Catalogo dei Corsi di studio

Dr Chiara Cammarota,
Associate Professor in the Department of Physics of La Sapienza, University of Rome

Studies at La Sapienza, University of Rome:
09/2001-11/2004 BSc in Physics cum laude
11/2004-10/2006 Master in Theoretical Physics cum laude
11/2006-10/2009 Ph.D. Student, Physics Department
02/2009-03/2009 Visitor at INIFTA, La Plata, Argentina
02/2010 PhD Thesis discussion, Physics

Post-Doc research activity:
11/2009-11/2010 Post-Doc at the Institut de Physique Théorique (IPhT) - CEA - Saclay
11/2010-12/2011 Post-Doc CNRS at Institut de Physique Théorique (IPhT) - CEA - Saclay
12/2011-03/2013 Post-Doc ERC NPRG-Glass project at LPTMC Jussieu - Paris VI
04/2013-09/2015 Research Fellow at La Sapienza , University of Rome (Physics Department) - Italy

Academic appointments:
09/2015-08/2019 Lecturer at King s College London (Mathematics Department) - UK
09/2019-08/2020 Senior Lecturer at King s College London (Mathematics Department) - UK
09/2020-present Associate Professor at La Sapienza , University of Rome (Physics Department) - Italy

Teaching experience (acronyms used: UG Undergraduate, PG Postgraduate, TA Teaching Assistant, KCL King s College London, IPhT Institut de physique théorique, CEA Commissariat à l'énergie atomique):
2007-2008 TA to UG Computational Physics Laboratory (30 hours), at La Sapienza (Physics)
2008-2009 TA to UG Computational Physics Laboratory (30 hours), at La Sapienza (Physics)
2012 Masterclass Random Pinning Glass Transitions (6 hours) at IPhT, CEA Saclay
2013-2014 Lecturer of UG course Computational Physics Laboratory (30 hours), at La Sapienza (Physics)
2014-2015 Lecturer of UG course Computational Physics Laboratory (30 hours), at La Sapienza (Physics)
2015-2016 Lecturer of UG/PG course Mathematical Biology (35 hours) and PG course Advanced Topics: Aging Dynamics (6 hours) at KCL (Mathematics)
2016-2017 Lecturer of UG/PG course Mathematical Biology (35 hours), PG course Advanced Topics: Aging Dynamics (6 hours) and Masterclass Glassy dynamics, a thermodynamic description (6 hours) at KCL (Mathematics)
2017-2018 Lecturer of UG/PG course Mathematical Biology (35 hours) and PG course Advanced Topics: Aging Dynamics (6 hours) at KCL (Mathematics)
2018-2019 Lecturer of UG course Intermediate Dynamics (35 hours) and PG course Advanced Topics: Aging Dynamics (6 hours) at KCL (Mathematics)
2019-2020 Lecturer of UG/PG course Mathematical Biology (35 hours) and PG course Research Methods and Advanced Topics in Complex Systems (12 hours) at KCL (Mathematics)
2020-2021 TA to UG Computational Physics Laboratory (60 hours) at La Sapienza (Physics) and Lecturer of UG course Physics 1 (90 hours) at La Sapienza (Chemistry)
2 PhD students as first supervisor, 1 PhD student as second supervisor and ~13 master projects.

Administration tasks and duties:
2013-2015 Organiser of the Statistical Mechanics Seminars (SMS) and Group Discussions (NOAU) Member of Consiglio di Dipartimento , Consiglio Didattico , and Consiglio di Facoltà , at La Sapienza
2015-2020 PhD Admission Tutor of Disordered Systems Group, Dept. of Mathematics KCL
2016-2017 Member of the Athena SWAN Self Assessment Team, Dept. of Mathematics KCL
2016-2018 Deputy Exam Board Chair of the MSc Complex Systems Modelling, KCL
2017-2020 Member of the Equality and Diversity Committee, Dept. of Mathematics KCL
2019-2020 Exam Board Chair of the MSc Complex Systems Modelling, KCL
2020-present Member of Consiglio di Dipartimento , Consiglio Didattico , Consiglio di Facoltà , Member of the committee responsible of Percorsi di Eccellenza for UG and PG students, Member of the Human Resources Strategy for Researchers (HRS4R) at La Sapienza, Member of the Academic Board of "Dottorato Nazionale in Intelligenza Artificiale" (ciclo XXXVII)

Society memberships, additional titles and research funding:
2011 Eligibility to become Researcher of third level at CNR, Italy (Idoneità CNR)
2014-2015 Sapienza Atheneum Fund for research (value 12 000 EUR)
2016 King s Worldwide Partnership Fund (value 2 000 GBP)
2017 Fellow of the British Higher Education Academy
2018 Eligibility to become Associate Professor in Theoretical Physics (Abilitazione Nazionale)
2016-present Affiliate investigator of the Simons Collaboration Cracking the Glass Problem (https://scglass.uchicago.edu) (value 10 000 000 USD)
2022-present Sapienza Atheneum Fund for research (value 14 600 EUR)

Research Interests:
Dr Chiara Cammarota mainly focuses on theoretical physics approaches to the study of disordered systems. She works on disordered materials such as glass formers, developing classical statistical mechanics tools and dynamical approaches to face the challenges peculiar to the description of glassy dynamics. She also investigates similar phenomenology arising in other realizations of disordered systems, such as ecological systems, models of opinion formation in modern societies, inference problems and machine learning applications.

