Pablo Villegas

Curriculum Vitae

Academic profile

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Positions
  • Researcher, Enrico Fermi Center for Study and Research (CREF), Rome (2023– )
  • Postdoctoral Research Associate, CREF, Rome (2022–2023)
  • Postdoctoral Research Associate, Networks Unit, IMT School for Advanced Studies, Lucca (2020–2022)
  • Postdoctoral Research Associate, Institute for Complex Systems (ISC-CNR), Rome (2019–2020)
Education
  • PhD in Physics, University of Granada (2018)
    Advisor: Miguel A. Muñoz
  • MSc in Biomathematics, University of Granada
Selected Publications
  • Nature Physics (2023)Laplacian Renormalization Group for heterogeneous networks
  • Physical Review Letters (2025)Networks with many structural scales: a Renormalization Group perspective
  • Physical Review E (2025)Strange attractors in complex networks
  • Nature Communications (2022)Marginal speed confinement resolves the conflict between correlation and control in natural flocks of birds
  • PNAS (2018)Landau-Ginzburg theory of cortex dynamics

(Full list available on the Publications page.)

Supervision

PhD students (co-supervisor)

  • Giulio Iannelli (CREF, 2022–2025)
  • Gabriele Poidomani (IMT Lucca, 2022– )
  • Lorenzo Grimaldi (CREF, 2023– )
  • Lorenzo Lucarini (CREF, 2024– )
  • Ottavia Falconi (CREF, 2024– )

MSc students

Lorenzo Lucarini · Ottavia Falconi

Grants & Recognition
  • 2020 MSCA Seal of Excellence
  • Participation in national and international funded projects (PRIN, PID2020, ERANET-LAC, PNRR).
Academic Service

Reviewer for: Physical Review Letters · Physical Review X · Nature Communications · Science Advances · and other journals in statistical physics and complex systems.