About the team

PI (spokesperson)

Co-PI

Prof. Timoteo CARLETTI

University of Namur (UNamur)

Namur Institute for Complex Systems, naXys

Prof. Christian HAGENDORF

Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain)

Institut de recherche en mathématique et physique, IRMP

Prof. Philippe RUELLE

Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain)

Institut de recherche en mathématique et physique, IRMP

Timoteo CARLETTI

Timoteo Carletti is Full Professor at the Department of mathematics and at the Namur Institute for Complex Systems, naXys, at UNamur. After obtained a master in physics at the university of Florence (Italy), he received his PhD in mathematics at the University of Florence (Italy) and at “Institut de Mécanique Céleste et de calcul des Ephémérides” (IMCCE) in Paris (France). After several postdoctoral research stays - including Paris XI (Paris, France), IMPA (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), "Scuola Normale Superiore" (Pisa, Italy) - in 2005 he moved to Belgium where he was hired at the University of Namur as lecturer, then as Professor (2008), and finally as Full Professor (2011) in the Department of applied Mathematics. In 2010 he was among the creators of the Namur Center for Complex Systems (naXys) of which he assumed the leadership from 2010 to 2014.

His current research interests lie in the study of dynamical systems defined on top of complex networks. He is interested in studying conditions for the emergence of synchronization in systems interacting via networks or higher-order networks. He also obtained several results concerning the onset of Turing patterns for reaction-diffusion systems defined on networks or higher-order networks.

Christian HAGENDORF

Christian Walmsley Hagendorf is a Professor at the Institute of Research for Mathematics and Physics (IRMP) at UCLouvain. He studied physics at the Martin-Luther-Universität Halle Wittenberg (Germany), the Université Pierre and Marie Curie Paris 6, and the École Normale Supérieure Paris (France). After receiving his PhD degree from Université Pierre and Marie Curie Paris 6 in 2009, he has held postdoctoral positions at the University of Virginia (United States) and the Université de Genève (Switzerland), and then joined IRMP in 2013. His current research focuses on exactly solvable models in low-dimensional statistical mechanics, such as the six- and eight-vertex models, quantum integrable spin chains and their relations with enumerative combinatorics.

Philippe RUELLE

Former research interests : modular invariance in conformal field theory, formulation of quantum mechanics on p-adic fields, W-algebras and Hamiltonian reductions of WZWN theories.
Current research interests : critical lattice statistical models (sandpile models, dimer model, spanning trees, combinatorics of tiling problems, arctic phenomena, random walks, discrete fermions) and their description by conformal field theories (in particular logarithmic conformal theories).