Dr Alessandro Lonardi
Postdoctoral Researcher
School of Mathematical Sciences
Queen Mary University of London
Research
Complex Systems, Statistical Physics, Machine Learning
Interests
My research focuses on complex systems. I am particularly passionate about researching society, technological infrastructures, and their interaction. My goal is to produce research that informs policy decisions and contributes to a better world.
Currently, I am working on power grids and statistical physics for the UKRI project Stability of the South African Power Grid: A data-driven statistical physics approach. In the engineering domain, I have also studied urban mobility. Alongside application-oriented research, I am fond of fundamental research topics related to complex systems, such as Bayesian inference and generative models. In industry, I worked on explainable machine learning for scientific discovery.
For updated information and material such as publications, slides and codes, see:
aleable.github.io
Research Group
News
December 2025
15 December 2025
Location: Arts 2 Lecture Hall and Foyer
Join us for the UK Christmas Bioenergetics Meeting on 15th December!
Plenary Lecture: Redox Regulation of Photosynthetic Electron Transport by Anja Krieger (CEA, Sacley, France).
Have a look at the preliminary programme to find out more. As usual, there is no registration fee.
The ... [more]
11 December 2025
Prof. Federico Ardila will be joining the School of Mathematical Sciences, QMUL in January 2026 as part of the Faculty of Science and Engineering Talent scheme. Ardila is a Colombian mathematician whose work in matroid theory lies at the intersection of combinatorics with geometry, algebra, topology, and applications.
Apart from his ... [more]
9 December 2025
As part of a team of collaborators, Dr. Natasha Blitvic recently published an article at the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America entitled "Fluid flow generates bacterial conjugation hot spots by increasing the rate of shear-driven cell–cell encounters". The study uses probabilistic ... [more]
8 December 2025
Physicists at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), together with international collaborators, have found evidence of the decay of Higgs bosons to muons. Muons are particles typically found in cosmic rays and have a low mass, and because of this the Standard Model of particle physics predicts that this decay ... [more]
5 December 2025
Professor Nallanathan has been named a Highly Cited Researcher in Computer Science for the fourth consecutive year. He is one of just 119 researchers recognised globally in this field, and one of only 12 listed from the UK.
Congratulations to Professor Arumugam Nallanathan, founding head of the Communication Systems Research (CSR) Group ... [more]
3 December 2025
Dr. Nicolás Hernández, Lecturer in Statistics at our Centre, has been awarded a Scheme 3 grant by the London Mathematical Society. The grant will support the creation of a new Joint Research Group focused on "Statistical Modelling and Inference for Functional Data Analysis".
Functional Data Analysis is a rapidly ... [more]
3 December 2025
Our centre members Dr. Amaranta Membrillo Solis and Prof. John Moriarty are co-organising a two-day workshop in the School of Mathematical Sciences on the 12th and 13th January, titled "Geometric Methods in Probability".
The first event on Monday 12th January will consist of a London Probability Day (LPD), an one-day ... [more]
2 December 2025
Researchers at the Centre for Electronics at Queen Mary University of London have reported a fresh theoretical result that settles a long-standing question in materials physics. Their new study shows that a key set of calculations used to test whether a crystal could exhibit negative static electric susceptibility remains stable ... [more]
2 December 2025
The UKRI Engineering and Physical Sciences Council (EPSRC) has awarded an £84,036 research grant for exploring Metastability in generative diffusion models to Adrian Baule, Reader in Applied Mathematics in the Centre for Complex Systems. The project will target the foundations of AI image, audio, and video generators such as DALL-E, Stable ... [more]
November 2025
30 November 2025
A team from Queen Mary University of London - School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences has been taking part in a global project that aims to sequence the genomes of all 11,665 European butterfly and moth species.
'Project Psyche' involves researchers, taxonomists, policymakers and citizen scientists from all over the world, ... [more]
30 November 2025
To celebrate Disabilty History Month we introduce one of our PhD students: Daniel Gill.
"I am a PhD Student primarily based in the Cognitive Science Research Group within the School of Electronical Engineering and Computer Science, though I am also associated with the Centre for Brain and Behaviour.
My own ... [more]
26 November 2025
Queen Mary is proud to launch a new specialist bioengineering programme, MSc Organ-on-a-Chip Technologies, now open for September 2026 applications.
Delivered within the renowned Centre for Predictive In Vitro Models, the course provides advanced training in next-generation organ-on-a-chip, tissue engineering and in vitro technologies.
Following the Government's recently announced strategy to ... [more]
26 November 2025
Our Centre currently hosts a vibrant community of young researchers with 23 PhD students working under the supervision of the Centre's academics. But what career paths do our PhD students follow after graduation? In this page, you can find information about our recent PhD graduates, including the topic of their theses, ... [more]
24 November 2025
Researchers at Queen Mary University of London have developed and rigorously qualified a new organ-on-a-chip model that replicates the early stages of breast cancer bone metastasis, offering a promising alternative to animal studies. The microfluidic system brings together osteocytes, osteoclasts and breast cancer cells in a dynamic tri-culture, but its ... [more]
19 November 2025
A group of high-profile guests visited Queen Mary's Centre for Predictive In Vitro Models on Tuesday 11th November, to explore the university's cutting-edge organ-on-a-chip facilities.
The delegation included musician and animal advocate Will Young, a Director and Toxicologist from Lush cosmetics, and representatives from the charity Animal Aid. The group ... [more]
18 November 2025
Many congratulations to Biagio Lucini, who has given the Higgs Compositeness update talk at Lattice 2025. The 42nd International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory (Lattice 2025) is an annual conference that brings together scientists from around the world who specialise in the numerical evaluation of quantum field theories. This year it was ... [more]
18 November 2025
Together with colleagues from the US and Germany, Reem Yassawi, senior lecturer in the Centre for Complex Systems, has applied successfully to host a workshop at the Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach (MFO, Oberwolfach Research Institute for Mathematics). MFO workshops are prestigious gatherings of small groups of invited experts, who spend a ... [more]
17 November 2025
On 2-7 December, several CMAI researchers will participate at the 39th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2025), taking place in San Diego. NeurIPS is a prestigious annual academic conference and non-profit foundation that fosters the exchange of research in artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and computational neuroscience.
... [more]
17 November 2025
We have launched a major international research initiative to strengthen the safety, resilience, and sustainability of offshore aquaculture, backed by a £998,330 grant from Lloyd's Register Foundation and under the leadership of Dr Avital. As demand for seafood rises globally, offshore fish farming is increasingly seen as a vital solution, yet ... [more]
14 November 2025
We're proud to share that researchers from the Antenna and Electromagnetics Group at QMUL have received a major international honour. Dr. Rostyslav Dubrovka and Prof. Stuart Gregson, working with Dr.-Ing. Marc Dirix from RWTH Aachen University, earned first place in the 2025 Best Technical Paper competition at the 47th Annual ... [more]
