Curriculum Vitae
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Research experience
Oct 2024 - Present day  | Research fellow, Padova Neuroscience Center Supervisors: Prof. Samir Suweis Project: Multimodal analysis and modeling of brain activity. |
Apr 2024 - Aug 2024  | Visiting Ph.D. student Institute of Neuroscience, University of Oregon, United States Computational Neuroscience Lab, with Prof. Luca Mazzucato |
May 2024  | Visiting Ph.D. student Redwood Center For Theoretical Neuroscience University of Berkeley, United States |
Education
Oct 2021 - Sep 2024 | Ph.D in Neuroscience, Padova Neuroscience Center Supervisors: Prof. Samir Suweis and Prof. Manlio De Domenico Project: Perturbation Models and their Role in Understanding Brain Structure and Function. |
Oct 2018 - Apr 2021  | Master's degree in Physics of Data, University of Padova Thesis: Structure-function relation in a stochastic whole-brain model at criticality Advisor: Prof. Samir Suweis Final grade: 110/110 cum laude GPA: 30/30 |
Oct 2019 - Feb 2020  | Erasmus+ scholarship University of Heidelberg, Germany ECTS GPA: A/A |
Oct 2015 - Sep 2018 | Bachelor's degree in Physics, University of Padova Thesis: Advanced automatic analysis of Cloud Chamber images Advisor: Prof. Marco Zanetti Final grade: 108/110 GPA: 28.2/30 |
Work experience
Dec 2017 - Aug 2018  | App developer A4smart s.r.l.s. Venice, Italy |
Aug 2016 - Dec 2017  | Software Engineer Intern Handing s.a.s. Padova, Italy |
Publications
Unraveling the mesoscale organization induced by network-driven processes
Giacomo Barzon, Oriol Artime, Samir Suweis, Manlio De Domenico. PNAS 121 (28).Maximal information at the edge of stability in excitatory-inhibitory neural populations
Giacomo Barzon, Daniel M. Busiello, Giorgio Nicoletti. arXiv:2406.03380 (2024).Prenatal experience with language shapes the brain
Benedetta Mariani, Giorgio Nicoletti, Giacomo Barzon, María Clemencia Ortíz Barajas, Mohinish Shukla, Ramón Guevara, Samir Suweis, Judit Gervain. Science Advances 9 (47).Criticality and network structure drive emergent oscillations in a stochastic whole-brain model
Giacomo Barzon, Giorgio Nicoletti, Benedetta Mariani, Marco Formentin, Samir Suweis. J. Phys. Complex. 3 025010 (2022).Modelling the deceleration of COVID-19 spreading
Giacomo Barzon, Karan Kabbur Hanumanthappa Manjunatha, Wolfgang Rugel, Enzo Orlandini, Marco Baiesi. J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 54 044002.
Talks, presentations and posters
Unraveling the mesoscale organization induced by network-driven processes
Contributed talk at NetSciX 2024, Venice, Italy
Structural Foundations of Brain Criticality: Unraveling the Influence of the Human Connectome
Invited talk at MixNext 2023, Vienna, Austria
Unraveling the mesoscale organization induced by network-driven processes
Contributed talk at NetSci 2023, Vienna, Austria
Quantifying reconfiguration cost from neurophysiological data
Invited talk at Spring Workshop on Physics of Data, Venice, Italy
Approaches to brain controllability
Invited talk at LIPh Spring Workshop 2023, Asiago, Italy
Criticality and network structure drive emergent oscillations in a stochastic whole-brain model
Contributed poster at Bernstein Conference, Berlin, Germany
Brain criticality and structural features of the human connectome
Invited talk at Padova-Monash Connect: Brain connectivity workshop, online
Controllability of brain networks
Invited talk at LIPh Spring Workshop 2022, Asiago, Italy
Attended schools and workshops
- Mediterranean School of Complex Networks, Catania, Italy, 25th - 30th June 2023
- EITN Fall School in Computational Neuroscience, Paris, France, 21st - 30th September 2022
- Cosyne Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, 25th - 28th March 2022
- Spring College on the Physics of Complex Systems, online, 22nd February - 21st March 2021
- International Winter School - “MRInference: from data to knowledge”, online, 15th June - 19th February 2020
Supervision
- Miriam Zara, Un approccio al trasporto ottimale basato sulla meccanica statistica
Bachelor thesis in Physics, University of Padova, Italy, 2023/2024 - Manjodh Singh, Bistabilità e bacini di attrazione nella dinamica neurale
Bachelor thesis in Physics, University of Padova, Italy, 2022/2023 - Tommaso Bertola, Modellizzazione dell’attività neurale nella corteccia cerebrale
Bachelor thesis in Physics, University of Padova, Italy, 2021/2022 - Veronica Bedin, Hidden Markov Models for dimensionality reduction of neural activity
Bachelor thesis in Physics, University of Padova, Italy, 2021/2022
Teaching
- Programmazione, Teaching Assistant
Bachelor Degree in Mathematics, University of Padova, Italy, 2022/2023