving and inetracting entities, from animals and molecules to more abstract objects such as random walkers. In the context of animals, I work in the area of movemnt ecology.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Spatial propagation in complex networks: a random walk approach
Principal Investigator
Description
Bristol 'Next Generation' Visiting Researcher award by Dr Chittaranjan Hens from Center for Computational Natural Sciences and Bioinformatics at the International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, IndiaManaging organisational unit
School of Engineering Mathematics and TechnologyDates
01/10/2024 to 12/11/2024
Preparing for War
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Department of Engineering MathematicsDates
01/10/2022 to 30/09/2025
Preparing for War
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Engineering Mathematics and TechnologyDates
01/10/2022 to 30/09/2025
8032 BB/T012196/1 Quantifying interaction in moving animals
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Engineering Mathematics and TechnologyDates
01/10/2020 to 21/02/2023
Quantifying interaction in moving animals
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Department of Engineering MathematicsDates
01/10/2020 to 21/08/2022
Thesis supervisions
Publications
Recent publications
01/01/2025Collective Foraging and Behavioural Heterogeneity in Ants: First-Passage Statistics with Heterogeneous Walkers on a Honeycomb Lattice
Mathematics of movement: an interdisciplinary approach to mutual challenges in animal ecology and cell biology
Local time statistics and permeable barrier crossing
Physical Review Research
Multi-target search in bounded and heterogeneous environments: a lattice random walk perspective
Target Search Problems
Lattice Random Walk Dynamics with stochastic resetting in heterogeneous space
Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical
Persistent and anti-persistent motion in bounded and unbounded space
New Journal of Physics
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