Curriculum Vitae

Here you can find my CV, which can also be downloaded as a pdf file.

Research experience

Mar 1st 2021 - Present day	Postdoctoral researcher University of California, San Diego Department of Physics Supervisor: Terence Hwa
Apr 1st - Sep 30th 2019	Fellow of the Department of Physics Harvard University Department of Physics Supervisors: Andrea Giometto, Andrew Murray, David Nelson

Education

Oct 1st 2017 - Dec 16th 2020	Ph.D in Physics, University of Padua Thesis title: Two improved approaches to the study of competition in microbial communities Tutor: Flavio Seno Supervisor: Amos Maritan Co-supervisor: Samir Suweis
Oct 1st 2015 - Sep 26th 2017	M.Sc. in Physics, University of Padua Thesis title: A physics approach to ecosystem dynamics Advisor: Amos Maritan Final grade: 110/110 cum laude
Oct 1st 2012 - Jul 22nd 2015	B.Sc. in Physics, University of Padua Thesis title: Curvature effect on patterning dynamics on spherical membranes Advisor: Enzo Orlandini Final grade: 108/110

Publications

Leonardo Pacciani-Mori, Samir Suweis, Amos Maritan, Andrea Giometto, Constrained proteome allocation affects coexistence in models of competitive microbial communities, The ISME Journal (2021). DOI: 10.1038/s41396-020-00863-0.

Leonardo Pacciani, Flavio Seno, Amos Maritan, Samir Suweis, Two improved approaches to the study of competition in microbial communities, Padua Digital University Archive (2020).

Leonardo Pacciani-Mori, Andrea Giometto, Samir Suweis, Amos Maritan, Dynamic metabolic adaptation can promote species coexistence in competitive microbial communities, PLOS Computational Biology (2020). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007896.

Leonardo Pacciani, Amos Maritan, Samir Suweis, A physics approach to ecosystem dynamics, Padua Digital University Archive (2017).

Leonardo Pacciani, Enzo Orlandini, Curvature effect on patterning dynamics on spherical membranes, Padua Digital University Archive (2015).

Attended conferences, workshops and schools

Stochastic Models in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, European Center for Living Technology, June 22nd - 25th, 2021.

Workshop on Limits to Diversity Assembly, International Centre for Theoretical Physics, January 19th - 21st, 2021.

Forum on Microbial Metabolism, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, January 14th - March 18th, 2021.

Winter School on Quantitative Systems Biology: Quantitative Approaches in Ecosystem Ecology, International Centre for Theoretical Physics, November 30th - December 18th, 2020.

English for Academic Writing, University of Bologna, Forlì campus, January 7th - 10th, 2020.

5th Italian Conference of Physics Students, University of Milan, Department of Physics, March 6th - 10th, 2019.

The physics of complex systems IV: from Padova to the rest of the world and back, University of Padua, Department of Physics, December 20th, 2018.

Conference on Complex Systems 2018, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, September 23rd - 28th, 2018.

104th Congress of the Italian Physical Society, University of Calabria, Department of Physics, September 17th - 21st, 2018.

4th Italian Conference of Physics Students, University of Pisa, Department of Physics, April 20th - 23rd, 2018.

Stochastic Models in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, April 5th - 7th, 2018.

Spring College on the Physics of Complex Systems, International Centre for Theoretical Physics, February 19th - March 16th, 2018.

32nd International Conference of Physics Students, University of Turin, Department of Physics, August 7th - 13th, 2017.

3rd Italian Conference of Physics Students, University of Bari, Department of Physics, May 11th - 13th, 2017.

Venice meeting on fluctuations in small complex systems III, Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, October 3rd - 6th, 2016.

2nd Italian Conference of Physics Students, University of Turin, Department of Physics, April 22nd - 24th, 2016.

Organized conferences, workshops and schools

Sei Spritz Facili, University of Padua, Department of Physics, October 2016 - May 2017
- Series of six lectures covering the areas over which research is carried out in the Department. Activity of the Padua Local Committee of the Italian Association of Physics Students

Honors and awards

Best contributed talk, during the 4th Italian Conference of Physics Students
Best poster, during the 5th Italian Conference of Physics Students

Strategie metaboliche adattive: una risposta (apparentemente) semplice ed efficace a molti problemi in ecologia e microbiologia

March 09, 2019

Contributed talk at University of Milan, Department of Physics, Milan, Italy

Adaptive metabolic strategies: an (apparently) simple and effective answer to many challenging problems in ecology and microbiology

December 20, 2018

Invited talk at Department of Physics, University of Padua, Padua, Italy

Teaching

Tutorial on nonlinear dynamics

$\LaTeX$ for dummies: guida di sopravvivenza per fisici

Service and memberships

Member of the Association of PhD students and graduates in Italy, 22nd October 2019 - Present day
Vicepresident of the Italian Association of Physics Students, 20th October 2018 - 30th September 2019
Member of the Complex Systems Society, 23rd September 2018 - present day
Secretary of the Italian Association of Physics Students, 1st October 2017 - 30th September 2019
President of the Padua Local Committee of the Italian Association of Physics Students, 2nd May 2016 - 30th September 2017
Member of the Italian Association of Physics Students, 26th February 2016 - 30th September 2020

Leonardo Pacciani-Mori

Curriculum Vitae

Research experience

Education

Publications

Attended conferences, workshops and schools

Organized conferences, workshops and schools

Honors and awards

Talks

Species coexistence and proteome allocation in competitive microbial communities

Species coexistence and proteome allocation in competitive microbial communities

Constrained proteome allocation affects coexistence in models of competitive microbial communities

Adaptive consumer-resource models can explain diauxic shifts and the violation of the Competitive Exclusion Principle