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Pierpaolo Vivo studied Physics at the University of Parma, graduating in Theoretical Physics cum laude in 2005 under the supervision of Enrico Onofri. He then moved to Brunel University, where he obtained his PhD in 2008 with Gernot Akemann, focusing on applications of random matrix theory. Following his doctoral studies, he was awarded a three-year Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy, where he worked in the Condensed Matter Statistical Physics group led by Vladimir Kravtsov and collaborated with Antonello Scardicchio and Matteo Marsili on various applications of Random Matrix Theory in statistical mechanics and stability in financial markets. Since September 2014, he has been a permanent member of the Disordered Systems group at King's College London, where he continues his research on the applications of Random Matrix Theory to complex systems in condensed matter, as well as interdisciplinary approaches using statistical mechanics for socio-economic issues.
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