Raffaella Burioni is Full Professor of Theoretical Physics in the Department of Mathematics, Physics and Computer Science at the University of Parma.
She holds an MS in Physics with distinction from the 2nd University of Rome and a PhD in Theoretical Physics from the University of Rome 'La Sapienza'. She worked as a post-doc at the Theoretical Physics Laboratory of the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris and then at the Physics Department of the University of Milan and at the INFM, the National Institute for the Physics of Matter.
She has authored more than 140 publications in international journals, including PNAS and Nature Communications, three invited review articles and 1 patent. She has presented her work at numerous national and international Conferences. Among the most recent and relevant ones are the Keynote Lecture at the ECCS Conference in Lucca in 2014, the Keynote Lecture at Complenet 2014 in Bologna, the Keynote Talk at the 47th Meco Conference in Statistical Physics in Erice in 2022, and the invited talks at the CSP 2013 NATO Conference in Samarkand, at the KITPC Conference on "Small systems, non equilibrium Fluctuations and Anomalous Dynamics" at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics in Beijing in 2013, at the Max Planck Institute in Dresden in 2013, at the StatPhys 2016 conference in Lyon, at the CONES conference at King's College in London in 2018, at the 35th Marian Smoluchowski Symposium on Statistical Physics in Krakow in 2022, at the Conference "Rare events in physics and climate” at the Ben-Gurion University in Israel in 2022 and at the APS March Meeting of the American Physical Society in Las Vegas in 2023.
She serves on many international panels for the management of research and on the Editorial Boards for Physical Review E, for JSTAT and for Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical.
She has twice been awarded the Enrico Persico Prize by the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. In 2014 she was named a Fellow of the Institute for Scientific Interchange - ISI and in 2018 she was nominated an Oustanding Referee by the American Physical Society. Since 2020 she is a Fellow of the European Centre for Living Technology in Venice.
In 2019 she was part of the founding group of the Italian Society of Statistical Physics (SIFS), of which she was elected Vice President.
She is Chair of the Non-Linear and Statistical Physics Division of the European Physical Society (EPS).
Her expertise is in equilibrium and non-equilibrium statistical physics, with particular interests in graph theory, complex networks, random walks and stochastic processes. She is also interested in interdisciplinary applications of statistical physics, in particular to biological systems, learning and neuroscience.
