I am a researcher at the Department of Mathematics and Physics of University of Salento (Lecce, Italy).

Areas of interest

• Random dynamical systems
• Critical transitions in complex systems

My previous work has been on:

• Hamiltonian perturbation theory
• Piece-wise smooth dynamical systems

Most recent publications

• A Random Dynamical Systems Perspective on Stochastic Resonance (with J.S.W Lamb, M. Rasmussen and Y. Sato), to appear in Nonlinearity.
• An Operatorial Description of Desertification (with F. Bagarello and F. Oliveri), SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics 76.2 (2016): 479-499.
• The role of local facilitation and colonization rate (with R.Corrado and C. Pennetta), Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation 22.1 (2015): 3-12.
• Desertification Transition in Semi-arid Ecosystems and Directed Percolation (with R.Corrado and C. Pennetta), In ISCS 2014: Interdisciplinary Symposium on Complex Systems, pp. 99-107, Springer International Publishing, 2015.
• Early warning signals of desertification transitions in semiarid ecosystems (with R.Corrado and C. Pennetta), Physical Review E 90.6 (2014): 062705.