Giovanni Petri is a Professor in the Network Science Institute at Northeastern University London, and a Principal Researcher at CENTAI Institute in Turin.
Research focus
Giovanni's main research focus is on the theoretical and empirical analysis of complex systems, with an emphasis on the structural and temporal properties of networks with higher‐order interactions and feedback dynamics.
He broadened his research to include social contagion and team dynamics, the investigation of whole‐brain activation patterns, and the structure of cognitive representations in natural and synthetic neural architectures, with particular reference to their topological structure, merging statistical physics approach, algebraic topology and data analysis.
His current topics of interests are:
i) extending models of cooperating behavioral and biological spreading processes with explicit group interactions with the aim to link them to socio‐economical data;
ii) the dynamical connectivity during resting state and tasks, aiming to build robust quantitative tools to be used as building blocks to develop biomarkers and as guiding principles to reverse‐engineer functional connectivity dynamics, with the ultimate aim of linking them to higher cognitive functions, e.g. control and decision making.