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Hire Dr. Giovanni D.

United Kingdom

Profile Summary

My experience in research has always been driven by a genuine scientific curiosity. I started my career in particle physics by exploring the sub-nuclear interactions, then I moved to the field of stochastic thermodynamics , where I studied non-equilibrium processes and the energetic cost of information processing. I am currently a research associate at the Centre for developmental neurobiology at King's College London, where I collaborate with biologists to understand how environmental information is processed by the nervous system. We combine cutting-edge imaging technologies to study the activity of neurons in model organisms such as the C. elegans and the Zebrafish and apply computational methodologies from image processing to information theory and mathematical modelling to understand how neurons cooperate to trigger behaviour.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ☆ Biostatistics
• ☆ Neurobiology
• ☆ Data Analysis
• ☆ Image Processing
• ☆ Computer Simulation/Computational Modeling
• ☆ Machine Learning
• ☆ Statistics
• ☆ Statistical Mechanics
• ☆ Thermodynamics
• ☆ Particle Physics
• ☆ Theoretical Physics
• ☆ Mathematical Models

Services

• Consulting
• Data & AI
• Product Development

Work Experience

MSCA postdoctoral fellow

Institut Pasteur

April 2020 - Present

Research Associate

King's College London

March 2014 - Present

King's College London

- March 2020

Postdoc

Université du Luxembourg

January 2012 - February 2014

Postdoc

CEA Saclay

December 2010 - January 2012

Education

PhD in Theoretical Physics (Physics department)

Università degli Studi di Milano Dipartimento di Fisica

October 2007 - November 2010

MD in Theoretical Physics

Università degli Studi di Milano Dipartimento di Fisica

October 2005 - October 2007

Bachelor in Physics

Università degli Studi di Milano Dipartimento di Fisica

October 2002 - October 2005

Certifications

• Certification details not provided.

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Giovanni Diana, Athene Knüfer, Gregory S. Walsh, Jonathan Clarke, Sarah Guthrie(2020). Cadherins regulate nuclear topography and function of developing ocular motor circuitry . eLife. 9. p. 1--25. eLife Sciences Publications

Giovanni Diana, Alfredo Llorca, Gabriele Ciceri, Robert Beattie, Fong Kuan Wong, Eleni Serafeimidou-Pouliou, Marian Fernández-Otero, Carmen Streicher, Sebastian J. Arnold, Martin Meyer, et al.(2019). A stochastic framework of neurogenesis underlies the assembly of neocortical cytoarchitecture . eLife. 8. eLife Sciences Publications

Giovanni Diana, Thomas T. J. Sainsbury, Martin Patrick Meyer(2019). Bayesian inference of neuronal assemblies . PLoS Computational Biology. 15. (10). p. 1--31.

Giovanni Diana, Shiqi Sheng, Tim Herpich, Massimiliano Esposito(2019). Thermodynamics of Majority-Logic Decoding in Information Erasure . Entropy. 21. (3). Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)

Giovanni Diana, Diana Passaro, Alessandro Di Tullio, Ander Abarrategi, Kevin Rouault-Pierre, Katie Foster, Linda Ariza-McNaughton, Beatriz Montaner, Probir Chakravarty, Leena Bhaw, et al.(2017). Increased Vascular Permeability in the Bone Marrow Microenvironment Contributes to Disease Progression and Drug Response in Acute Myeloid Leukemia . CANCER CELL. 32. (3). p. 324–341. Cell Press

Giovanni Diana, Dhaval S Patel, Eugeni V. Entchev, Mei Zhan, Hang Lu, QueeLim Ch'ng(2017). Quantification of Information Encoded by Gene Expression Levels During Lifespan Modulation Under Broad-range Dietary Restriction in C. elegans . Journal of Visualized Experiments. 126. p. 1--12. MYJoVE Corporation

(2017). Quantification of Information Encoded by Gene Expression Levels During Lifespan Modulation Under Broad-range Dietary Restriction in C. elegans . Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE.

(2017). Genetic control of encoding strategy in a food-sensing neural circuit . eLife.

Giovanni Diana, Dhaval S Patel, Eugeni Velikov Entchev, Mei Zhan, Lu Hang, QueeLim Ch'ng(2017). Genetic control of encoding strategy in a food-sensing neural circuit . eLife. 6. p. 1--18. eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd

Passaro, D., Di Tullio, A., Abarrategi, A., Rouault-Pierre, K., Foster, K., Ariza-McNaughton, L., Montaner, B., Chakravarty, P., Bhaw, L., Diana, G., et al.(2017). Increased Vascular Permeability in the Bone Marrow Microenvironment Contributes to Disease Progression and Drug Response in Acute Myeloid Leukemia . Cancer Cell.

Diana, G., Esposito, M.(2014). Mutual entropy production in bipartite systems . Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment. 2014. (4).

Bern, Z., Diana, G., Dixon, L.J., Cordero, F.F., Höche, S., Ita, H., Kosower, D.A., Maître, D., Ozeren, K.J.(2013). Missing energy and jets for supersymmetry searches . Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology. 87. (3).

Diana, G., Bagci, G.B., Esposito, M.(2013). Finite-time erasing of information stored in fermionic bits . Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics. 87. (1).

Bern, Z., Diana, G., Dixon, L.J., Febres Cordero, F., Forde, D., Gleisberg, T., Höche, S., Ita, H., Kosower, D.A., Maître, D., et al.(2012). NLO vector boson production with light jets . Nuovo Cimento della Societa Italiana di Fisica C. 35. (3). p. 25-28.

Bern, Z., Diana, G., Dixon, L.J., Cordero, F.F., Höche, S., Kosower, D.A., Ita, H., Maître, D., Ozeren, K.(2012). Four-jet production at the Large Hadron Collider at next-to-leading order in QCD . Physical Review Letters. 109. (4).

Bern, Z., Diana, G., Dixon, L.J., Febres Cordero, F., Höche, S., Ita, H., Kosower, D.A., Maître, D., Ozeren, K.J.(2011). Driving missing data at next-to-leading order . Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology. 84. (11).

Bern, Z., Diana, G., Dixon, L.J., Cordero, F.F., Forde, D., Gleisberg, T., Höche, S., Ita, H., Kosower, D.A., Maître, D., et al.(2011). Left-handed W bosons at the LHC . Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology. 84. (3).

Diana, G., Rojo, J., Ball, R.D.(2010). High-energy resummation of direct photon production at hadronic colliders . Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics. 693. (4). p. 430-437.

Diana, G.(2010). High-energy resummation in direct photon production . Nuclear Physics B. 824. (1-2). p. 154-167.

Diana, G., Manini, N., Salasnich, L.(2006). Expansion of a fermi cloud in the BCS-BEC crossover . Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics. 73. (6).