Publications:
39 papers on international scientific journals and conference proceedings (mostly for top-rated conferences on Machine Learning).
In particular 3 Physical Review X (IF: 14.4), 1 PNAS (IF: 9.5), 5 Physical Review Letter (IF: 8.8), 1 SciPost Physics (IF: 5.05), 4 Physical Review B (IF: 3.8), 1 New Journal of Physics (IF: 3.6), 2 Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications (IF: 2.9), 3 The Journal of Chemical Physics (IF: 2.8), 1 Journal of Physics: Condensed matter (IF: 2.6), 1 Proceedings of Machine Learning Research (IF: 2.5), 2 Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2 Physical Review E (IF: 2.5) , 5 Journal of Statistical Mechanics (IF: 2.4), 3 Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (IF: 2.0), 4 Europhysics Letter (IF: 1.8), 1 ACM Transactions on the Web (IF: 2.0)

Citations and bibliometrics:
1158 citations and h-index of 19, according to Google Scholar Citations (GSC) (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=vsLT1BIAAAAJ&hl=en),
682 citations and h-index of 14, according to ISI Web of Knowledge (WOK) (http://www.researcherid.com/rid/C-5038-2014 https://publons.com/researcher/2555749/chiara-cammarota/)

Scientific editorial work:
Referee at Nature Communications, Physical Review Letters, Europhysics Letters, Physical Review E, Journal of Chemical Physics, Journal of Statistical Mechanics, Physical Review Materials
Associate Editor of Journal of Statistical Physics (starting from 2021)
Editor and member of the Program Committee of Mathematical and Scientific Machine Learning (MSML) editions 2020, 2021, 2022 http://www.smartchair.org/hp/MSML2020/TOP/
Editor and member of the Program Committee of of the XXXII IUPAP Conference on Computational Physics (CCP2020) https://ccp2020.complexity-coventry.org/index.php
Guest Editor of the special issue Unifying Concepts in Glass Physics VII J. Stat. Mech. (2020) 104001
Guest Editor of the special issue Random Landscapes and Dynamics in Evolution, Ecology and Beyond in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (expected 2023)

Contributed and invited talks:
Since ~2008, more than 50 scientific talks (of which 25 invited) in international Conferences, Workshops, Symposia and Lab Meetings
e.g. invited talks in 2018/2019 (pre-pandemic):
- Using Physical Insights for Machine Learning University of California Los Angeles (US) November 2019
- 40 years of RSB Sapienza Rome (IT) September 2019
- The problem of ecological diversity The Graduate Center-CUNY New York City (US) April 2019
- American Physical Sociaty (APS) March Meeting Boston (US) March 2019
- At the Crossroad of Physics and Machine Learning KITP Santa Barbara (US) February 2019
- Disorder serendipity: a glassy path to discovery Sapienza Rome September 2018
- Statistical Physics and Machine Learning back together Cargese (FR) August 2018
- High-Dimensional Dynamics The Graduate Center-CUNY New York City (US) April 2018
- Stochastic Models in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Venice (IT) April 2018

Organization of schools, workshops, conferences and programs:
- Rejuvenating Concepts in Glass Physics V , IHP Paris, France, March 30, 2012 (http://lptms.u-psud.fr/workshop/rcigp/)
- Unifying Concepts in Glass Physics VII , Bristol, UK, 10-15 June 2018 (https://ucgp7.wordpress.com)
- Rough Landscapes: From Physics to Algorithms , Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP), Santa Barbara, California, US, Conference 7-11 Jan 2019, (https://www.kitp.ucsb.edu/activities/scape-c19)
- The Rough High-Dimensional Landscape Problem , Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP), Santa Barbara, California, US, two months program: 7 Jan-1 Mar 2019, (https://www.kitp.ucsb.edu/activities/scape19)
- Glassy Systems and Inter-Disciplinary Applications Cargese (Corsica) June 28-July 7 2021
- The Beg Rohu Summer School , French National Sailing School, Saint Pierre Quiberon, Brittany, France (https://www.ipht.fr/Meetings/BegRohu2019/index.html) every year from 2014 to present (except 2020)