Matteo Palassini

   University of Barcelona

 

Background

 

I obtained a PhD in Physics in 2000 from Scuola Normale Superiore (Italy) with a dissertation on "Ground state structure and critical behaviour of spin glasses", in good part completed during an extended stay at University of California, Santa Cruz. I later did postdoctoral research at University of California, San Francisco and Universite' Paris-Sud, (Orsay). I am currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Fundamental Physics at the University of Barcelona.

My non-biological research interests are in the statistical physics of disordered systems, such as Coulomb glasses and constraint satisfaction problems. I am also interested in the physics of protein folding and in stochastic models of genetic and epigenetic regulatory networks.

 

Selected Publications

 

Thomas R. Weikl, Matteo Palassini and Ken A. Dill. “Cooperativity in two-state protein folding kinetics”, Protein Science 13, 822 (2004).

Marc Mézard, Matteo Palassini and Olivier Rivoire. “Landscape of solutions in constraint satisfaction problems”, Physical Review Letters 95, 200202 (2005).

M. Goethe and M.Palassini. “Phase diagram, correlation gap, and critical properties of the Coulomb glass”, Physical Review Letters 103, 045702 (2009). http://arxiv.org/abs/0810.1047.

 

 

 

 

palassini@ub.edu
Phone: +34 934039200
Fax: +34 934021149

Personal website

 

Courses

Molecular Biophysics