Professor Valerio Lucarini

Here at the University of Leicester I am affiliated with the School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences (https://le.ac.uk/computing-and-mathematical-sciences), where I coordinate the research activities in Mathematical Modelling for Science and Engineering.

I am also part of the Institute of the Environmental Futures (https://le.ac.uk/research/institutes/environmental-futures) and of the Center for Artificial Intelligence, Data Analytics, and Modelling (https://le.ac.uk/aidam).

My work has been revolving around the macrotopics below:

1. Linking Climate Variability and Change: Use of response theory for performing climate change projections in climate models of different level of complexity
2. Response Theory for Nonequilibrium Systems: Theoretical advances and numerical testing of linear and nonlinear response formulas for complex systems.
3. Tipping Points and Metastability of the Climate System: Critical transitions in the Earth's climate and noise-induced transitions between competing states defined by a dynamical landscape. 
4. Climate Models Evaluation and the Thermodynamics of Climate: Efficiency & entropy production for Earth's and planetary atmospheres.
5. Extreme Events: Theory and Applications: Development of extreme value theory for chaotic systems and use of large deviation theory for studying persistent extremes in geophysical systems. 
6. Parametrizations for Multiscale Systems: Derivation & implementation of rigorous closures.
7. Dispersion Relations and Sum Rules for Nonlinear Optical Materials: Theoretical establishment and experimental verification of new integral relations for nonlinear optical susceptibilities

All my publications are available via ResearchGate (https://www.researchgate.net/), and Google Scholar (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=8zTKayEAAAAJ). The vast majority of my publications are available in preprint version on ArXiv (https://arxiv.org/) 

Currently supervising Reyk Boerner (expected PhD thesis submission date: February 2025).

See here for past PhD supervisions:

https://www.mathgenealogy.org/id.php?id=235118

We have currently an opening for a PhD position (Deadline: October 23rd 2024)

Title: Exploring multiscale dynamical landscapes and hierarchies of tipping points in the Earth System

Link: https://le.ac.uk/study/research-degrees/funded-opportunities/maths-lucarini

Please enquire if interested in pursuing PhD studies under my supervision; feel free to suggest topics of common interest.

Currently (2024-2025) I am in charge of the Module MA3516 (Mathematical Research Project).

In the past I have been teaching modules in 

- Statistical Mechanics, Dynamical Systems, Topics in Applied Mathematics (University of Reading)

- Dynamical Meteorology, Climate Physics (University of Hamburg)

- Climate Physics, Applied Climatology (University of Bologna)

In the past I have also given short courses for Beijing Normal University, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Centro Euromediterraneo per i Cambiamenti Climatici, Institute of Atmospheric Physics - Chinese Academy of Sciences, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, TERI University, Eötvös Loránd University, among others.

2003 PhD in Physics, University of Eastern Finland

2002 MSc Climate Physics and Chemistry, MIT

1999 Diploma in Physics, Scuola Normale Superiore

1999 Laurea in Physics, University of Pisa