IFISC People: Sandro Meloni

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Sandro Meloni joins IFISC today as a CSIC tenured scientist. 

Dr. Sandro Meloni got his Ph.D. from the University of Rome "Roma Tre" in Italy in 2011. Since then he has been at the Institute for Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems (BIFI) of the University of Zaragoza, in Spain, before as "Juan de la Cierva" and then as "Ramón y Cajal" fellow. His passions include “pizza, snowboarding, and doing research on Complex Systems”. He mainly focuses on Nonlinear Dynamics on Networks with a special interest in Spreading Processes and Evolutionary Games Theory. In his works he combines the theoretical approaches typical of Statistical Physics with numerical simulations and data analysis. 

His research has been published in several international peer-reviewed [EO1] journals including PNAS, Physical Review X, Physical Review Letters and PLoS Computational Biology. In 2017, he was awarded the "Junior Scientific Award" of the Complex Systems Society.