Professore Ordinario PHYS-02/A

Lucilla de Arcangelis received the Ph.D. in Physics from the Boston University. She was visiting
scientist at the University of Cologne and the CEA in Saclay. In 1990 she was awarded a CNRS
(CR1) position at the ESPCI in Paris and in 1993 a Faculty position in Italy. Her research interests
are focused on critical phenomena and span from percolation, fractals, cellular automata to spin
glass, models for fracture and gelation. Recently, she has devoted her research on statistical
properties of earthquake and solar flare occurrence and, in the last twenty years, on the critical
features of spontaneous neuronal activity. She is associate Editor of JSTAT and Physical Review E.
She was nominated APS Fellow in 2020 for the Computational Physics Division where she was
elected in 2022 Member at large of the Executive Committee. She was Chair of the C3 – Statistical
Physics IUPAP Commission for the term 2023-24. She is presently President of the Italian Society
of Statistical Physics (SIFS).