Nicola Bertozzi is a research fellow at the University of Pisa. He graduated in Mathematics at the University of Pisa, with a Bachelor's thesis on chaotic motion arising from specific families of Mathematical billiards, and a Master's thesis on the estimation of the level of accuracy in Orbit Determination problems modelled by hyperbolic maps.
He continued his work at the University of Pisa, where he received a PhD in Mathematics. His project investigated the exponential rate of decay of the correlation function for certain families of mixing systems defined on non-compact spaces, such as geodesic flows on unbounded negatively curved surfaces or suspension flows over Markov subshifts with an infinite alphabet of symbols.
His current work investigates the application of classic quantifiers of chaotic motion (Lyapunov exponents, laws of decay of the correlations) to neurophysiological models which exhibit complex behaviour.
