Silvia SCARPETTA | Curriculum

EDUCATION:

1995: Laurea in Fisica (Master of Science in Physics) summa cum Laude at the University "Federico II" Napoli

1999: Doctorate of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Physics at Salerno University, with a thesis on "On-line Learning in Neural Networks", with supervisor prof Maria Marinaro.

CAREER:

-1999: Research Fellowship at Aston University (UK) in Neural Computation Research Group of prof David Saad.

- 2000-2002 Post-doc “Assegno di Ricerca” University of Salerno (IT)

- 2003:Research Fellowship at University College of London (UK) in the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit of UCL.

- Since 1/12/2002 Researcher (ricercatore a tempo indeterminato) in Physics at University of Salerno (Italy)

CURRENT POSITION:

- since 1/3/2020 Professore Associato (Associate professor) at Dept. of Physics ‘E.R.Caianiello’ University of Salerno, Italy

Head of the Lab of Neural Networks ‘Maria Marinaro’ of the University of Salerno

INTERNATIONAL SCHOOLS ATTENDED:

-2001 Institute for Theoretical Physics, Pedagogical Program on Neurophysics: Dynamics of Neural Networks, from biophysics to behavior, 23 July- 5 August 2001, ITP, Univeristy College of Santa Barbara, California, USA.

-1999 Gatsby Neural Computation Course, September 1999, UCL London, U.K.

-1999 ICTP: Neural Information Processing, 3 - 28 May 1999, the Abdus Salam International centre for theoretical physics, Trieste, Italy.

-1996 First summer course of International School on Neural Nets "E. R. Caianiello", July 1996, Erice, Italy

CHAIR OF INTERNATIONAL SCHOOLS AND CONGRESS:

- Organizing commettee of the International Workshop: Complex Collective Dynamics: Brain and beyond, Capri 31 agosto-4 Settembre 2015, http://brain-capri2015.fisica.unisa.it

- Organizing commettee of International Workshop: The Brain: Criticality, Dynamics, Networks and Function September 2-6, 2013 Capri Italy http://brain-capri.fisica.unisa.it/

- Co-Director 12th International School on Neural Nets "E.R. Caianiello": Dynamic Brain, 2007, in Erice 5-12 December 2007 Proceedings published in a LNCS volume by SPRINGER, edited by Yoko Yamaguchi S Scarpetta M. Marinaro.

- Co-chair of 8th International School on Neural Nets "E.R. Caianiello" : Computational Neuroscience: Cortical Dynamics, 2003 Erice, ITALY, Proceedings published by SPRINGER in a LNCS volume edited by Peter Erdi, S.Scarpetta, M Marinaro.

FUNDED RESEARCH PROJECTS:

- 2013 – current Local coordinator of the national project: INFN-BIOPHYS (national coordinator Mario Nicodemi, Unina)

- 2006-2012 Local coordinator of the national project: INFN-TO61: Biological applications of Theoretical Physics Methods” (national coordinator Michele Caselle, Unito).

- 2003-2006 Partecipant of Project INNOVA: "INNOVA Centro regionale di Competenza per lo sviluppo e

trasferimento dell' innovazione applicata ai Beni Culturali", funded by Regione Campania (Misura 3.16 Por Campania 2000-2006) with the EU funds Agenda 2000.

TEACHING:

-I have teached the course "Physics" at master degree in Engeneering (University of Salerno), and the

course "Mathematical Models: Neural Networks" at master degree in Physics, University of Salerno.

-Currently I teach "Physics II" at master degree in Mathematics, and “Complex Systems and Critical Phenomena” at master degree in Physics at University of Salerno.

INVITED AND SELECTED TALKS:

- Invited talk at Workshop on Complex Networks: from socio-economics to biology and brain, Lipari, 13-19 Luglio 2019

-Invited talk at 4th Workshop Advanced Methods in Theoretical Neuroscience, Max Planck institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization 2019

- Invited talk at Excellence Workshop "Dynamical Network States, Criticality and Cortical Function" Delmenhorst, Germany March 25 to 28, 2017

- Talk at CNS*2015 Computational Neuroscience Meeting , PRAGA dal 18 al 23 luglio 2015

- Talk at CNS*2013 Computational Neuroscience Meeting, Paris, France, July 2013

-Talk IBRO 8th World Congress of Neuroscience, firenze, luglio, 2011

-Talk at Bernstein Conference on Computational Neuroscience. Frankfurt am Main, Germany, October 2009 Frontiers in Comput. Neuroscience doi:10.3389/conf.neuro.10.2009.14.136

- Invited Lecture on Computational Neuroscience at BSCS2008 BUDAPEST SEMESTER IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE, Eötvös University, Budapest November 2008

- Invited Talk at Workshop on: Theta Oscillations in the Brain: Neural Mechanisms and Functions, UCL London 6-8 September 2004 By invitation only.

-Talk at NEUROMAT III (Industry Days, Proceedings of the Workshop NeuroMat III, p. 214-228, MIRIAM) Milano 13-14 Sept. 2004

- Invited talk at the International Workshop on Theta Oscillations in the Brain: Neural Mechanisms and Functions, London UCL 2004

-Talk CNS*2003 Computational Neuroscience Meeting, Alicante Spain 2003

- Talk: “Supervised and Unsupervised Analysis Applied to Strombolian E.Q” 14th Italian Workshop on Neural Nets, WIRN VIETRI 2003

-Talk CNS*2002 11th annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, USA 2002

-Talk at NIPS Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, Denver Colorado USA December 2000

-Talk `Dynamics of on line learning in radial basis function neural networks', Italian Workshop on Neural Nets WIRN, Vietri 1999

-Talk `Natural Gradient Matrix Momentum', ICANN*99 Int. Conf. on Artificial Neural Networks, Edimburgo (UK)

-Talk ‘A new incremental strategy for function approximation by Radial Basis Function Neural Network' WIRN Workshop on Neural Nets, Vietri sul Mare 1998

-Talk ‘An incremental local Radial Basis Function Network’ ESANN*98 6th European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Bruges, Belgium, 1998

EDITORIAL BOARDS:

-Associate Editorial Board of "American Journal of Neuroscience Research” http://ivyunion.org/index.php/ajnsr/about/editorialTeam

-Topical Advisory Panel of MDPI “Entropy” ISSN 1099-4300

-Editorial Board of “Frontiers in System Neuroscience” ISSN: 1662-5137

-Referee for: Physical Review Letters, Physical Review E, Neural Networks, Jour. Computational Neurosc., Physica A, PLOS ONE.

RESEARCH:

My research interests are Statistical Physics of disordered systems, Biological Modelling, Plasticity Learning and Neural Modlling of associative Memory, Brain Dynamics, Critical Phenonema in the Brain, Artificial Neural Networks, Machine Learning, Supervised and unsupervised neural strategies for data mining. Neuromorphic neural networks.

I have published in high impact international review as: PRL (Impact Factor 7.3), Hippocampus (Impact Factor 4.5), PLoS ONE (IF 3.7), Neural Networks (IF 2.7), BSSA Bullet. of Seism. Society of America (IF 2.39), Phys. Review E (IF 2.2) e Jour. Comput. Neurosc. (IF=2.1)