Francesco is a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow working at the University of Nottingham on the mathematics of rare events of processes that exhibit long memory. Prior to this he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Nordic Institute of Theoretical Physics in Sweden and he holds a PhD in Mathematical Sciences from Queen Mary University of London.

He's fascinated by random systems and structures - especially how noise and chaos can lead into rare, ordered patterns - and he loves stochastic modelling. With his work, he would like to show how it is possible to turn rare events into usable signals for learning and control.